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Transcripts 1763, of the official correspondence between Clive, as Governor of Bengal, and the native Indian rulers from 16 July to 3 Dec. 1759 similar in content to CC2.

Incomplete series of volumes of transcripts, 1763, of the official correspondence between Clive, as governor of Bengal, and the native Indian rulers from 1758 to 1760. Collectively they provide an important source material for the country's internal affairs, Clive's relations with its leaders and his first term as governor. Much of the correspondence relates to Anglo- French- Indian relations, wars, rebellions and infighting between Indian rulers and to the collection of revenues for the East India Company.

Transcripts, 1763, of letters (and other documents), 1756-1760, from Clive to his relations (except for a cousin who was with him in India) and others in Europe relating to events in India and personal business matters. including letters from Clive at Bombay, Calcutta, Fort Gheria and camp near Chandernagore to ‘Honourable Sir’ [his father] referring to the capture of Gheria [Feb. 1756] (f. 1v) and Chandernagore [March 1757] (f. 2v), the Battle of Plassey [June 1757] (ff. 2v-3r), and his ambitions to be Governor General of India (f. 2r); to Mr Justice Clive [Clive's cousin, Edward, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas] concerning the purchase for him of an estate ‘60 miles from London’; to his agents/bankers in London and Sir Joshua Van Neck regarding financial affairs including negotiations for bills of exchange on the Dutch East India Company (with related correspondence between Sir Joshua Van Neck and John Vynantz, Amsterdam, and minutes of meetings of his attorneys); letters to and from George Clive (Clive's cousin who was with him in India) relating to financial matters and Clive's affairs in India; and accounts of sums realised on Dutch assignats.

Letters sent mainly by Clive within India (but including some from H. S. [Henry Strachey, his secretary] during his third and final period there including his second governorship of Bengal, 1765-1767. The wide range of subject matter provides information about the country's internal politics, the civil and military aspects of Clive's duties as governor and various other matters including Clive's own private concerns (e.g. his interest in diamonds), the personal fortunes of company servants, and the Batta mutiny and the ensuing court martials, April-August, 1766, including the arrest, trial and court martial of the mutiny's instigator, Sir Robert Fletcher.

Duplicates of ED3/1.

Original and fair copy rentals, 1773-1778, of one fourth part of an estate in Okehampton purchased by Clive from Mr. John Hippisley Cox in Michaelmas 1773.

Draft/incomplete versions, 1764, of entries in CF2/2 and CF8/2, and drafts, 1769-1774, of entries recorded in the journals CF2/10-14.

A draft survey and a valuation of the Usk/Trelleck estate, [c. 1770].

A series of duplicate rentals, 1772-1776, which, to a greater or lesser degree, are duplicates of those in ED1.

Duplicates, 1763, of the transcripts of sections 1-6 in CC2.

Lists of Company servants and European civilians in Bengal in 1766.

A manuscript copy, [c. 1765], of the charter of 8 Jan. 1753 (26 George 11) establishing courts of justice in the East Indies concluding with (pp 75-80) a special reference to the Calcutta court in the form of a ‘Table to the Charter so far as Relates to the Mayors Court’.

Lists of existing and proposed military establishments for 1763 and [c. 1765].

Estimate of monthly receipts and disbursements, Jan. –July 1775, mainly interest payments and annuities.

Letters of both a public and private nature (but mainly the former) sent by Clive at Calcutta to Europe during his second overnorship of Bengal. In the main the letters contain references to the East India Company's affairs in India and at home with regard to its revenues, the grant to the Company of the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, the trade in salt, betel nut and tobacco, Clive's civil and military reforms and his settlement with Shuja-ud-daula, the Nawab of Oudh. Clive also gives his frank views on the Company directorship (p. 40), individual directors e.g. Laurence Sulivan in whose defeat at the election of directors in 1765 he could not 'but rejoice exceedingly' (p. 16). and of Mr[william] Sumner, a member of his Select Committee in Calcutta as his proposed successor in Bengal (pp. 6-8). Other matters discussed include Clive's financial and domestic affairs including passing references to the refitting of the house at Berkeley Square and repairs to Walcot.

A field book [c. 1770], containing references to lands in the lordships of Usk and Trelleck. It gives the reference number, name, location and acreage of the property and the name of the holder of the tenure.

An account book, 1760-1761, of payments totalling over £900 made to George Smith Bradshaw for furnishing Clive's houses (not identified) but probably his town houses, including that in Berkley Square. The accounts, in the form of an inventory, record the furnishings and fittings room by room and are receipted for £800 by G. S. Bradshaw on 8th Aug. 1761. The work and costs involved are described in a separate ‘Jobbing Account’ (pp. 11-14).

Account books (receipts and expenditure), 1760-1764, containing original and duplicate versions of Clive's account with Henry Clive, relating to household, personal and family expenses and social engagements such as attendance at balls, concerts and plays, and visits to various coffee houses, race meetings and the pump room at Bath.

An account book giving details of payments made in 1771 with regard to the use of house at Bath (presumably Lord Chatham's former house in the Circus at Bath of which Clive had bought the lease), the furniture at Oakly Park, servants' wages and journeys to Bath, Walcot and Bristol.

A volume of household and other memoranda relating to Clive’s tour of France which he undertook between January and September 1768. It includes lists of the baggage, plate and books that were taken, the names of family members and servants who accompanied him and details of the tour itself (names and dates of places visited with distances given in ‘posts’ and miles).