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Original, contemporary copy and duplicate current accounts, invoices and receipts, 1752-1758, relating to Clive’s transactions with fellow Company servants and other associates in India. Included are accounts with Robert Orme [Clive’s partner in trade and later official historian to the East India Company], the surgeon Tyso Saul Hancock, Thomas Amphlett, George Clive [Clive’s cousin], George Pigot Governor of Madras], Henry Vansittart [later to succeed Clive as governor of Bengal], Richard Bourchier [Governor of Bombay], and Captain Samuel Hough [with Clive at the surrender of the pirate stronghold of Gheria, 1756]. The accounts give details of Clive’s personal and official finances (payments to his barber, washer man and tailor, his Company allowances and salary, etc.) and his mercantile and business interests (investments in diamonds and ships, etc.). The period represented by the accounts includes Clive’s stay at Madras, his appointment as captain and his governorship of Fort St. David.

Account of the revenues of the provinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (itemised by district) taken in the year 1758 including particulars of the revenues arising from the lands ‘Containing only what each Country pays for the Colsah being the Kings Rent and the Jaghire which is the Rent due on the Nabobs Lands.’

Treasury accounts of the province of Bihar.

Report in the form of a journal kept by Mr Graham, the resident at Midnapur, of a circuit, undertaken by him between 27 March and 30 April 1766, of the districts (described as provinces) of Midnapur and Jallasor. It gives information relating to the boundaries, extent, inhabitants, cultivation and revenue system of the constituent ‘parganas’ [subdivisions of a district].

Lists of the numbers and ranks of the regiments, etc., of the British and Irish establishments of H. M. Land Forces for 1763.

Notes, memoranda, etc. relating to proposed military establishments mainly at Bengal but also at Bombay and Madras.

Papers relating to Clive’s involvement in the Bengal expedition, despatched in 1756 from Madras (where he was deputy governor of Fort St. David) to Bengal to recapture Calcutta following the infamous ‘Black Hole’ incident. The papers include returns and an invoice of stores shipped for the expedition, Sept.-Oct. 1756, a warrant for the commander-in-chief to appoint courts martial and judge advocates, Oct. 1756, three copies of the journal of the proceedings of the land forces commanded by Clive, Oct. 1756, instructions from the Select Committee of Fort St. George to Clive, Oct. 1756, and a narrative [post-Nov. 1756] of the ‘Quarrel re Bengal’ from 9 April to 8 Nov. 1756.

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating primarily to military, but including some civil, matters deriving from Clive’s second and third periods of service, 1756-1759 and 1765-1766. The papers from the earlier period include inter alia a copy [c. 1756] of the Maratha letter to Roger Drake [Governor of Bengal 1752-1758] offering assistance and recompense for losses at Calcutta, signals to be observed by ships and vessels, [ 1756x1757], duplicate correspondence and rough/’foul’ minutes of a council of war concerning events prior and subsequent to Plassey, June 1757, an abstract of a letter, [post 1758], to Mr. Ives [naval surgeon] on the revolution in Bengal, a letter, 11 Oct. 1759, from Clive to an unidentified addressee concerning the presence of the Dutch armament at Cinsura, and a note and receipt on the delivery of medals, 1759. Amongst papers representing the later period are duplicates of letters from Clive to members of the Calcutta council and military personnel, 1765, and a petition relating to assistance for the widow of Titus Hubbert, gunner in the 3rd Company of Artillery, 1766.

Includes letters to and from Clive in the field and a detailed plan for the Society of Trade formally established on 10 Aug. 1765.

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).

Includes details of outgoings.

A volume of monthly accounts, Aug.-Oct. 1765, of day work done by joiners together with their names and signatures/marks for payments received between Sept. and Dec. 1765.