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Papers, 1762, relating to the purchase of the Leigh estate including articles of agreement, 20 Feb. 1762, and related accounts, 25 Feb.-20 Oct. 1762.

Household account books, journals, ledgers, etc., 1755-1781, concerning the management of Clive's households which, in the broadest context, relates to members of his family as well as his staff. The group comprises: general household and personal account books, 1760-1764, clothing account books, 1760-1761, furnishings and fittings account books, 1760-1761, Condover household account books, 1762-1763, Westcomb household account books, 1769, general household and travel account books, 1771-1773, journals of house-stewards’ books, 1767-1768, , ledgers of house-stewards’ books, 1767-1768, ledgers of Edward Crisp’s with Lord Clive, 1767-1774, cellar books, 1773-1775, memoranda of Clive’s French tour, 1768, inventories of Berkeley Square and other properties, [c. 1770], and miscellaneous papers, 1755-[c. 1770].

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.

Duplicate of H1/2 except for account 6.

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.

Until September 1768 Edward Crisp's accounts are with Clive's attorneys rather than with Clive himself because the latter was touring France.

Inventory [c. 1770] of household furniture, etc. at Berkeley Square, Bath and Walcot. Only the contents of Walcot are valued.

Despite a political career spanning a decade and more, the group consists of comparatively few papers confined basically to the general elections of 1774-1775, and the Parliamentary enquiry of 1772-1773.

A poll book for the borough of Shrewsbury the candidates’ names in abbreviated form i.e. ‘C’ (Clive), ‘L’ (Charlton Leighton) and ‘P’ ( William Pulteney), the votes cast for each and an alphabetical list of the voters with occasional remarks on their qualification to vote.

Although entitled Receiving of presents, the file also includes papers referring to the ‘Nabob’s Legacy’ and Clive’s military fund, 1760-1770.

Papers relating to the opposition of Messrs. Leycester, Gray and Johnstone to the authority of Clive and the Bengal Select Committee and the suspension of Leycester, 1765-1766.

Having no specific title, the file contains papers relating to various matters connected with Clive’s career, 1755-1768, including the fictitious treaty with Mir Jafar, the Batta mutiny, financial irregularities, East India Company revenues, etc.

A printed copy of Lord Clive’s speech in the House of Commons, 30th March 1772, on the motion made for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of the affairs of the East India Company and of their servants in India and for the due administration of justice in Bengal. The speech constitutes Clive’s defence to the following charges that were levied against him: a monopoly of cotton, a monopoly of diamonds, frauds in the exchange and in the gold coinage, a monopoly of salt, betel nut and tobacco and the peculation of revenues. It includes details of Clive’s accounts (receipts and disbursements) in India taken from his books kept by Mr. Verelst (pp. 38-39) an account of the Company’s investments from Bengal for the seven years preceding and subsequent to the acquisition of the Diwani in 1765 (p. 50), an account of the Company’s revenues and the civil, military and other expenses, 1765-1771, (p.52) and an interesting insight (from Clive’s point of view) of the life of a Company servant (pp. 43-45).

The group comprises proceedings (minutes) and correspondence, 1764-1768, of Clive’s attorneys who conducted his affairs in England while he was in India.

During the period covered by this volume Clive was back in England having returned some six months previously. It contains just four meetings of two of his attorneys (i.e. John Walsh and George Clive) devoted exclusively to estate matters i.e. the estates of the late Lord Windsor and of Mr. Waring, and those of Kevenlease, Maeslough and Shrewsbury. It includes loose minutes [circa 5 Feb. 1768] of the first three meetings.