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Journals, 1757-1759, relating to Clive’s second residence in India (including his first period as governor of Bengal) including accounts headed Bengal expedition, committee money, charges general (including his salary), remittances to England, interest bonds, profit and loss (including the receipt of card debts), chaise and horses, plate and jewels, life annuities and investments in ships.

Account books, 1759-1760, containing details of Clive's finances during, and immediately subsequent to, his second period of residence in India.

The volume gives details of Clive's accounts with Thomas Amphlett (his cousin) and William Fullerton (the family doctor) for the last year, 1759-1760, of his first period of office as governor of Bengal. They range from the payment and receipt of Clive's card debts, to his salary as governor, and the Company's allowances for his table expenses and for ‘three Publick Entertainments, viz. Gen Kings Birthday Christmas day and new years day" [1758-9]. Extent: 11 ff. Outsize vol.

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.

Cash books, 1763-1764, covering the years immediately prior to Clive's last voyage to India containing personal, household and estate accounts.

Includes payments preparatory to his third voyage to India.

A cash book, 1765-1766, of monthly receipts and expenditure from Clive's second period as governor of Bengal which corresponds to the relevant journals and ledgers in CF3 and CF9.

A volume of miscellaneous accounts comprising a cash ledger and banker's book combined in a single volume. It includes personal accounts (clothing accessories, funeral rings, jewellery, diamonds, plate, etc., ) for 1756-1757, and bank accounts with Honeywood, Fuller & Co., for 1762-1763, and pertains respectively to Clive's second periods of residence in India and England.

A volume, 1756-1758, of ‘Bills Payable’ and ‘Bills Receivable’ deriving from Clive's second period in India. The details, in tabular form, include the names of those by whom the bills were drawn, to whom they were payable, their date, time span, when they became due and the sum involved.

A bundle of Clive’s personal and official accounts during his stays in India between 1752 and 1758.

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.

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.