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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.

Papers concerning purchases and sales of the Walcot estate, 1763-1766, which Clive purchased from the Walcot family in 1763, together with papers relating to joinery work and renovations on the estate in Shropshire and Radnorshire, 1763.

A fair copy journal, 1757-1759, containing a daily account of a passage by sea and land from Bengal to England undertaken by Henry Doidge, Edward Ives [ secretary and naval surgeon respectively to Admiral Watson], and John Pye [presumably Captain Pye who, with the others, accompanied Clive on the expedition to Bengal, 1756-1757]. It also records the various legs or stages of the journey e.g. ‘Between Bengal and Bombay’, ‘In the Gulph of Persia’, ‘Sailing up the River Euphrates’, and ‘Between Venice and England’ and the ‘Money laid out’ during the passage.

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.

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".

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.

The series consists of rough proceedings/minute books of the executors’ meetings from 1774 to 1791. Amongst matters dealt with are the payment of funeral and mourning expenses, the probate of Clive’s will, the payment of legacies, annuities, and tradesmen’s bills, the maintenance and education of his children, the recovery of debts, the sale and purchase of estate properties and claims against the estate. The subjects of Indian interest include bills on the East India Company, the expiration of Clive’s jagir (5 May 1784), and the payment of his attorneys’ bills in Bengal with the closure of his concerns there (11 December 1785). The proceedings give the names of the executors together with those of other persons whose attendance was required at the meetings including on occasions Lady Clive and Edward, Lord Clive.

Particulars, 1767 -1771, of the lordships of Usk and Trelleck 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 and contain details similar to those given in the rentals EU1. They pertain collectively to the lordships of Usk and Trelleck, the manor of Troy, the Usk Castle demesne, Trelleck demesne, and estates bought of sundry persons by Lord Clive since his general purchase of Lord Windsor's estate.

A volume of accounts, [c. 1770], giving details of the physical condition of estate properties with estimated costs of repairs.

Provincial treasury and revenue accounts and reports for the years 1758 and 1765-6.

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.

Scope and content: Original and contemporary copy regulations and general orders with regard to the military, artillery and sepoys in Bengal, staff and other officers’ pay and allowances, and the difference in pay between the military in the Royal Forces and the Company’s service.

A register which appears to relate to a series of 'Country correspondence' some of which are in CR9. The register appears to relate to a series of 'Country Correspondence' letter books which, had they survived, would have immediately preceded the series described in CC2 and CC. It contains abstracts, copies and translations of the 538 letters exchanged between Clive and the Indian rulers from his arrival in Bengal in 1756 until his appointment as governor in 1758. The period of the register saw the recapture of Calcutta (Jan 1757), the capture of Chandernagore from the French (March 1757), the true and fictitious treaty with Mir Jafar (May 1757) and the battle of Plassey (June 1757).

Accounts, estimates, correspondence, and observations, etc., 1772-1780, relating to the rebuilding of Claremont and correspondence and papers, 1777, concerning a dispute between Clive's executors and Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown whom Clive had engaged as architect.

Original and copy proceedings, 1764-1768, of the attorneys’ meetings held for the most part during Clive’s third and final stay in India but also covering a short period following his return to England in 1767. The range of business transacted relates inter alia to estate matters (building work, mortgages, purchase and sale and household insurance), the payment of bills, annuities, the transfer of Clive’s East India stock (giving the holders’ names), his interest in diamonds including that bought of Mr Pybus, letters from India and local events. The attorneys are M. Clive (i.e. Margaret, Lady Clive), Richard Clive, John Walsh, George Clive, Henry Clive and John Kelsall.

Duplicates of the proceedings of the committee from its constitution on 7 May 1765 to 7 September 1765 relating to.

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.

Duplicates of proceedings (i.e. minutes, resolutions, etc. as in the consultations) of the board meeting, held 1 Feb. 1768 and devoted exclusively to the dispute surrounding the gift made in 1767 to Clive (or his successor as governor of Bengal) of the ship Tetenbien belonging to the King of Pegu [in Burma].