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Weekly, monthly and general returns of troops, ordnance, ammunition sepoys, lascars, coolies and artificers etc., of the garrison at Fort William, Calcutta (including its detachments to Patna and at Allahabad), and of the troops in general on the Bengal establishment during Clive’s second governorship, 1765-1767.

Weekly, monthly and general returns of troops, ordnance, ammunition sepoys, lascars, coolies and artificers etc. relating to the various companies making up the East India Company’s army for the years [c. 1750s], 1760 and 1764-1767 with the notable exception of one return [c. 1757] relating to French army casualties. The companies’ returns include a roll, [c. 1750s], of the detachment of the Company’s troops victualled by Ensign Davies at Trivady [presumably during the war in the Carnatic known also as Dupleix’s war, 1749-1754], a return, 1760, of troops, etc., at Rajmahal under the command of Major John Caillaud (1724-1812), [presumably during the defence of Patna, 1759-1761], and returns, 1765-1767, of the three brigades established by Clive’s reforms of the military under the commands of Sir Robert Barker, General Carnac and Colonel Richard Smith and stationed at Patna and Allahabad. There are also returns, 1764 and [1765?], of the Company’s troops on board the Prince of Wales (at the Cape of Good Hope) and the Speke. The returns are mostly statistical but sometimes give the names of the troops and even their country of origin. The casualty return relates to the numbers of French killed and wounded at Chandernagore, [post 1757, March 23].

Papers acquired by Robert Clive, 1739-1772, some deliberately, others it seems by accident.

An account book, 1774-1786, with Messrs. Gosling, Clive and Gosling, bankers, relating to the payment of legacies, annuities, etc.

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

A notebook covering the first months of Clive's second governorship of Bengal containing abstracts of letters/communications sent by him, mainly to army officers and staff of the East India Company, relating mainly to routine affairs such as visits, escorting dignitaries, etc. The volume is endorsed: 'Note Book Commencing 13th May 1765'.