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Mss Eur G37/10/2

Record Id:
040-000800452
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
036-000800445
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000286.0x0000da
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G37/10/2
Title:
Miscellaneous documents, including financial papers, intelligence and treatises on military and Company subjects.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Project / Collection:
India Office Private Papers
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-000799670
036-000800445
040-000800452
Is part of:
Mss Eur G37 : The Clive Collection, comprising the papers of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774), Governor of Bengal 1757-1760…
Mss Eur G37/10 : Incoming letters on military business, accounts, official letters and Company minutes and records of domestic financial affairs…

 

Mss Eur G37/10/2 : Miscellaneous documents, including financial papers, intelligence and treatises on military and Company subjects.
Contains:
Mss Eur G37/10/2 f.1 : Bond for 4000 Arcot Rupees to be paid to Clive by Dawsonne Drake.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 f.2 : Account of charges due at Trichinopoly signed by Clive.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 f.3 : Receipt, signed by L Moses, for 50,000 rupees from Clive to be invested in diamonds.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 f.4 : Note, signed "J.W." alerting Clive to the Council's intentions regarding a military expedition.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 f.5 : Summary of intelligence and news gained from the Captain of the Danish ship Queen Sophia Magdalena which arrived in the…
Mss Eur G37/10/2 ff.6-7 : Notes of the terms of the charters granted to the Company in 1753, 1757 and 1758.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 f.8 : Note to unspecified "Gentlemen" concerning a proposed expedition.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 f.9 : Note of protest signed by W. Tildeman, Notary Public, recording the non-payment of a note of hand due to Clive by Major…
Mss Eur G37/10/2 f.10 : Note from Mr Horl to Mr Crisp concerning knee and shoe buckles.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 f.11 : Copy of a petition addressed to Mir Jafar by Hugh Baillie.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 ff.12-13 : Copy of a translation of an account of the sums of money received by Mr Johnstone between 1762 and the beginning of 1765.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 ff.14-15 : Specimen indenture for creating commissions in the Company army.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 ff.16-29 : Treatise "on the advantages that the Company would reap from have settlements on the two extremities of the Island…
Mss Eur G37/10/2 ff.30-35 : Copies of correspondence between Isaac Sage and Mr A. Smeaton.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 ff.36-49 : Article or possibly the text of a speech concerning the need for expansion of the Company's military establishment to…
Mss Eur G37/10/2 ff.50-51 : Lists of persons recommended by Clive, the army ranks to which they were recommended and that which they were given.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 f.52 : Letter from P. Weaderburn to an unidentified recipient concerning the ship Dodely.
Mss Eur G37/10/2 f.53 : Note in Clive's handwriting concerning the fortification of a prison.

 

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Hierarchy:
032-000799670[0010]/036-000800445[0002]/040-000800452
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 file containing 53 folios
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1750
End Date:
1774
Date Range:
15 Aug 1750-[March] 1774
Era:
CE
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Former External References:
Mss Eur G37/Box 10 File 2
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)