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This series of general ledgers, 1763-1774 corresponds to the journals in CF2 with the entries arranged under appropriate headings.

Rentals, 1771-1777, giving the names of tenants and descriptions of their ‘places and holdings’.

A notebook covering the first months of Clive's second governorship of Bengal containing abstracts of letters/communications sent by him, mainly to army officers and staff of the East India Company, relating mainly to routine affairs such as visits, escorting dignitaries, etc. The volume is endorsed: 'Note Book Commencing 13th May 1765'.

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.

Account books, 1759-1760, containing details of Clive's finances during, and immediately subsequent to, his second period of residence in India.

A volume of miscellaneous accounts comprising a cash ledger and banker's book combined in a single volume. It includes personal accounts (clothing accessories, funeral rings, jewellery, diamonds, plate, etc., ) for 1756-1757, and bank accounts with Honeywood, Fuller & Co., for 1762-1763, and pertains respectively to Clive's second periods of residence in India and England.

A bundle of Clive’s personal and official accounts during his stays in India between 1752 and 1758.

Weekly, monthly and general returns of troops, ordnance, ammunition sepoys, lascars, coolies and artificers etc. relating to the various companies making up the East India Company’s army for the years [c. 1750s], 1760 and 1764-1767 with the notable exception of one return [c. 1757] relating to French army casualties. The companies’ returns include a roll, [c. 1750s], of the detachment of the Company’s troops victualled by Ensign Davies at Trivady [presumably during the war in the Carnatic known also as Dupleix’s war, 1749-1754], a return, 1760, of troops, etc., at Rajmahal under the command of Major John Caillaud (1724-1812), [presumably during the defence of Patna, 1759-1761], and returns, 1765-1767, of the three brigades established by Clive’s reforms of the military under the commands of Sir Robert Barker, General Carnac and Colonel Richard Smith and stationed at Patna and Allahabad. There are also returns, 1764 and [1765?], of the Company’s troops on board the Prince of Wales (at the Cape of Good Hope) and the Speke. The returns are mostly statistical but sometimes give the names of the troops and even their country of origin. The casualty return relates to the numbers of French killed and wounded at Chandernagore, [post 1757, March 23].

Weekly, monthly and general returns of troops, ordnance, ammunition sepoys, lascars, coolies and artificers etc., of the garrison at Fort William, Calcutta (including its detachments to Patna and at Allahabad), and of the troops in general on the Bengal establishment during Clive’s second governorship, 1765-1767.

Extracts from the consultations (i.e. the minutes, resolutions and correspondence) of the council from May -Sept. 1765. They relate to the appointment of field officers, the acceptance by councillors of presents from Indian princes contrary to Company regulations, a dispute concerning the powers of the select committee, and the grant of the Diwani (i.e. the right to collect the revenue) of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the Company, 12 Aug. 1765.

Alphabetical index to the consultations for 1766, the consultations themselves not being present. In addition to references to individual persons and places, there are entries headed inter alia company servants, Europe ships, fortifications and repair, hospital, import warehouse keeper, military, paymasters, president, rents and revenues, salt farms, surgeons, treasury and zamindar (collector of revenue).

An agreement, 16 May 1764, and a grant, 4 Nov. 1767, made between Clive and the East India Company concerning his right to and extension of his jagir.

Particulars, 1767 -1771, of the lordships of Usk and Trelleck giving names of landlords and tenants, the name (including field names), extent, and location (by parish) of the property, its value, observations/remarks on its ‘quality’ (i.e. condition, physical characteristics and use) and the amount of rent payable and contain details similar to those given in the rentals EU1. They pertain collectively to the lordships of Usk and Trelleck, the manor of Troy, the Usk Castle demesne, Trelleck demesne, and estates bought of sundry persons by Lord Clive since his general purchase of Lord Windsor's estate.

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

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.

Papers concerning purchases and sales of the Walcot estate, 1763-1766, which Clive purchased from the Walcot family in 1763, together with papers relating to joinery work and renovations on the estate in Shropshire and Radnorshire, 1763.

A ledger, 1767-1768, corresponding to the journals in H7.

Original documents and near-contemporary copies of Clive’s papers assembled and prepared in 1772-1773 for his defence before the select committee. They include his speech to Parliament, minutes of interrogatories of witnesses, copies of his official correspondence, and memoranda and notes, etc., looking back to events and aspects of his service over a ten year period from his victory at Plassey (1757) to his final return to England (1767).