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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.

Papers relating to the opposition of Messrs. Leycester, Gray and Johnstone to the authority of Clive and the Bengal Select Committee and the suspension of Leycester, 1765-1766.

Printed copies of three charters granted to the Company on 8 Jan.1753, 19 Sept. 1757, and 1758. They relate to the establishment of a military force and courts of justice in the East Indies and the granting to the Company of a moiety of the plunder and booty taken in consequence of its wars against the French and the Indian princes. The charter of 19 Sept. 1757 makes special reference to Siraj-ud-daula’s capture of Calcutta (20 June 1756).

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.

Copies made in 1753 of the parts of the Company’s general letters of 1727, 1729, 1731 and 1739 (including an extract from the book of instructions for the execution of the charter of 1753) addressed to the presidencies of Fort William, [Calcutta], and Fort St. George [Madras], concerning the procedure to be followed in the mayor’s courts established by the initial and revised charters of 17 Feb. 1727 and 8 Jan. 1753, respectively.

Official papers which, although not extensive, reflect Clive’s involvement in the civil administration of Bengal. They include papers relating to revenue collection, population statistics, currency reform and trade. They derive, for the most part, from Clive’s two periods as governor of Bengal, 1758-1760 and 1765-1767, but relate almost exclusively to the latter.

Stated accounts, 1771-1774, and rebuilding accounts, 1772-1780, of the Claremont estate, near Esher, Surrey, which Clive purchased from the Duchess of Newcastle in June 1769.

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 and abstracts of projected accounts, 1762-1772, Also includes accounts relating to excise and custom on tea, the sale of goods, the number of ships with amounts of their cargoes and copy minute of a meeting of the Court of Directors, 6 Dec. 1769, recording the Company’s proposals, to the Treasury (projected to July 1772) concerning the deficiencies of the duties on tea.

Copies and abstracts of projected accounts, 1752-1771.

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, 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).

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.

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