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Catalogues of Clive’s libraries at Walcot and Berkeley Square, 1774, with loose papers, 1775-1776.

Inventories, 1769-1781, of livestock, household furniture and personal belongings of Clive drawn up by or for his executors.

Estimate of monthly receipts and disbursements, Jan. –July 1775, mainly interest payments and annuities.

Ledgers of Clive’s executors, 1775-1796, giving summary balances due from, and received to, Clive’s estate

Journals of Clive’s executors, 1775-1795, recording details of monies received and due to named individuals, value of investments and jewellery, expenditure on estate repairs and improvements, payments to annuitants, and members of the family, estate income, rent arrears, etc.

A cash ledger containing accounts relating inter alia to funeral charges, servants’ mourning, wages and allowances (names and positions given), tradesmen’s bills (names and trades given), expenses of executing Clive’s will, household insurance and taxes in London.

An account book, 1774-1786, with Messrs. Gosling, Clive and Gosling, bankers, relating to the payment of legacies, annuities, etc.

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.

Papers acquired by Robert Clive, 1739-1772, some deliberately, others it seems by accident.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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

Ledgers, 1767-1774, giving details of cash received and disbursed in respect of general household, personal and family expenses, each payment being accompanied by its corresponding voucher number. The properties referred to include Claremont, Walcot, Oakly Park, Styche and the Berkeley Square house. The period of the ledgers represents Clive's final years in England but amongst the disbursements are payments connected with his last voyage from India, 1767, and his tours of Europe, 1768, and, 1773-1774. With the exception of the last volume (H9/9), each ledger is consecutively numbered and entitled as above, Edward Crisp being Clive's accountant.

A ledger, 1767-1768, corresponding to the journals in H7.

The earliest and presumably the only surviving volume of a series of general journals of house-stewards' accounts. Included are monthly payments and receipts in respect of general, house, travelling, children', stable and pocket expenses, servants wages, liquors, wearing apparel, sundry accounts and accounts of sundry persons and of Clive's journey to France in 1768.

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.