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Original and fair copy rentals, 1773-1778, of one fourth part of an estate in Okehampton purchased by Clive from Mr. John Hippisley Cox in Michaelmas 1773.

Duplicates of ED3/1.

Letters sent mainly by Clive within India (but including some from H. S. [Henry Strachey, his secretary] during his third and final period there including his second governorship of Bengal, 1765-1767. The wide range of subject matter provides information about the country's internal politics, the civil and military aspects of Clive's duties as governor and various other matters including Clive's own private concerns (e.g. his interest in diamonds), the personal fortunes of company servants, and the Batta mutiny and the ensuing court martials, April-August, 1766, including the arrest, trial and court martial of the mutiny's instigator, Sir Robert Fletcher.

Transcripts, 1763, of letters (and other documents), 1756-1760, from Clive to his relations (except for a cousin who was with him in India) and others in Europe relating to events in India and personal business matters. including letters from Clive at Bombay, Calcutta, Fort Gheria and camp near Chandernagore to ‘Honourable Sir’ [his father] referring to the capture of Gheria [Feb. 1756] (f. 1v) and Chandernagore [March 1757] (f. 2v), the Battle of Plassey [June 1757] (ff. 2v-3r), and his ambitions to be Governor General of India (f. 2r); to Mr Justice Clive [Clive's cousin, Edward, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas] concerning the purchase for him of an estate ‘60 miles from London’; to his agents/bankers in London and Sir Joshua Van Neck regarding financial affairs including negotiations for bills of exchange on the Dutch East India Company (with related correspondence between Sir Joshua Van Neck and John Vynantz, Amsterdam, and minutes of meetings of his attorneys); letters to and from George Clive (Clive's cousin who was with him in India) relating to financial matters and Clive's affairs in India; and accounts of sums realised on Dutch assignats.

Incomplete series of volumes of transcripts, 1763, of the official correspondence between Clive, as governor of Bengal, and the native Indian rulers from 1758 to 1760. Collectively they provide an important source material for the country's internal affairs, Clive's relations with its leaders and his first term as governor. Much of the correspondence relates to Anglo- French- Indian relations, wars, rebellions and infighting between Indian rulers and to the collection of revenues for the East India Company.

Transcripts 1763, of the official correspondence between Clive, as Governor of Bengal, and the native Indian rulers from 16 July to 3 Dec. 1759 similar in content to CC2.

A contemporary copy, 1757-1758, of India accounts in CF1.

Extracts from the consultations (i.e. the minutes, resolutions and correspondence) of the council from May -Sept. 1765. They relate to the appointment of field officers, the acceptance by councillors of presents from Indian princes contrary to Company regulations, a dispute concerning the powers of the select committee, and the grant of the Diwani (i.e. the right to collect the revenue) of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the Company, 12 Aug. 1765.

An account book, 1762-1763, of Thomas Kilvert [house steward] at Condover Hall (an Elizabethan mansion and the seat of the Owen family five miles south of Shrewsbury) which Clive rented in 1761. It includes payments in respect of tradesmen’s bills, servants' wages and window tax for the hall and the house in Shrewsbury. Includes a loose letter, 30 May 1763, from Clive concerning the engagement of a ‘famous Cook’ and a man who understands fireworks to celebrate Plassey Day (23 June 1757).

Copies and abstracts of accounts and financial estimates, etc., compiled from the Company’s official books by officers in London between Jan. 1767 and Nov. 1770. The actual accounts together with projections, however, date from 1752 to 1772. They include accounts of the duties paid on East India goods, the value of exports, the expenses connected with the Company’s settlements, its sundry expenses incurred on account of the wars in the East Indies from 1754 to 1766, its use and victualling of royal forces, the sums granted to it by Parliament, the state of its debts and credits, and an estimate of cargoes and details of its revenues from Bengal and other districts.

An account book, 1760-1761, containing details of payments made to Thomas. Harris [tailor] for making clothes (materials specified) for Clive himself, for members of his family and for members of his household.

Copies, [c 1753]-[c 1758] of charters granted to the Company between 1753 and 1758 and of official correspondence relating to charters dating from 1727.

A cellar book containing weekly accounts of the different types and amounts of wines and spirits consumed and remaining in stock between Nov. 1773 and May 1775. Although various rooms are mentioned the house itself is not identified but the volume probably relates to Clive's Berkeley Square residence, since it contains references to a Mrs. Ashley who was a member of staff there at the time. The book commences virtually a year before, and finishes almost six months after, Clive’s death.

Catalogues of Clive’s libraries at Walcot and Berkeley Square, 1774, with loose papers, 1775-1776.

A cash ledger containing accounts relating inter alia to funeral charges, servants’ mourning, wages and allowances (names and positions given), tradesmen’s bills (names and trades given), expenses of executing Clive’s will, household insurance and taxes in London.

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.

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

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

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.