Proceedings of the select committee,
- CSA4
- Series
- 1765.
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Duplicates of the proceedings of the committee from its constitution on 7 May 1765 to 7 September 1765 relating to.
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Proceedings of the select committee,
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Duplicates of the proceedings of the committee from its constitution on 7 May 1765 to 7 September 1765 relating to.
Untitled
Proceedings of the select committee,
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Includes an inaugural letter of Clive stating his objectives for the committee, orders for the recall of ‘Free Merchants’ and ‘Europeans not immediately in the Company’s Service’ who are residing ‘up the Country’, letters received from and despatched to General Carnac and others concerning military and financial matters and the establishment of peace, depositions and a letter (translated from Persian) relating to the presents received by various councillors from the Nawab.
Proceedings of the select committee,
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Includes further letters from Clive and other members of the committee in the field concerning Indian politics.
Part of Robert Clive Papers
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.
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Enclosed is a loose copy, 19 Sept. 1766, of Clive’s minute in committee proposing the foregoing oath in return for a commission of 11/8 per cent on the revenues.
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Original and copy proceedings, 1764-1768, of the attorneys’ meetings held for the most part during Clive’s third and final stay in India but also covering a short period following his return to England in 1767. The range of business transacted relates inter alia to estate matters (building work, mortgages, purchase and sale and household insurance), the payment of bills, annuities, the transfer of Clive’s East India stock (giving the holders’ names), his interest in diamonds including that bought of Mr Pybus, letters from India and local events. The attorneys are M. Clive (i.e. Margaret, Lady Clive), Richard Clive, John Walsh, George Clive, Henry Clive and John Kelsall.
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Part of Robert Clive Papers
A contemporary copy of A1/1 ending 23 January 1767 made for Henry Clive one of the attorneys.
Proposed military establishments,
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Notes, memoranda, etc. relating to proposed military establishments mainly at Bengal but also at Bombay and Madras.
Part of Robert Clive Papers
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.
Purchase of Montford and Oakly Park estates,
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Papers, 1761, 1764, [c. 1768] and 1773, concerning purchase, sales, lettings and the appointment of a gamekeeper and steward.
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Purvannah issued by Siraj ud-Daula enclosed in a letter of Mr Watts,
Part of Robert Clive Papers
A contemporary translation of the contents is CR8/1, entry no. 123.
Siraj ud-daula, Nawab of Bengal, -1757
Ram Chanran Ray's Accounts and Monthly Cash Accounts,
Part of Robert Clive Papers
The volume contains mainly personal accounts ranging from Clive's jagir to his investments in ships. It also includes two loose accounts, the one relating to the sale by auction of Clive's goods at Calcutta, 20 Feb 1760 (the day before he sailed for England), the other, dated 5 Oct. 1760, concerning the sale, between February and September 1760, of his jewellery.
Rebuilding accounts and papers,
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Accounts, estimates, correspondence, and observations, etc., 1772-1780, relating to the rebuilding of Claremont and correspondence and papers, 1777, concerning a dispute between Clive's executors and Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown whom Clive had engaged as architect.
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Although entitled Receiving of presents, the file also includes papers referring to the ‘Nabob’s Legacy’ and Clive’s military fund, 1760-1770.
Register of Country Correspondence letters received and sent,
Part of Robert Clive Papers
Enclosed is a translation of a letter, dated 10 March 1757, from Siraj-ud-daula to Admiral Watson concerning Anglo-French relations.
Registers of 'Country Correspondence Letters Received & Sent' ,
Part of Robert Clive Papers
A register which appears to relate to a series of 'Country correspondence' some of which are in CR9. The register appears to relate to a series of 'Country Correspondence' letter books which, had they survived, would have immediately preceded the series described in CC2 and CC. It contains abstracts, copies and translations of the 538 letters exchanged between Clive and the Indian rulers from his arrival in Bengal in 1756 until his appointment as governor in 1758. The period of the register saw the recapture of Calcutta (Jan 1757), the capture of Chandernagore from the French (March 1757), the true and fictitious treaty with Mir Jafar (May 1757) and the battle of Plassey (June 1757).
Regulations and general orders,
Part of Robert 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.