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Proceedings of the committee from its constitution on 18 March 1766 to 6 Nov. 1766, including reports and accounts of officers such as the military Paymaster General containing abstracts of pay to sepoys, lascars, artificers and coolies, returns of casualties, a list of assistants and servants employed in the fort, charges relating to repairs and merchandize and particulars of marine disbursements.

Poll books, 1774, for the borough of Shrewsbury and the county of Montgomery, 1775, and canvass return of the borough of Shrewsbury.

Poems, plays and manuscripts from Clive’s private collection.

Personal and domestic correspondence comprising letters from Clive to his cousin George Clive, 1760-1761; letters to Clive in India from his wife, Margaret, Lady Clive, and his son Edward, 1765-1767; and letters from Lady Clive in Europe to Clive in England, 1768.

Original documents and near-contemporary copies of Clive’s papers assembled and prepared in 1772-1773 for his defence before the select committee. They include his speech to Parliament, minutes of interrogatories of witnesses, copies of his official correspondence, and memoranda and notes, etc., looking back to events and aspects of his service over a ten year period from his victory at Plassey (1757) to his final return to England (1767).

Papers, 1767-1772, relating to the conveyance of the estate (including a copy agreement, 6 Jan. 1772, for its sale to the Duke of Beaufort) together with the appointments, 8 July 1768, of a chief steward and a constable of the castles of Usk and Trelleck.

Papers, [c. 1760]-[c. 1763], of William Dobbins [an east India Company servant?] comprising his current account with the Nawab and a list of persons ‘who lent money to William Dobbins when in Nabob’s Service’.

Letter books, 1764-1768, containing outgoing correspondence of Clive’s attorneys’ in pursuance of the business transacted in their meetings.

Rentals, 1771-1777, giving the names of tenants and descriptions of their ‘places and holdings’.

Miscellaneous papers relating to the passing of a local turnpike Act, 1764, the ‘weight’ of estate royalties for electoral purposes, [c. 1768], and the Pontefract election of 1768, which was fought by Henry Strachey, Clive’s secretary, who eventually won on appeal.

Miscellaneous papers, [c. 1765]-1767, relating to the attorneys’ dealings with regard to Clive’s assignations (bills) on the Dutch East India Company, his East India stock and repairs at Styche Hall.

Miscellaneous papers, comprising bills and bonds, 1742-1773, subscription lists, 1762-1771, and papers relating to the Order of the Bath, 1764-[1772].

Miscellaneous papers comprising a notice of renewal, 10 Feb. 1755, of the insurance policy on Clive's house in Queen Square, [Ormond Street, London], medical recipes, [c. 1760], (some in Latin) and a testimonial, [c. 1770], in respect of W[illia]m Disney who was Clive's under-butler for eighteen months.

Miscellaneous military papers, [1750s]-1771.

Copy, duplicate and draft correspondence and papers, 1757-1759, 1765-1767 relating to the council and committee business. It includes a copy of Clive’s general letter to the Company replying to the criticisms of its directors, Dec. 1759, papers relating to the arbitrary confinement of Indians, the receipt of presents by councillors [c. 1766], and Clive’s departure from Bengal, Jan. 1767, copy agreements, 1765-1766, relating to the trade in salt and betel-nut, a list of the letters, dated 1757-1758, sent in the Company’s secret committee’s packet to the select committee at Fort William and communications, 1759 and 1763, between the Fort William council and the chiefs at Luckipor.

A volume of miscellaneous accounts comprising a cash ledger and banker's book combined in a single volume. It includes personal accounts (clothing accessories, funeral rings, jewellery, diamonds, plate, etc., ) for 1756-1757, and bank accounts with Honeywood, Fuller & Co., for 1762-1763, and pertains respectively to Clive's second periods of residence in India and England.

Minutes (i.e. summaries) of all the extant 'Country Correspondence' (fifty eight letters in all) that Clive received from Indian rulers (named) between 26 December 1765 and 24 May 1766, translated and compiled by Robert Maddison, Persian translator, on 16 Dec. 1766. The subject matter reflects the country's internal politics, Clive's relations with its rulers and the prevailing military situation.

Catalogues/lists, 1769-1775, of the private and official papers that Clive kept at his various residences.

Original 'country correspondence' .The letters cover both Clive's first (1756-1760) and second (1765-1766) governorships of Bengal. In terms of content, a significant proportion is concerned with political and military affairs principally in Bengal, but also across the Mughal Empire more generally. In addition there are numerous references to regional trade and taxation, as well as letters entreating Clive to grant pardons or preferment. Much of this correspondence was translated at the time and then recorded, together with the text of Clive's replies, surviving either in original (CR8/1, 1756-1758) and transcribed letter books (CC2/1-CC4/6, 1758-1760), or else organised as 'minutes'(CR11/1, 1765-1766).

Letter books containing general letters (mostly public but some private) from Clive to correspondents in Europe but mainly to officers of the East India Company in India. They derive from his second period of residence in India, 1756-1760, when he returned as a lieutenant-colonel and held the positions of deputy-governor of Fort St David, and governor, for the first time, of Bengal. There are also some letters from Clive's aides and associates. -- The letters relate to military and naval operations in Bengal, the restoration of the East India Company's interests there, the East India Company's financial affairs, the capture and recapture of Calcutta, relations with the French and the capture of their settlement at Chandernagore, the political and military situation prevailing from the aftermath of the capture of Chandernagore to the march on Plassey, including relations with Siraj-ud-daula and Mir Jafar, and the battle of Plassey.