File CF16/1 - 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.