Evidence from Gregore Cojamaul and Thomas Rumbold.
Scope & Content:
The evidence concerns the established methods of the inland trade. Cojamaul's evidence also includes an account of his imprisonment on Mr Verelst's orders.
It seems likely that this may have been an early hearing, since most of the resolutions are administrative, being requests that the Company should produce various papers.
Statement and interrogation of Dudley concerning a letter agreed in the Secret Committee prior to Clive's arrival in India.
Scope & Content:
The document is highly abbreviated. The letter apparently was in the Company cypher and there are references to sending it to "Mr W" [Watts?]. It seems probable that it related to the inland trade.
Further evidence from Clive and evidence from Mr Sykes.
Scope & Content:
The evidence concerns the grant of Clive's jagir and the fate of the jewels deposited with the Company by Mir Jafar as security for the payment of the sums promised by him under the treaty. The Committee also ordered the production of the proceedings of the Board at Calcutta, an account of the bi...