Dangos 1520 canlyniad

Duplicate of CC2/5.

Duplicate of CC2/6

Contemporary copies of official company records comprising charters, [c. 1753]-[c. 1758], treatises, farmans, agreements, [c. 1757]-[post 1765, Sept.], and account books, 1752-1772.

Copies, [c 1753]-[c 1758] of charters granted to the Company between 1753 and 1758 and of official correspondence relating to charters dating from 1727.

Copies made in 1753 of the parts of the Company’s general letters of 1727, 1729, 1731 and 1739 (including an extract from the book of instructions for the execution of the charter of 1753) addressed to the presidencies of Fort William, [Calcutta], and Fort St. George [Madras], concerning the procedure to be followed in the mayor’s courts established by the initial and revised charters of 17 Feb. 1727 and 8 Jan. 1753, respectively.

Printed copies of three charters granted to the Company on 8 Jan.1753, 19 Sept. 1757, and 1758. They relate to the establishment of a military force and courts of justice in the East Indies and the granting to the Company of a moiety of the plunder and booty taken in consequence of its wars against the French and the Indian princes. The charter of 19 Sept. 1757 makes special reference to Siraj-ud-daula’s capture of Calcutta (20 June 1756).

Contemporary copies, [c 1765] of the Treaty of Peace executed at Allahabad, 16 Aug. 1765, and of related farmans (imperial grants) and agreements, etc., 24 July-15 Sept. 1765, whereby the Mughal Emperor granted to the Company the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, acknowledged its right to its possessions in the Carnatic and the northern Circars (provinces) and confirmed Clive in his jagir. Included is ‘A Narrative of Facts’ (pp. 28-41) being an account of the Anglo-Indian relations prevailing during the governorships of Henry Vansittart (1760-1764) and John Spencer (Nov. 1764-May 1765) prior to Clive’s arrival in Bengal in May 1765.

Duplicate of CD2/1 except that it contains, as part of the text and as a loose enclosure, an additional copy document numbered 15 being a ‘Translation of the Mutchulca (‘muchilka’ [obligation]) of the Dewanny Sunnud (grant) for Lord Clive’s Jagheer’.

Copies and abstracts of accounts and financial estimates, etc., compiled from the Company’s official books by officers in London between Jan. 1767 and Nov. 1770. The actual accounts together with projections, however, date from 1752 to 1772. They include accounts of the duties paid on East India goods, the value of exports, the expenses connected with the Company’s settlements, its sundry expenses incurred on account of the wars in the East Indies from 1754 to 1766, its use and victualling of royal forces, the sums granted to it by Parliament, the state of its debts and credits, and an estimate of cargoes and details of its revenues from Bengal and other districts.

Copies and abstracts of projected accounts, 1752-1771.

Copies and abstracts of projected accounts, 1762-1772, Also includes accounts relating to excise and custom on tea, the sale of goods, the number of ships with amounts of their cargoes and copy minute of a meeting of the Court of Directors, 6 Dec. 1769, recording the Company’s proposals, to the Treasury (projected to July 1772) concerning the deficiencies of the duties on tea.

Original grant of the jagir together with deeds and correspondence, 1758-1767, relating to its subsequent administration.

Original perwannah [grant], June 1759, of Clive’s jagir together with a translation and ‘copies of other papers, [1758-1761], relative to the transactions in Bengal’.

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.

A notebook/letter book containing nine letters, each dated 3 Oct. 1767, from Clive at Walcot to individual Company directors to thanking them for supporting the motion at the General Court for the extension of his jagir

Accounts of Clive's personal and official finances both in India and England, buy mainly in the former. The distinction, however, is not always clear since both his foreign and domestic transactions and the different types of accounts are sometimes represented separately and sometimes intermixed. The group comprises : journals of India accounts, 1757-1759, journals of general accounts: England and India, 1763-1774, journals of ‘Lord Clive’s Concerns in Bengal’, 1765-1766, contemporary copy journals of India accounts, 1757-1758, draft journals of general accounts England and India, 1764, 1769-1774, ledgers of diamond accounts, 1755-1757, ledgers of India accounts, 1757-1759, ledgers of general accounts England and India, 1763-1774, ledgers of Lord Clive’s Concerns in Bengal, 1765-1766, contemporary copy ledgers of India accounts, 1757-1758, account books of India accounts, 1759-1760, cash books of general accounts England, 1763-1764, cash books of Lord Clive’s Concerns in Bengal, 1765-1766, miscellaneous cash account books, 1756-1763, bills books; 1756-1758, and bundles of accounts, 1752-1758.