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An account book giving details of the first half year’s payments for 1769 in respect of the household at Westcomb, a villa near Blackheath, London, belonging to the Duke of Bolton, which Lady Clive had rented when Clive was serving his last period in India, 1765-1767. It is arranged into separate sections for housekeeping, servants, contingent expenses, children’s expenses, travelling expenses, stable expenses, pocket expenses, liquors, wearing apparel, farming and gardening, and taxes at Westcomb and in London. There are enclosures, 1767-1769, containing details of servants' pay and board wages, liveries to servants and lists of servants.

A manuscript, [c. 1766], comprising copies of letters relating to a dispute between George Johnstone, the governor of West Florida, and the deputy governor. George Johnstone was the leader of a group in the House of Commons which took part in the attack on Clive in the parliamentary enquiry of 1772-1773. His brother, John Johnstone, a member of the Calcutta Select Committee, disputed Clive’s powers as governor of Bengal in 1765. These links perhaps help to explain Clive’s interest in and custody of the manuscript.

A copy draft warrant, following a court martial held 17 July [1766], for the execution of Thomas Briggs for desertion and a copy of the proceedings of a court martial, held 19 Nov. 1766, of two sepoys sentenced to dismissal and five hundred lashes respectively.

Papers relating top the Walcot estate.

Papers concerning purchases and sales of the Walcot estate, 1763-1766, which Clive purchased from the Walcot family in 1763, together with papers relating to joinery work and renovations on the estate in Shropshire and Radnorshire, 1763.

A fair copy journal, 1757-1759, containing a daily account of a passage by sea and land from Bengal to England undertaken by Henry Doidge, Edward Ives [ secretary and naval surgeon respectively to Admiral Watson], and John Pye [presumably Captain Pye who, with the others, accompanied Clive on the expedition to Bengal, 1756-1757]. It also records the various legs or stages of the journey e.g. ‘Between Bengal and Bombay’, ‘In the Gulph of Persia’, ‘Sailing up the River Euphrates’, and ‘Between Venice and England’ and the ‘Money laid out’ during the passage.

A detailed valuation of the estates of the late Lord Windsor purchased by Clive at Lady Day 1768 under a decree of the Court of Chancery and of other estates purchased by him in Monmouthshire. It includes the rents payable for 1759 (when Mr. Morris purchased the estate), for 1768 (when Clive purchased it), for 1769, and the proposed rents for 1770. There are also sections relating to annual and immediate disbursements and new purchases.

Financial and administrative records, 1767-1772, relating to Clive's estates in Monmouthshire which he purchased from Lord Windsor and others in the late 1760s and sold to the Duke of Beaufort in 1772, comprising rentals, 1768-1770; particulars, 1767, 1770-1771; draft surveys and valuations, [c. 1770], field books, [c. 1770], rough buildings and repairs accounts; [c. 1770], and papers relating to purchase, sale and estate appointments, 1767-1772.

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’.

A Persian translation from an English version of the book of Genesis from verse 1 of chapter 1 to the beginning of chapter 2.

Transcripts, 1763, of letters 245-284, 1759, Jan. 13-31. Letter no. 281, 31 Jan. 1759, being Clive's request to the Seths for a jagir which he was eventually granted in June 1759 (p. 19).

Transcripts, 1763, of letters 319-365, 1759, Feb. 19-March 8.

Transcripts, 1763, of letters 692-740, 1759, June 21-July 14.

Transcripts, 1763, of letters 366-410, 1759, March 10-23.