Cash books of general accounts England,
- CF12
- Cyfres
- 1763-1764.
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Cash books, 1763-1764, covering the years immediately prior to Clive's last voyage to India containing personal, household and estate accounts.
Cash books of general accounts England,
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Cash books, 1763-1764, covering the years immediately prior to Clive's last voyage to India containing personal, household and estate accounts.
India currency reform and trade,
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Official notice, 30 June 1766, relating to the establishment of a gold currency in Bengal together with a note, [c. 1764], from Mr. Holt, East India House, to[Henry] Strachey relating to ‘Claims on the Nabob for Restitution on account of Salt’ and a draft proposal, [c. 1766] concerning the prohibition of ‘dastaks’ (free passes for the Company’s trade) to junior servants.
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Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Lists of existing and proposed military establishments for 1763 and [c. 1765].
Regulations and general orders,
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Scope and content: Original and contemporary copy regulations and general orders with regard to the military, artillery and sepoys in Bengal, staff and other officers’ pay and allowances, and the difference in pay between the military in the Royal Forces and the Company’s service.
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Papers relating to the Bengal expedition, 1756, and to the siege of Madurah, 1764.
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Duplicates of proceedings (i.e. minutes, resolutions, etc. as in the consultations) of the board meeting, held 1 Feb. 1768 and devoted exclusively to the dispute surrounding the gift made in 1767 to Clive (or his successor as governor of Bengal) of the ship Tetenbien belonging to the King of Pegu [in Burma].
Voyage journals of Henry Doidge and others,
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
A fair copy journal, 1757-1759, containing a daily account of a passage by sea and land from Bengal to England undertaken by Henry Doidge, Edward Ives [ secretary and naval surgeon respectively to Admiral Watson], and John Pye [presumably Captain Pye who, with the others, accompanied Clive on the expedition to Bengal, 1756-1757]. It also records the various legs or stages of the journey e.g. ‘Between Bengal and Bombay’, ‘In the Gulph of Persia’, ‘Sailing up the River Euphrates’, and ‘Between Venice and England’ and the ‘Money laid out’ during the passage.
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Rentals, 1771-1777, giving the names of tenants and descriptions of their ‘places and holdings’.
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Incomplete series of stated accounts, 1771-1774, relating inter alia to brewing, baking, coals and charcoal, Claremont establishment, Claremont estate, Esher bridge, labourers' and servants' wages, crops, livestock, improvement of lands, new road and enclosure, the pleasure grounds and works and repairs.
General household and personal account books,
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
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.
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
An account book, 1760-1761, containing details of payments made to Thomas. Harris [tailor] for making clothes (materials specified) for Clive himself, for members of his family and for members of his household.
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
A cash ledger containing accounts relating inter alia to funeral charges, servants’ mourning, wages and allowances (names and positions given), tradesmen’s bills (names and trades given), expenses of executing Clive’s will, household insurance and taxes in London.
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Papers acquired by Robert Clive, 1739-1772, some deliberately, others it seems by accident.
Contemporary transcripts of country correspondence to be kept by the Governor[of Bengal],
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
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.
Contemporary transcripts of country correspondence to be kept by the Governor [of Bengal],
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
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.
Journals of general accounts England and India,
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Journals, 1763-1774, containing accounts relating to the purchase and management (repairs, building work, rents and outgoings, tenants' arrears, etc.) of Clive's estates in England, Wales and Ireland, and his town house in Berkeley Square; expenses relating to elections, to the Acts of Parliament for the Llangollen and Bishops Castle Turnpikes and to his tour of France; bank and life annuities, (annuitants named); his investments in ships; and various other accounts concerned with travel, stable, house, pocket and children's expenses’ together with accounts relating to India including expenses preparatory to and during Clive’s voyage; his jagir money collected and remitted from India by Henry Vansittart; bonds of the governor and council of Calcutta in the custody of General Carnac; bills on the East India Company; India stock; debts due to and from Clive in Bengal; and diamonds from Bengal and Madras.
Contemporary copy journals of India accounts,
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
A contemporary copy, 1757-1758, of India accounts in CF1.
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
Ledgers corresponding to the earliest journals of India accounts in CF1.
Ledgers of general accounts England and India,
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
This series of general ledgers, 1763-1774 corresponds to the journals in CF2 with the entries arranged under appropriate headings.
Contemporary copy ledgers of India accounts,
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers