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Robert Clive Papers

  • GB 0210 ROBCLI
  • Fonds
  • 1727-1791 (accumulated [c. 1743]-1791)

Papers, 1727-1791, relating to both Clive's public and private life but mostly to the former. They include letter books of outgoing letters sent from both England and India, 1752-1774; Clive's financial records, mainly relating to his financial concerns in India, 1752-1774; estate and household records, 1761-1781; records relating to his official duties in India, particularly as governor of Bengal, including records he acquired of earlier East India Company employees, 1727-1772, political papers, including canvassing lists and poll books, [c. 1761]-1775; and records of Clive's trustees and executors, 1774-1791.

Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774

Letter from Mir Jafar

Refers to his 'dear brother' Sayyid Muhammad Kazim Khan Bahadur travelling from Azimabad [i.e. Patna], to a letter from Nawab Vazir al-Mamalik, and to arrangements for a great tamasha in Calcutta to mark the opening of the Plassey garden. He also writes of sinking of French equipment and their being afraid of the English army. -- Note at end in Nabob's own hand relating to entry no. 536 in CR8/1 despite inconsistency of dates.

Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal.

India current accounts,

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.

Revenue accounts and reports,

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.’

Revenue accounts and reports,

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].

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India currency reform and trade,

Official notice, 30 June 1766, relating to the establishment of a gold currency in Bengal together with a note, [c. 1764], from Mr. Holt, East India House, to[Henry] Strachey relating to ‘Claims on the Nabob for Restitution on account of Salt’ and a draft proposal, [c. 1766] concerning the prohibition of ‘dastaks’ (free passes for the Company’s trade) to junior servants.

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Military administration of Bengal,

The group consists, for the most part, of papers, [c. 1750’s]-1771, connected with the general routine military administration but also includes some papers, 1756, relating to Clive’s own active service. Being few in number however, they provide only a fragmentary record of his military role with little for the early years of his service and his first governorship (1758-1760), but slightly more for his second administration (1765-1767). A few papers, dated 1764 and 1771, refer to events that occurred when Clive was not in India but are, nonetheless, pertinent to his service there.

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Establishment list,

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

Regulations and general orders,

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.

Bengal expedition,

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,

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.

Proceedings of the council,

Duplicates of proceedings (i.e. minutes, resolutions, etc. as in the consultations) of the board meeting, held 1 Feb. 1768 and devoted exclusively to the dispute surrounding the gift made in 1767 to Clive (or his successor as governor of Bengal) of the ship Tetenbien belonging to the King of Pegu [in Burma].

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