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A survey of the estate when it was in the ownership of Thomas Pitt [pre 1767]. The details given include the names of the tenants, the tenements they hold and by whom occupied and rented, the lives in being, their ages, improved yearly rent, heriots, referred yearly rents, years purchase and computed value of Mr. Pitt’s interest.

Subscription lists, 1762-1771, for the mother of a Captain Bridge killed in Bengal, 1762; to race a horse over Shrewsbury racecourse, 1770; to raise £3000 decreed by the court of Chancery against Shrewsbury corporation, 1771, and a proposal to republish Meninski’s Dictionary of the Arabick, Persian and Turkish languages edited by William Jones, 1770.

The series comprises a ledger, 1766-1768, corresponding to the journal EG1/1. Presumably this also represents the only surviving volume of a series of similar ledgers.

The series comprises the first, and apparently the only surviving, journal of a series of journals which, according to internal evidence, comprised at least six volumes. It gives details of the sums received and expended by Thomas Wingfield and Caleb Powell, stewards, respectively, of the Shropshire and Irish estates. Although the details pertain officially to the two years from December 1766 to December 1768, the earliest entry refers to an account dating back to 1764. The accounts relate to rents and outgoings, annuities (annuitants named), repairs (tradespersons named), taxes, general expenses, tenants' arrears and general books. The journal includes two loose accounts, the one of rents of the Shropshire estates, 1763-1767, the other of receipts and expenses, 1766-1767, connected with Walcot mansion and demesne submitted to Mr. Wingfield by John Coston".

Endorsed: ‘Stewards Books Journal A Commencing the 31st. Decr. 1766 and terminating the 31 December 1768’.

Incomplete series of stated accounts, 1771-1774, relating inter alia to brewing, baking, coals and charcoal, Claremont establishment, Claremont estate, Esher bridge, labourers' and servants' wages, crops, livestock, improvement of lands, new road and enclosure, the pleasure grounds and works and repairs.

A printed copy of Lord Clive’s speech in the House of Commons, 30th March 1772, on the motion made for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of the affairs of the East India Company and of their servants in India and for the due administration of justice in Bengal. The speech constitutes Clive’s defence to the following charges that were levied against him: a monopoly of cotton, a monopoly of diamonds, frauds in the exchange and in the gold coinage, a monopoly of salt, betel nut and tobacco and the peculation of revenues. It includes details of Clive’s accounts (receipts and disbursements) in India taken from his books kept by Mr. Verelst (pp. 38-39) an account of the Company’s investments from Bengal for the seven years preceding and subsequent to the acquisition of the Diwani in 1765 (p. 50), an account of the Company’s revenues and the civil, military and other expenses, 1765-1771, (p.52) and an interesting insight (from Clive’s point of view) of the life of a Company servant (pp. 43-45).

Journal containing a day-to-day account with correspondence and despatches, March-Nov. 1764, relating to the siege of Madurah in the Presidency of Madras.

A poll book for the borough of Shrewsbury the candidates’ names in abbreviated form i.e. ‘C’ (Clive), ‘L’ (Charlton Leighton) and ‘P’ ( William Pulteney), the votes cast for each and an alphabetical list of the voters with occasional remarks on their qualification to vote.

The seal, apparently from an envelope band, mentions 1170 AH [i.e. 1757/8] and reg. yr 4, presumably relates to Salabat Jang, who was Nizam of Hyderabad from 1751-1762/3.

Papers relating to the inland trade in salt and the establishment of the Society of Trade, 1760-1768.