Showing 106 results

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

A series of duplicate rentals, 1772-1776, which, to a greater or lesser degree, are duplicates of those in ED1.

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.

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).

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 copy, 20 Oct. 1766, of the proceedings of a meeting of the court held on 1 Oct. 1766 devoted exclusively to the public oath and bond taken and executed by Clive as governor to refrain from engaging in trade and sworn as a precedent to future governors. They bear the seal of the court and the signatures of James Lister, the mayor, and John Holme, the register.

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.

Journals of the ‘State of Affairs and Accounts’ of Henry Harnett of Calcutta, a Company servant, continued presumably by his executors after his death in 1727. The journals contain details of his personal accounts, his respondentia loans secured on ships’ cargoes and his interests (described as ‘adventures’) in internal trade. The journals cover the years from 1727 to 1729, but the earliest transactions date back to 1725.

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’.

Rentals, 1768-1770, of cottages and other properties in the lordships of Usk and Trelleck in the town of Usk and the parishes of Glasgoed, Llanbadog, Usk town, Llanfihangel Pont-y-moel, Gwehelog, Llandenni, Llanishen, Llangofen, Llanwynno, Llan-soe, Llanfihangel Torymynydd, Gwernesi, Dingestow, Llantrissent, Trostre, Wolvesnewton, Pen-allt, Llandogo, Tintern, Trelleck, Mitchell Troy, Cwmcarfan, Usk, Llangyfiw, Llan-gwm, Wolvesnewton, Cilgwrwg, and Penclawdd giving names of landlords and tenants, the name (including field names), extent, and location (by parish) of the property, its value, observations/remarks on its ‘quality’ (i.e. condition, physical characteristics and use) and the amount of rent payable.

An account book, 1760-1761, of payments totalling over £900 made to George Smith Bradshaw for furnishing Clive's houses (not identified) but probably his town houses, including that in Berkley Square. The accounts, in the form of an inventory, record the furnishings and fittings room by room and are receipted for £800 by G. S. Bradshaw on 8th Aug. 1761. The work and costs involved are described in a separate ‘Jobbing Account’ (pp. 11-14).

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).

An account book giving details of the first half year’s payments for 1769 in respect of the household at Westcomb, a villa near Blackheath, London, belonging to the Duke of Bolton, which Lady Clive had rented when Clive was serving his last period in India, 1765-1767. It is arranged into separate sections for housekeeping, servants, contingent expenses, children’s expenses, travelling expenses, stable expenses, pocket expenses, liquors, wearing apparel, farming and gardening, and taxes at Westcomb and in London. There are enclosures, 1767-1769, containing details of servants' pay and board wages, liveries to servants and lists of servants.

An account book giving details of payments made in 1771 with regard to the use of house at Bath (presumably Lord Chatham's former house in the Circus at Bath of which Clive had bought the lease), the furniture at Oakly Park, servants' wages and journeys to Bath, Walcot and Bristol.

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.

A volume of household and other memoranda relating to Clive’s tour of France which he undertook between January and September 1768. It includes lists of the baggage, plate and books that were taken, the names of family members and servants who accompanied him and details of the tour itself (names and dates of places visited with distances given in ‘posts’ and miles).

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.

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