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- 1763-1774. (Creation)
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14 vols.
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Journals, 1763-1774, containing accounts relating to the purchase and management (repairs, building work, rents and outgoings, tenants' arrears, etc.) of Clive's estates in England, Wales and Ireland, and his town house in Berkeley Square; expenses relating to elections, to the Acts of Parliament for the Llangollen and Bishops Castle Turnpikes and to his tour of France; bank and life annuities, (annuitants named); his investments in ships; and various other accounts concerned with travel, stable, house, pocket and children's expenses’ together with accounts relating to India including expenses preparatory to and during Clive’s voyage; his jagir money collected and remitted from India by Henry Vansittart; bonds of the governor and council of Calcutta in the custody of General Carnac; bills on the East India Company; India stock; debts due to and from Clive in Bengal; and diamonds from Bengal and Madras.
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The journals are endorsed, ‘A-M’
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Preferred citation: CF2