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Nodyn | Note[generalNote]: The archive includes records of Clive's trustees/executors who
continued to function until 1791, seventeen years after Clive's death.Previously Clive MSS & Papers(Second Series) and Clive of IndiaPapers.
Nodyn | Note[generalNote]: The archive was acquired with financial support from the National
Heritage Memorial Fund.
Nodyn | Note[generalNote]: The section of the catalogue containing Letters in Persian (CR9) is
currently unavailable.
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Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history |Biographical sketch
Nodyn | Note
Robert Clive, governor of Bengal, was the eldest son of Richard and Rebecca Clive (nee Maskell)ofStyche, Shropshire. He was born on 29 September 1725. In 1743 he was appointed a writer with theEast India Company at Madras. He proved to be a quarrelsome colleague and suffered from 'melancholy'which was to plague him for most of his life. During his early years in Madras he twice attempted suicideand fought a duel. The outbreak of hostilities between Britain and France in southern India enabled himto reveal hitherto unsuspected military talent. By the end of his first period in India he had proved himselfa guerrilla commander of genius: he had also amassed a considerable fortune, having been appointed acommissary for the supply of provisions to the troops in 1749. During his first stay in India he marriedMargaret Maskeleyne, daughter of Edmund Maskeleyne of Purton in Wiltshire.After unsuccessfully standing for Parliament he was sent out again to India in 1755 as governor of FortSt. David with the reversion of the governorship of Madras. On his arrival in 1756 he almost immediatelybecame involved with the affairs of Bengal which was ruled by the Mogul viceroys, and under whoseprotection the East India Company carried on its trade. The new nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-Daula, tookCalcutta and Clive set out to relieve the city in October 1756, which he took in January 1757. Insteadof returning to Madras he eliminated the French settlement of Chandernagore and installed Mir Jafar asnawab in place of the hostile Siraj-ud-Daula who was decisively defeated at the battle of Plessey in June1757.His first governorship of Bengal lasted until February 1760 by which time Mir Jafar's authority wasunchallenged in Bengal and Bihar. Clive had also became a very wealthy man. He had received £234,000,a Mogul title and an estate or jagir worth about £30,000 a year. On his return to Britain he was createdBaron Clive of Plessey in 1762, knighted in 1764 and also entered parliament as MP for Shrewsbury in1760, a seat he held until his death in 1774. He also purchased extensive estates mainly in Shropshire,including Montford near Shrewsbury, in 1761, Walcot, near Bishop's Castle, in 1763, and Oakly Park in1771.Clive returned for his third and last stay in India in 1765 and became governor of Bengal for the secondtime. His services in Bengal were required because Mir Jafar had been ousted by Mir Kasim who in turnhad been deposed in 1763. Shah Alam, the Mogul emperor, attacked again and the East India Companyseemed to be on the verge of extinction. It was during this, his second governorship of Bengal, thathis claim as a statesman rests. The Mogul emperor was pacified; Bengal was settled with a grant bythe Mogul of the revenue administration or dewanee of Bengal to the East India Company which gavethe company legal authority to collect the revenues of Bengal and Bihar; the East India Company wasreformed and the instincts of its officers for plunder curtailed, if only for a while; and military disciplinerestored.Clive left India for the last time in February 1767. Soon after his return his enemies, returned nabobs andpoliticians, attacked him and tried to blame him as the instigator of corruption amongst the servants of theEast India Company. He defended himself vigorously and successfully in parliament in 1772. However,the strain on his health proved too much. Already addicted to opium, he committed suicide at his house inLondon on 22 November 1774. He had several children. His eldest son and successor, Edward Clive, wascreated earl of Powis in 1804.
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Hanes Gwarchodol | Custodial history
Clive's papers were originally held in their entirety at Powis Castle together with the records of thePowis estate, (presumably the papers were brought from Clive's various houses and estates to PowisCastle during the late eighteenth century). Part of his archive was loaned by his son Edward to Clive'sbiographer, Sir John Malcolm, who made extensive transcripts during his governorship of Bombay,1827-1830. How much of Clive's papers Malcolm took with him is unclear, though a list of letters andpapers taken by him from Walcot in 1825 is NLW, Powis Castle 12196. The papers loaned to Malcolmwere returned sometime after the biography was completed in 1836 (by an anonymous author, Malcolmhaving died in 1833). Thereafter the transcripts became so inextricably confused with Clive's own papersthat it was not until 1985 that the historian Huw Bowen realised that earlier researchers had used thetranscripts in the mistaken belief that they were originals. Malcolm's transcripts were removed fromClive's papers by NLW in 1999 and are now listed as a separate archive. Most of Clive's incoming letterswere transferred from Powis Castle to the British Library, whilst NLW acquired his copy outgoing letters,Indian financial papers and some estate and personal papers as part of a much larger archive of the Powisestate. Most of Clive's papers were separated from the Powis estate archive at NLW in 1954.
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content
Papers, 1727-1791, relating to both Clive's public and private life but mostly to the former. They includeletter books of outgoing letters sent from both England and India, 1752-1774; Clive's financial records,mainly relating to his financial concerns in India, 1752-1774; estate and household records, 1761-1781;records relating to his official duties in India, particularly as governor of Bengal, including records heacquired of earlier East India Company employees, 1727-1772, political papers, including canvassing listsand poll books, [c.1761]-1775; and records of Clive's trustees and executors, 1774-1791.
Nodiadau | Notes
Nodiadau teitl | Title notes
Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition
Deposited by George William Herbert, seventh earl of Powis in 1952, and by the Trustees of the PowisEstates in January 1990. Both deposits were subsequently purchased from John George Herbert, eighthearl of Powis, in January 1996.; B1996/7.
Trefniant | Arrangement
The papers are arranged into the following groups: India papers, 1727-1772, papers relating to theadministration of Clive's estates, 1762-1780, papers relating to the management of his households,1775-1781, political papers, [c.1761]-1775, papers of Clive's attornies, 1764-1768, papers of histrustees/executors, 1774-1791, and personal papers, 1742-1775.
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Ffurf arall ar gael | Alternative form available
Online version of Clive's India papers only are available on the Library’s website; http://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/collection.php?cid=9781851171859&keywords=
Cyfyngiadau ar fynediad | Restrictions on access
No restrictions.
Amodau rheoli defnydd | Conditions governing use
Usual copyright laws apply.
Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids
A hard copy of the catalogue is available at NLW. A hard copy of an earlier catalogue of the firstdeposit is also available which includes more details about the family correspondence listed here inCR12. A hard copy of a summary list of the 1990 deposit is also available at NLW.
Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material
Further Clive papers, are British Library MSS Eur G 37 and MSS Eur G and see also series leveldescriptions.
Ychwanegiadau | Accruals
Accruals are not expected.
Nodiadau eraill | Other notes
• Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published
Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points
• India (pwnc) | (subject)
Llyfryddiaeth | Bibliography
The papers have provided source material for numerous biographies of Clive and books on India. Theyinclude Malcolm,Sir John, Life of Robert, Lord Clive (London 1836), Forrest, Sir George, Life of LordClive (London 1918), and more recently Bence-Jones, Mark, Clive of India (London 1974), Marshall, P.J., East Indian Fortunes (Oxford University Press 1976) and Harvey, Robert, Clive-The Life and Death ofa British Emperor(London 1998).
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Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions
Cod cyfeirnod | Refcode
Teitl | Title Dyddiadau |Dates
Statws mynediad |Access status
Cynhwysydd |Container
C. vtls004203397(WlAbNL)0000203397
Otherlevel - India papers, 1727-1772(accumulated[c.1743]-1772).
C.
CR. vtls004203700(WlAbNL)0000203700
Otherlevel - India officialcorrespondence,
1752-1774. CR.
Cyfres | Series CR1. vtls004204040 (WlAbNL)0000204040: Letter books of generalletters to Europe and within India,Dyddiad | Date: 1756-1759. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Letter books containing general letters (mostly public but some private) from Clive to correspondentsin Europe but mainly to officers of the East India Company in India. They derive from his secondperiod of residence in India, 1756-1760, when he returned as a lieutenant-colonel and held thepositions of deputy-governor of Fort St David, and governor, for the first time, of Bengal. There arealso some letters from Clive's aides and associates. -- The letters relate to military and naval operationsin Bengal, the restoration of the East India Company's interests there, the East India Company'sfinancial affairs, the capture and recapture of Calcutta, relations with the French and the capture oftheir settlement at Chandernagore, the political and military situation prevailing from the aftermath ofthe capture of Chandernagore to the march on Plassey, including relations with Siraj-ud-daula and MirJafar, and the battle of Plassey.
• East India Company• Mir Jafar, d. 1765 (pwnc) | (subject)• Siraj-Ud-Daula, d. 1757 (pwnc) | (subject)• Bengal (India) (pwnc) | (subject)• Chandenagor (India) (pwnc) | (subject)• Calcutta (India) (pwnc) | (subject)
Trefniant | Arrangement:
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Arranged chronologically.
Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids:
All the volumes are indexed and abstracted in NLW, Sir John Malcolm Papers M10/1.
Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list
Cod cyfeirnod | Refcode
Teitl | Title Dyddiadau |Dates
Statws mynediad |Access status
Cynhwysydd |Container
CR1/1. vtls004239265(WlAbNL)0000239265
File - Letter book: letters to Europe andwithin India
1756, Jan. 31 -Oct. 7.
CR1/1 (Box1).
CR1/2. vtls004239266(WlAbNL)0000239266
File - Letter book: letters to Europe andwithin India,
1756, Oct. 11 -1757, April 16.
CR1/2 (Box1).
CR1/3. vtls004239268(WlAbNL)0000239268
File - Letter book: letters to Europe andwithin India,
1757, Jan. 8 -1759, Oct. 1.
CR1/3 (Box1).
CR1/4. vtls004239271(WlAbNL)0000239271
File - Letter book: letters to Europe andwithin India,
1757, March, 20- April 27.
CR1/4 (Box1).
CR1/5. vtls004239276(WlAbNL)0000239276
File - Letter book: letters to Europe andwithin India,
1757, April 4 -June 11, 1760.
CR1/5 (Box1).
CR1/6. vtls004239278(WlAbNL)0000239278
File - Letter book: letters to Europe andwithin India,
1757, June 15 -July 17.
CR1/6 (Box1).
CR1/7. vtls004239282(WlAbNL)0000239282
File - Letter book: letters to Europe andwithin India,
1757, June 27 -1758, July 15.
CR1/7 (Box1); $q -Front coverdetached.
CR1/8. vtls004239286(WlAbNL)0000239286
File - Letter book: letters to Europe andwithin India,
1757, July 2 -1758, Dec. 30.
CR1/8 (Box2); $q - Pages11-20 areloose and thetears in theenclosure arepartly pastedtogether.
CR1/9. vtls004239292(WlAbNL)0000239292
File - Letter book: letters to Europe andwithin India,
1757, July 19 -Dec. 19.
CR1/9 (Box2).
CR1/10.vtls004239294(WlAbNL)0000239294
File - Letter book: letters to Europe andwithin India
1758, June 21 -1759, Jan. 31.
CR1/10 ((Box2).
CR1/11.vtls004239295(WlAbNL)0000239295
File - Letter book: letters to Europe andwithin India,
1759, Feb. 25 -June 12.
CR1/11 (Box(2).
Cyfres | Series CR2. vtls004239794 (WlAbNL)0000239794: 'Country letter books',Dyddiad | Date: 1765-1767. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Letters sent mainly by Clive within India (but including some from H. S. [Henry Strachey, hissecretary] during his third and final period there including his second governorship of Bengal,1765-1767. The wide range of subject matter provides information about the country's internal politics,the civil and military aspects of Clive's duties as governor and various other matters including Clive'sown private concerns (e.g. his interest in diamonds), the personal fortunes of company servants, and
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the Batta mutiny and the ensuing court martials, April-August, 1766, including the arrest, trial andcourt martial of the mutiny's instigator, Sir Robert Fletcher.
File - Country letter book, 1765, June 10 -July 8.
CR2/2 (Box3).
CR2/3 vtls004239856(WlAbNL)0000239856
File - Country letter book 1765, July 8 -Aug. 28
CR2/3 (Box3).
CR2/4. vtls004239857(WlAbNL)0000239857
File - Country letter book, 1765, Sept. 3 -Oct. 25.
CR2/4 (Box3).
CR2/5 vtls004239858(WlAbNL)0000239858
File - Country letter book 1765, Oct. 28 -Dec. 20
CR2/5 (Box3).
CR2/6. vtls004239859(WlAbNL)0000239859
File - Country letter book, 1765, Dec. 20 -1766, April 9.
CR2/6 (Box3).
CR2/7. vtls004239861(WlAbNL)0000239861
File - Country letter book, 1766, April 12 -May 4.
CR2/7 (Box3).
CR2/8. vtls004239862(WlAbNL)0000239862
File - Country letter book, 1766, May 4 -15.
CR2/8 (Box3).
CR2/9. vtls004239863(WlAbNL)0000239863
File - Country letter book, 1766, May 16 -30.
CR2/9 (Box3).
CR2/10.vtls004239865(WlAbNL)0000239865
File - Country letter book, 1766, May 31 -June 16.
CR2/10 (Box3).
CR2/11.vtls004239867(WlAbNL)0000239867
File - Country letter book, 1766, June 16 -July 7.
CR2/11 (Box3).
CR2/12.vtls004239868(WlAbNL)0000239868
File - Country letter book, 1766, July 7 -Aug. 3.
CR2/12 (Box3).
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CR2/13.vtls004239870(WlAbNL)0000239870
File - Country letter book, 1766, Aug. 4 -Sept. 10.
CR2/13 (Box3).
CR2/14.vtls004239871(WlAbNL)0000239871
File - Country letter book, 1766, Sept. 10 -Oct 4.
CR2/14 (Box3).
CR2/15.vtls004239872(WlAbNL)0000239872
File - Country letter book, 1766, Oct. 6 -24.
CR2/15 (Box3).
CR2/16.vtls004239873(WlAbNL)0000239873
File - Country letter book, 1766, Oct. 25 -1767, Jan. 24.
CR2/16 (Box3).
Cyfres | Series CR3. vtls004368818 (WlAbNL)0000368818: Europe letter books,Dyddiad | Date: 1765. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Letters of both a public and private nature (but mainly the former) sent by Clive at Calcutta to Europeduring his second overnorship of Bengal. In the main the letters contain references to the East IndiaCompany's affairs in India and at home with regard to its revenues, the grant to the Company of theDiwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, the trade in salt, betel nut and tobacco, Clive's civil and militaryreforms and his settlement with Shuja-ud-daula, the Nawab of Oudh. Clive also gives his frank viewson the Company directorship (p. 40), individual directors e.g. Laurence Sulivan in whose defeat at theelection of directors in 1765 he could not 'but rejoice exceedingly' (p. 16). and of Mr[william] Sumner,a member of his Select Committee in Calcutta as his proposed successor in Bengal (pp. 6-8). Othermatters discussed include Clive's financial and domestic affairs including passing references to therefitting of the house at Berkeley Square and repairs to Walcot.
For a nineteenth century transcript see NLW, Sir John Malcolm Papers, M3.The volume is endorsed 'Europe letter book A' and numbered 'D1'.
Nodyn | Note:
Preferred citation: CR3.
Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list
Cod cyfeirnod | Refcode
Teitl | Title Dyddiadau |Dates
Statws mynediad |Access status
Cynhwysydd |Container
CR3/1. vtls004368819(WlAbNL)0000368819
File - Europe letter book, 1765. CR3/1 (Box3).
Cyfres | Series CR4. vtls004368820 (WlAbNL)0000368820: Letter books from Englandto various individuals,Dyddiad | Date: 1767-1774. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
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Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Letter books containing letters from Clive written principally during his final years in England from1767 to 1774 although there are some addressed from Europe which he visited between January andSeptember 1768. For the most part they are addressed to various individuals in England but with theoccasional letter to India and elsewhere. The varied nature of the letters reflects both Clive's ownpersonal and domestic concerns and his continuing interest in Indian affairs after leaving Bengal.Nineteenth century transcripts are NLW, Sir John Malcolm Papers, M4.
Cyfres | Series CR5. vtls004369932 (WlAbNL)0000369932: Letter books: letters writtenfrom England to East India Company directors,Dyddiad | Date: 1767-1774. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Letters addressed to the East India Company's Court of Directors written by Clive mainly during hislast years in England, 1767-1774, but also whilst he was touring Europe in 1768, They allude to theCompany's affairs in Bengal and his own professional and personal concerns arising from his servicethere.
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Arranged chronologically.
Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list
Cod cyfeirnod | Refcode
Teitl | Title Dyddiadau |Dates
Statws mynediad |Access status
Cynhwysydd |Container
CR5/1. vtls004369933(WlAbNL)0000369933
File - Letters to East India Companydirectors,
1767, Aug. 28 -1773, Jan. 2.
CR5/1(Box 4).
CR5/2. vtls004370053(WlAbNL)0000370053
File - Letters to East India Companydirectors,
1773, Jan. 20 -1774, June 17.
CR5/2 (Box4).
Cyfres | Series CR6 vtls004370054 (WlAbNL)0000370054: India Letter Books: lettersfrom England to India,Dyddiad | Date: 1767-1773. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Letters, 1767-1773, written by Clive from England and France mainly to India. The subject matterranges from East India Company affairs and Clive's continuing interests in Bengal to events inEngland.
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Preferred citation: CR7.
Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material:
For a more comprehensive list of Clive's official correspondence and papers as a whole, see R6/1. Anindex to Clive's letter books, 1756-1759 and 1767-1774, with abstracts of the letters, 1756-1774, isNLW Sir John Malcolm Papers 10/1.
Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list
Cod cyfeirnod | Refcode
Teitl | Title Dyddiadau |Dates
Statws mynediad |Access status
Cynhwysydd |Container
CR7/1. vtls004382708(WlAbNL)0000382708
File - Index to letter books, 1765-1767. CR7/1; $q- Damagedby damp butthe text is notsignificantlyimpaired..
CR7/2. vtls004382709(WlAbNL)0000382709
File - List of letters received by Clive, 1765-1767. CR7/2 (Box4).
Cyfres | Series CR8. vtls004382074 (WlAbNL)0000382074: Registers of 'CountryCorrespondence Letters Received & Sent' ,Dyddiad | Date: 1756-1758. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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 theysurvived, 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 hisarrival in Bengal in 1756 until his appointment as governor in 1758. The period of the register saw therecapture of Calcutta (Jan 1757), the capture of Chandernagore from the French (March 1757), the trueand fictitious treaty with Mir Jafar (May 1757) and the battle of Plassey (June 1757).
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• Calcutta (India) (pwnc) | (subject)
Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list
Cod cyfeirnod | Refcode
Teitl | Title Dyddiadau |Dates
Statws mynediad |Access status
Cynhwysydd |Container
CR8/1. vtls004382100(WlAbNL)0000382100
File - Register of CountryCorrespondence letters received and sent,
1756-1758. CR8/1 (Boxes5).
Cyfres | Series CR10 vtls004394135 (WlAbNL)0000394135: Abstracts of letters sent byClive in IndiaDyddiad | Date: 1765 (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A notebook covering the first months of Clive's second governorship of Bengal containing abstractsof letters/communications sent by him, mainly to army officers and staff of the East India Company,relating mainly to routine affairs such as visits, escorting dignitaries, etc. The volume is endorsed:'Note Book Commencing 13th May 1765'.
CR10/1 (Box4); $q - Frontcover and andthe final threepages of indexare detached..
Cyfres | Series CR11 vtls004394137 (WlAbNL)0000394137: Minutes of 'CountryCorrespondence'Dyddiad | Date: 1766 (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Minutes (i.e. summaries) of all the extant 'Country Correspondence' (fifty eight letters in all) that Clivereceived from Indian rulers (named) between 26 December 1765 and 24 May 1766, translated andcompiled by Robert Maddison, Persian translator, on 16 Dec. 1766. The subject matter reflects thecountry's internal politics, Clive's relations with its rulers and the prevailing military situation.
A note by Robert Maddison indicates that the series is incomplete because some of the letters were'lost at Chuprats by a Robbery committed there upon the Manskees in whose Custody they then were.'
Nodyn | Note:
Preferred citation: CR11
Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list
Cod cyfeirnod | Refcode
Teitl | Title Dyddiadau |Dates
Statws mynediad |Access status
Cynhwysydd |Container
CR11/1 vtls004394138(WlAbNL)0000394138
File - Minutes of 'CountryCorrespondence'
1766, Dec. 16 CR11/1 (Box4).
CC vtls004394685(WlAbNL)0000394685
Otherlevel - Contemporary transcripts ofofficial India correspondence
1763-1764 CC.
Cyfres | Series CC1 vtls004649169: Contemporary transcripts of private letters,Dyddiad | Date: 1763. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Transcripts, 1763, of letters (and other documents), 1756-1760, from Clive to his relations (exceptfor a cousin who was with him in India) and others in Europe relating to events in India and personalbusiness matters. including letters from Clive at Bombay, Calcutta, Fort Gheria and camp nearChandernagore to ‘Honourable Sir’ [his father] referring to the capture of Gheria [Feb. 1756] (f.1v) and Chandernagore [March 1757] (f. 2v), the Battle of Plassey [June 1757] (ff. 2v-3r), and hisambitions to be Governor General of India (f. 2r); to Mr Justice Clive [Clive's cousin, Edward, Judgeof the Court of Common Pleas] concerning the purchase for him of an estate ‘60 miles from London’;to his agents/bankers in London and Sir Joshua Van Neck regarding financial affairs includingnegotiations for bills of exchange on the Dutch East India Company (with related correspondencebetween Sir Joshua Van Neck and John Vynantz, Amsterdam, and minutes of meetings of hisattorneys); letters to and from George Clive (Clive's cousin who was with him in India) relating tofinancial matters and Clive's affairs in India; and accounts of sums realised on Dutch assignats.
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CC1/1 vtls004649170 File - Contemporary transcripts of privateletters,
(c.1763). CC1/1.
Cyfres | Series CC2 vtls004649174: Contemporary transcripts of countrycorrespondence to be kept by the Governor[of Bengal],Dyddiad | Date: 1763, (1st Series). (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Incomplete series of volumes of transcripts, 1763, of the official correspondence between Clive, asgovernor of Bengal, and the native Indian rulers from 1758 to 1760. Collectively they provide animportant source material for the country's internal affairs, Clive's relations with its leaders and hisfirst term as governor. Much of the correspondence relates to Anglo- French- Indian relations, wars,rebellions and infighting between Indian rulers and to the collection of revenues for the East IndiaCompany.
Disgrifiad ffisegol | Physical description: 19 folio pamphlets. In all, the letters total 1080. The series is notcomplete in that only nineteen of the original twenty four sections are present.
The five sections missing in this series are in CC3. Original letters from Clive to his Europeanassociates in India during his first governorship, 1758-1760, are in CR1/8 and CR1/10-11.
Nodyn | Note:
Sections 7-24 (insofar as they are present) are endorsed: ‘Examind wth the Original wch was[Del]ivere[d] to Mr James Sec[re]t[ar]y to ye E[ast] I[ndia] Company 14th [and 15th] Septr 1763’.
Nodyn | Note:
Preferred citation: CC2
Trefniant | Arrangement:
Chronological. Each pamphlet/volume constitutes a section in which the correspondence isindividually and consecutively numbered.
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CC2/1 vtls004649299 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/1.
CC2/2 vtls004649303 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/2.
CC2/3 vtls004649311 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/3.
CC2/4 vtls004649337 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/4.
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CC2/5 vtls004649348 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/5.CC2/5.
CC2/6 vtls004649432 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/6.
CC2/7 vtls004649466 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/7.
CC2/8 vtls004649472 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/8.
CC2/9 vtls004649487 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/9.
CC2/10 vtls004649492 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/10.
CC2/11 vtls004649497 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/11.
CC2/12 vtls004649499 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/12.
CC2/13 vtls004649502 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/13.
CC2/13 vtls004649504 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/13.
CC2/14 vtls004649505 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/14.
CC2/15 vtls004649506 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/15.
CC2/16 vtls004649507 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/16.
CC2/17 vtls004649509 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/17.
CC2/18 vtls004649514 File - Transcripts of Countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/18.
CC2/19 vtls004649516 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC2/19.
Cyfres | Series CC3 vtls004649615: Contemporary transcripts of countrycorrespondence to be kept by the Governor [of Bengal],Dyddiad | Date: 1763, (2nd Series). (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Transcripts 1763, of the official correspondence between Clive, as Governor of Bengal, and the nativeIndian rulers from 16 July to 3 Dec. 1759 similar in content to CC2.
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Trefniant | Arrangement:
Chronological
Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material:
The series completes the gaps in the first series (CC2). These, however, are not strays from the firstseries but part of a further series of twenty four contemporary copies that were compiled in 1763.
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CC3/1 vtls004649629 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC3/1.
CC3/2 vtls004649686 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC3/2.
CC3/3 vtls004649689 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763.
CC3/4 vtls004649692 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763.
CC3/5 vtls004649705 File - Transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763.
Cyfres | Series CC4 vtls004649713: Duplicates of contemporary transcripts of countrycorrespondence to be kept by the Governor [of Bengal],Dyddiad | Date: 1763. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Duplicates, 1763, of the transcripts of sections 1-6 in CC2.
CC4/1 vtls004649717 File - Duplicate transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC4/1.
CC4/2 vtls004649909 File - Duplicate transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC4/2.
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CC4/3 vtls004649912 File - Duplicate transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC4/3.
CC4/4 vtls004649988 File - Duplicate transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC4/4.
CC4/5 vtls004649990 File - Duplicate transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC4/5.
CC4/6 vtls004649994 File - Duplicate transcripts of countrycorrespondence,
1763. CC4/6.
CF vtls004649999 Otherlevel - India financial papers, 1752-1774. CF.
Cyfres | Series CF1 vtls004650024: Journals of India accounts,Dyddiad | Date: 1757-1759. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Journals, 1757-1759, relating to Clive’s second residence in India (including his first period asgovernor of Bengal) including accounts headed Bengal expedition, committee money, charges general(including his salary), remittances to England, interest bonds, profit and loss (including the receipt ofcard debts), chaise and horses, plate and jewels, life annuities and investments in ships.
The corresponding ledgers are in CF7. Accounts relating to Clive's second governorship are in CF3.
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CF1/1 vtls004650031 File - Journal of India accounts, 1757, Dec.—1758, Dec.
CF1/1.
CF1/2 vtls004650037 File - Journal of India accounts, 1759, Jan. 1. CF1/2.
Cyfres | Series CF2 vtls004650042: Journals of general accounts England and India,Dyddiad | Date: 1763-1774. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Journals, 1763-1774, containing accounts relating to the purchase and management (repairs, buildingwork, 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 Parliamentfor the Llangollen and Bishops Castle Turnpikes and to his tour of France; bank and life annuities,
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(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 expensespreparatory to and during Clive’s voyage; his jagir money collected and remitted from India by HenryVansittart; bonds of the governor and council of Calcutta in the custody of General Carnac; bills on theEast India Company; India stock; debts due to and from Clive in Bengal; and diamonds from Bengaland Madras.
Although these journals cover Clive's last residence in Bengal, 1765-1767, there are further, separate,accounts for those years in CF3. The corresponding ledgers are in CF8; drafts of some of thejournals are in CF5 and cash books corresponding to the first and third volumes are in CF12. Furtherhousehold/family accounts are group H.
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CF2/1 vtls004650047 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1763, Jan. 1—Dec. 31.
CF2/1. CF2/1.
CF2/2 vtls004650051 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1764, Jan. 1—April 30.
CF2/2.
CF2/3 vtls004650054 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1764, May 1—June 8.
CF/3.
CF2/4 vtls004650189 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1764, June 9-1765, Sept. 30.
CF2/4.
CF2/5 vtls004650190 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1765, Sept. 30—Dec. 31.
CF2/5.
CF2/6 vtls004650194 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1766, Jan 1—1767, July 15.
CF2/6.
CF2/7 vtls004650203 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1767, July 15—1768, Feb.29.
CF2/7.
CF2/8 vtls004650209 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1768, Feb. 29—Dec. 31.
CF2/8.
CF2/9 vtls004650212 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1769, Jan. 1—June 30.
CF2/9.
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CF2/10 vtls004650214 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1769, July 1—1770, June 30.
CF2/10.
CF2/11 vtls004650216 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1770, July 1—1771, June. 30.
CF2/11.
CF2/12 vtls004650218 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1771, July 1—1772, June 30.
CF2/13 vtls004650222 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1772, July 1—1773, Nov. 24.
CF2/13.
CF2/14 vtls004650226 File - Journals of general accountsEngland and India,
1773, Nov. 25. -1774, Dec. 31.
CF2/14.
Cyfres | Series CF3 vtls004650231: Journals of Lord Clive's concerns in Bengal,Dyddiad | Date: 1765-1766. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Volumes containing details of Clive's financial transactions during his second governorship ofBengal from 4th May 1765 until 31st Dec. 1766. The varied nature of the accounts is reflected in thedifferent heads under which they are listed. These include travelling expenses from Europe, company'sallowances, wearing apparel, charges general, table expenses, governor's duties (e.g. receipt of mintoffice duties), account ‘Nazeranny’ relating to the receipt and sale of nazars i.e. money or valuables(e.g. elephants) presented to a superior when granted an audience, joint salt concerns, jewels, gold,Society of Trade's certificates, company's interest bonds.
Ledgers corresponding to the first two journals are in CF9. A single cash book corresponding to thesame two journals is in CF13. Accounts relating to Clive's first governorship are in CF1.
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CF3/1 vtls004650328 File - Journals of Lord Clive's concernsin Bengal,
1765, May 4—1766, April 30.
CF3/1.
CF3/2 vtls004650329 File - Journals of Lord Clive's concernsin Bengal,
1766, May 1—Dec. 31.
CF3/2.
CF3/3 vtls004650330 File - Journals of Lord Clive's concernsin Bengal,
1765, May [ ]—1766, Dec. 31.
CF3/3.
Cyfres | Series CF4 vtls004650331: Contemporary copy journals of India accounts,
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Dyddiad | Date: 1757-1758. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A contemporary copy, 1757-1758, of India accounts in CF1.
Cyfres | Series CF5 vtls004650466: Draft journals of general accounts England andIndia,Dyddiad | Date: 1764, 1769-1774. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Draft/incomplete versions, 1764, of entries in CF2/2 and CF8/2, and drafts, 1769-1774, of entriesrecorded in the journals CF2/10-14.
CF5/1 vtls004650622 File - Draft journal of general accountsEngland and India,
1764, Jan. 1 –April 17.
CF5/1.
CF5/2 vtls004650626 File - Draft journal of general accountsEngland and India,
1769, July 1—1772, June 30.
CF5/2.
CF5/3 vtls004650661 File - Draft journal of general accountsEngland and India,
1772, Aug. 31—1774, Dec.31.
CF5/3.
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Cyfres | Series CF6 vtls004650664: Ledgers of diamond accounts,Dyddiad | Date: 1755-1757. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A ledger, 1755-1757 (possibly the sole survivor of a series of similar ledgers) giving details of Clive'sdealings in diamonds and other gems. The ledger gives the names of those with whom he dealt and arearranged under separate sections for rough diamonds, diamonds, ‘Dutch small Brillts’, rose diamonds,rubies, sapphires and diamonds English. Included are two loose accounts, 1746-1751, and 1754, theformer dating back to Clive's first period in India. The volume itself derives mainly from Clive'ssecond period in India but commences a little earlier when he was still in England.
The ledgers are endorsed ‘A-M.’ Ledger D is a single volume whereas the corresponding journals inCF2 cover two volumes which explains why there are thirteen ledgers to fourteen journals.
Nodyn | Note:
Preferred citation: CF8
Trefniant | Arrangement:
Chronological.
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CF8/1 vtls004650681 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1763, Jan.1—Dec. 31.
CD8/1.
CF8/2 vtls004650682 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1764, Jan.1—April 30.
CF8/2.
CF8/3 vtls004650772 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1764, May 1—June 8.
CF8/4 vtls004650776 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1764, June 9—1765, Dec. 31.
CD8/4.
CF8/5 vtls004650781 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1766, Jan. 1—1767, July. 15.
CF8/5.
CF8/6 vtls004650784 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1767, July 15—1768, Dec. 31.
CF8/6.
CF8/7 vtls004650790 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1767, July 15—1768, Dec. 31.
CF8/7.
CF8/8 vtls004650802 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1769, Jan. 1—June 30.
CF8/8.
CF8/9 vtls004650806 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1769, July 1—1770, June 30.
CD8/9.
CF8/10 vtls004650808 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1770, July 1—1771, June 30.
CF8/10.
CF8/11 vtls004650813 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1771, July 1—1772, June 30.
CF8/11.
CF8/12 vtls004650817 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1772, July 1—1773, Nov. 24.
CF8/12.
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CF8/13 vtls004650819 File - Ledger of general accountsEngland and India,
1773, Nov. 25—1774, Dec.31.
CF8/13.
Cyfres | Series CF10 vtls004650843: Contemporary copy ledgers of India accounts,Dyddiad | Date: 1757-1758. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
The volume covering 1 Jan.-30 April 1764, which would have corresponded to the journal CF2/2 andthe ledger CF8/2, is missing.
Nodyn | Note:
Preferred citation: CF12
Trefniant | Arrangement:
Chronological.
Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material:
The corresponding journals and ledgers are CF2/1 and C F2/3 and CF8/1 and CF8/3, respectively.
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CF12/1 vtls004650866 File - Cash book of general accounts, 1763, Jan. 1—Dec. 31.
CF12/1.
CF12/2 vtls004650872 File - Cash book of general accounts, 1764, May 1—June 9.
CF12/2.
Cyfres | Series CF13 vtls004651256: Cash books of Lord Clive's concerns in Bengal,Dyddiad | Date: 1765-1766. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A cash book, 1765-1766, of monthly receipts and expenditure from Clive's second period as governorof Bengal which corresponds to the relevant journals and ledgers in CF3 and CF9.
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Preferred citation: CF13
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CF13/1 vtls004651261 File - Cash books of Lord Clive'sConcerns in Bengal,
1765, May—1766, Dec.,
CF13/1.
Cyfres | Series CF14 vtls004651264: Miscellaneous cash account books,Dyddiad | Date: 1756-1763 (lacking 1758-1761). (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A volume of miscellaneous accounts comprising a cash ledger and banker's book combined in a singlevolume. It includes personal accounts (clothing accessories, funeral rings, jewellery, diamonds, plate,etc., ) for 1756-1757, and bank accounts with Honeywood, Fuller & Co., for 1762-1763, and pertainsrespectively to Clive's second periods of residence in India and England.
Cyfres | Series CF15 vtls004651270: Bills books,Dyddiad | Date: 1756-1758. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A volume, 1756-1758, of ‘Bills Payable’ and ‘Bills Receivable’ deriving from Clive's second period inIndia. The details, in tabular form, include the names of those by whom the bills were drawn, to whomthey were payable, their date, time span, when they became due and the sum involved.
CA1/1 vtls004651522 File - Revenue accounts and reports, 1758. CA1/1.CA1/2 vtls004651538 File - Revenue accounts and reports, 1765, Aug. 18
—1766, June26.
CA1/2.
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CA1/3 vtls004651555 File - Revenue accounts and reports, 1766, March 27—Aug.
CA1/3.
Cyfres | Series CA2 vtls004651620: East India Company establishment and non-establishment lists,Dyddiad | Date: 1766. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Lists of Company servants and European civilians in Bengal in 1766.
Official notice, 30 June 1766, relating to the establishment of a gold currency in Bengal together witha note, [c. 1764], from Mr. Holt, East India House, to[Henry] Strachey relating to ‘Claims on theNabob for Restitution on account of Salt’ and a draft proposal, [c. 1766] concerning the prohibition of‘dastaks’ (free passes for the Company’s trade) to junior servants.
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CA3/1 vtls004651937 File - Currency reform and trade, [c. 1764]—1766.
CA3/1.
CB vtls004651941 Otherlevel - Military administration ofBengal,
[c 1750s]-1771. CB.
Cyfres | Series CB1 vtls004651943: Army returns companies and casualties,Dyddiad | Date: [c. 1750s], 1760, 1764-1767. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Weekly, monthly and general returns of troops, ordnance, ammunition sepoys, lascars, coolies andartificers etc. relating to the various companies making up the East India Company’s army for theyears [c. 1750s], 1760 and 1764-1767 with the notable exception of one return [c. 1757] relating toFrench army casualties. The companies’ returns include a roll, [c. 1750s], of the detachment of theCompany’s troops victualled by Ensign Davies at Trivady [presumably during the war in the Carnaticknown also as Dupleix’s war, 1749-1754], a return, 1760, of troops, etc., at Rajmahal under thecommand of Major John Caillaud (1724-1812), [presumably during the defence of Patna, 1759-1761],and returns, 1765-1767, of the three brigades established by Clive’s reforms of the military underthe commands of Sir Robert Barker, General Carnac and Colonel Richard Smith and stationed atPatna and Allahabad. There are also returns, 1764 and [1765?], of the Company’s troops on boardthe Prince of Wales (at the Cape of Good Hope) and the Speke. The returns are mostly statistical butsometimes give the names of the troops and even their country of origin. The casualty return relates tothe numbers of French killed and wounded at Chandernagore, [post 1757, March 23].
CB1/1 vtls004651945 File - Companies and casualties, [c. 1750s]—1767, Jan.
CB1/1.
Cyfres | Series CB2 vtls004652087: Army returns Fort William and Bengal generally,Dyddiad | Date: 1765-1767. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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Weekly, monthly and general returns of troops, ordnance, ammunition sepoys, lascars, cooliesand artificers etc., of the garrison at Fort William, Calcutta (including its detachments to Patnaand at Allahabad), and of the troops in general on the Bengal establishment during Clive’s secondgovernorship, 1765-1767.
Cyfres | Series CB4 vtls004652780: Regulations and general orders,Dyddiad | Date: [c.1766]. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Scope and content: Original and contemporary copy regulations and general orders with regard tothe military, artillery and sepoys in Bengal, staff and other officers’ pay and allowances, and thedifference in pay between the military in the Royal Forces and the Company’s service.
CSA vtls004652968 Otherlevel - Calcutta council and itscommittees,
1757-1768. CSA.
Cyfres | Series CSA1 vtls004652970: Consultations of council,Dyddiad | Date: 1765. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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Extracts from the consultations (i.e. the minutes, resolutions and correspondence) of the council fromMay -Sept. 1765. They relate to the appointment of field officers, the acceptance by councillors ofpresents from Indian princes contrary to Company regulations, a dispute concerning the powers of theselect committee, and the grant of the Diwani (i.e. the right to collect the revenue) of Bengal, Biharand Orissa to the Company, 12 Aug. 1765.
CSA1/1 vtls004652975 File - Consultations of council, 1765, May 6—Sept. 9.
CSA1/1.
Cyfres | Series CSA2 vtls004659496: Indexes to council consultations,Dyddiad | Date: 1766. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Alphabetical index to the consultations for 1766, the consultations themselves not being present. Inaddition to references to individual persons and places, there are entries headed inter alia companyservants, Europe ships, fortifications and repair, hospital, import warehouse keeper, military,paymasters, president, rents and revenues, salt farms, surgeons, treasury and zamindar (collector ofrevenue).
Endorsed ‘34’, suggesting that it is a sole survivor of a series of similar indexes, and with the note:‘NB. No regard must be had to the Pageing of this Index as it was intended for a Separate Sett’.
Nodyn | Note:
Preferred citation: CSA2
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CSA2/1 vtls004659508 File - Indexes to consultations, 1766. CSA2/1.
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Cyfres | Series CSA3 Proceedings of the council, 1768. vtls004659548: Proceedings ofthe council,Dyddiad | Date: 1768. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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 (orhis successor as governor of Bengal) of the ship Tetenbien belonging to the King of Pegu [in Burma].
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CSA4/1 vtls004659682 File - Proceedings of the selectcommittee,
1765, May 7—1765, June 11.
Endorsed: ‘50’ and‘Duplicate No. 1’.
CSA4/1.
CSA4/2 vtls004659692 File - Proceedings of the selectcommittee,
1765, June 11—1765, June 21.
CSA4/2.
CSA4/3 vtls004659702 File - Proceedings of the selectcommittee,
1765, June 21—1765, Aug. 10.
CSA4/3.
CSA4/4 vtls004659705 File - Proceedings of the selectcommittee,
1765, Aug. 10—1765, Sept. 7.
CSA4/4.
Cyfres | Series CSA5 vtls004659714: Proceedings of the committee of inspection,Crëwr | Creator:
Dyddiad | Date: 1766. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Proceedings of the committee from its constitution on 18 March 1766 to 6 Nov. 1766, includingreports and accounts of officers such as the military Paymaster General containing abstracts of pay tosepoys, lascars, artificers and coolies, returns of casualties, a list of assistants and servants employed inthe fort, charges relating to repairs and merchandize and particulars of marine disbursements.
CSA5/1 vtls004659723 File - Proceedings of the committee ofinspection,
1766, March 18—Nov. 6.
CSA5/1.
Cyfres | Series CSA6 vtls004659745: Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of thecouncil and committees,Dyddiad | Date: 1757-1759, 1763, 1765-1767. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Copy, duplicate and draft correspondence and papers, 1757-1759, 1765-1767 relating to the counciland committee business. It includes a copy of Clive’s general letter to the Company replying tothe 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, dated1757-1758, sent in the Company’s secret committee’s packet to the select committee at Fort Williamand communications, 1759 and 1763, between the Fort William council and the chiefs at Luckipor.
Cyfres | Series CSB1 vtls004659757: East Indies courts of justice charters,Dyddiad | Date: [c. 1765]. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A manuscript copy, [c. 1765], of the charter of 8 Jan. 1753 (26 George 11) establishing courts ofjustice in the East Indies concluding with (pp 75-80) a special reference to the Calcutta court in theform of a ‘Table to the Charter so far as Relates to the Mayors Court’.
Cyfres | Series CSB2 vtls004659761: Proceedings of the mayor’s court,Dyddiad | Date: 1766. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A copy, 20 Oct. 1766, of the proceedings of a meeting of the court held on 1 Oct. 1766 devotedexclusively to the public oath and bond taken and executed by Clive as governor to refrain fromengaging in trade and sworn as a precedent to future governors. They bear the seal of the court and thesignatures of James Lister, the mayor, and John Holme, the register.
CD vtls004660155 Otherlevel - East India Company records, 1752-1772. CD.
Cyfres | Series CD1 vtls004660158: Charters,Dyddiad | Date: [c 1753]-[c 1758]. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Copies, [c 1753]-[c 1758] of charters granted to the Company between 1753 and 1758 and of officialcorrespondence relating to charters dating from 1727.
Cyfres | Series CD3 vtls004683709: Company account books,Dyddiad | Date: 1767-1770. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Copies and abstracts of accounts and financial estimates, etc., compiled from the Company’s officialbooks by officers in London between Jan. 1767 and Nov. 1770. The actual accounts together withprojections, however, date from 1752 to 1772. They include accounts of the duties paid on East Indiagoods, the value of exports, the expenses connected with the Company’s settlements, its sundryexpenses incurred on account of the wars in the East Indies from 1754 to 1766, its use and victuallingof royal forces, the sums granted to it by Parliament, the state of its debts and credits, and an estimateof cargoes and details of its revenues from Bengal and other districts.
The fact that Clive had resigned the Company’s service and left for England in January 1767 whenthe first of the copies were made, possibly suggests that they were compiled or used as evidence to theparliamentary enquiry of 1772-1773 which looked into Clive’s management of affairs in Bengal.
Nodyn | Note:
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Trefniant | Arrangement:
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Cyfres | Series CE1 vtls004683965: Jagir grant and related papers,Dyddiad | Date: 1758-1761. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Original perwannah [grant], June 1759, of Clive’s jagir together with a translation and ‘copies of otherpapers, [1758-1761], relative to the transactions in Bengal’.
Cyfres | Series CE3 vtls004684100: Jagir correspondence,Dyddiad | Date: 1767. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A notebook/letter book containing nine letters, each dated 3 Oct. 1767, from Clive at Walcot toindividual Company directors to thanking them for supporting the motion at the General Court for theextension of his jagir
Cyfres | Series CG1 vtls004686112: Journals of Henry Harnett,Dyddiad | Date: 1727-1729. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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 hispersonal accounts, his respondentia loans secured on ships’ cargoes and his interests (describedas ‘adventures’) in internal trade. The journals cover the years from 1727 to 1729, but the earliesttransactions date back to 1725.
CG2/1 vtls004686621 File - Ledger of Henry Harnett, 1727. CG2/1.CG2/2 vtls004686634 File - Ledger of Henry Harnett, 1727. CG2/2.CG2/3 vtls004686637 File - Ledger of Henry Harnett, 1727. CG2/3.
Cyfres | Series CG3 vtls004686645: Voyage journals of Henry Doidge and others,Dyddiad | Date: 1757-1759. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A fair copy journal, 1757-1759, containing a daily account of a passage by sea and land from Bengalto England undertaken by Henry Doidge, Edward Ives [ secretary and naval surgeon respectively toAdmiral Watson], and John Pye [presumably Captain Pye who, with the others, accompanied Cliveon the expedition to Bengal, 1756-1757]. It also records the various legs or stages of the journeye.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.
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Custodial history: The papers of Clive’s attorneys in Group A show that the journal was forwarded bythem from England to Clive in India as part of a packet of books and pamphlets in May 1766.
Nodyn | Note:
Preferred citation: CG3
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CG3/1 vtls004686649 File - Voyage journal of Henry Doidgeand others,
1757, Nov. 19—1759, Feb.18.
CG3/1.
Cyfres | Series CG4 vtls004686653: Papers of William Dobbins,Dyddiad | Date: [c. 1760]-[c. 1763]. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Papers, [c. 1760]-[c. 1763], of William Dobbins [an east India Company servant?] comprising hiscurrent account with the Nawab and a list of persons ‘who lent money to William Dobbins when inNabob’s Service’.
CG4/1 vtls004686687 File - Papers of William Dobbins, [c. 1760-1763]. CG4/1.E vtls004686693 Otherlevel - Estate administration, 1761-1780. E.EG vtls004686699 Otherlevel - General estate, 1766-1768. EG.
Cyfres | Series EG1 vtls004686711: Stewards' journals,Dyddiad | Date: 1766-1768. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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 receivedand expended by Thomas Wingfield and Caleb Powell, stewards, respectively, of the Shropshire andIrish estates. Although the details pertain officially to the two years from December 1766 to December1768, the earliest entry refers to an account dating back to 1764. The accounts relate to rents and
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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 theShropshire estates, 1763-1767, the other of receipts and expenses, 1766-1767, connected with Walcotmansion and demesne submitted to Mr. Wingfield by John Coston".
Cyfres | Series EG2 vtls004686910: Stewards ledgers,Dyddiad | Date: 1766-1768. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
The series comprises a ledger, 1766-1768, corresponding to the journal EG1/1. Presumably this alsorepresents the only surviving volume of a series of similar ledgers.
EU vtls004686916 Otherlevel - Usk/Trelleck estate, 1767-1772. EU.
Cyfres | Series EU1 vtls004686968: Rentals,
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Dyddiad | Date: 1768-1770. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Rentals, 1768-1770, of cottages and other properties in the lordships of Usk and Trelleck in the townof 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 namesof landlords and tenants, the name (including field names), extent, and location (by parish) of theproperty, its value, observations/remarks on its ‘quality’ (i.e. condition, physical characteristics anduse) and the amount of rent payable.
Cyfres | Series EU2 vtls004689407: Rough particulars and abstracts of particulars,Dyddiad | Date: 1767, 1770-1771. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Particulars, 1767 -1771, of the lordships of Usk and Trelleck giving names of landlords andtenants, 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 amountof rent payable and contain details similar to those given in the rentals EU1. They pertain collectivelyto 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'sestate.
Cyfres | Series EU4 vtls004689684: Field books,Dyddiad | Date: [c. 1770]. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A field book [c. 1770], containing references to lands in the lordships of Usk and Trelleck. It gives thereference number, name, location and acreage of the property and the name of the holder of the tenure.
EU5/1 vtls004689782 File - Rough buildings and repairsaccounts,
[c. 1770]. EU5/1.
Cyfres | Series EU6 vtls004689788: Papers relating to purchase, sale and estateappointments, etc.,Dyddiad | Date: 1767-1772. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Papers, 1767-1772, relating to the conveyance of the estate (including a copy agreement, 6 Jan. 1772,for its sale to the Duke of Beaufort) together with the appointments, 8 July 1768, of a chief stewardand a constable of the castles of Usk and Trelleck.
Cyfres | Series EW1 vtls004689983: Walcot estate,Dyddiad | Date: 1763-1766 (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Papers concerning purchases and sales of the Walcot estate, 1763-1766, which Clive purchased fromthe Walcot family in 1763, together with papers relating to joinery work and renovations on the estatein Shropshire and Radnorshire, 1763.
Further papers relating to the estate, 1774-1779, are National Archives, C109, Boxes 74, 76.
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EW1/1 vtls004689994 Item - Papers relating to purchase andsales,
1763-1764,1766
EW1/1.
EW1/2 vtls004689997 File - Joiners' day books, 1765, Aug. 17—Dec. 14.
EW1/2.
EW1/3 vtls004690001 File - Papers relating to renovations, 1763-1765. EW1/3.
Sub-sub-fonds ED vtls004690009: Okehampton estate,Dyddiad | Date: [pre 1767], 1771-1778. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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Rentals, 1771-1778, and surveys of estates in and near the borough of Okehampton, Devon, whichClive purchased from Thomas Pitt, M.P. for the borough, and from John Hippisley Coxe followinghis final return from India in 1767. The surveys are of pre-1767 date and relate to the period of Pitt’sownership of the estate. The rentals, beginning in 1771, extend to 1778, those that post-date Clive’sdeath (1774) reflecting the work of Clive’s trustees.
Cyfres | Series ED3 vtls004690106: Cox estate, Okehampton, rentals,Dyddiad | Date: 1773-1778. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Original and fair copy rentals, 1773-1778, of one fourth part of an estate in Okehampton purchased byClive from Mr. John Hippisley Cox in Michaelmas 1773.
Cyfres | Series ED5 vtls004690446: Surveys,Dyddiad | Date: [pre 1767]. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A survey of the estate when it was in the ownership of Thomas Pitt [pre 1767]. The details giveninclude the names of the tenants, the tenements they hold and by whom occupied and rented, the livesin being, their ages, improved yearly rent, heriots, referred yearly rents, years purchase and computedvalue of Mr. Pitt’s interest.
Disgrifiad ffisegol | Physical description: 1 vol. Loose folios folded to form an unbound volume.
Cyfres | Series EC1 vtls004690536: Stated accounts,
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Dyddiad | Date: 1771-1774. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Incomplete series of stated accounts, 1771-1774, relating inter alia to brewing, baking, coals andcharcoal, Claremont establishment, Claremont estate, Esher bridge, labourers' and servants' wages,crops, livestock, improvement of lands, new road and enclosure, the pleasure grounds and works andrepairs.
Cyfres | Series EC2 vtls004690658: Rebuilding accounts and papers,Dyddiad | Date: 1772-1780. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Accounts, estimates, correspondence, and observations, etc., 1772-1780, relating to the rebuilding ofClaremont and correspondence and papers, 1777, concerning a dispute between Clive's executors andLancelot ‘Capability’ Brown whom Clive had engaged as architect.
EL1/1 vtls004690671 File - Purchase of Leigh estate, 1762. EL1/1.EL1/2 vtls004690675 File - Purchase of Montford and Oakly
Park estates,1761-1773. EL1/2.
H vtls004690680 Otherlevel - Household management, 1755-1774. H.
Cyfres | Series H1 vtls004690683: General household and personal account books,Dyddiad | Date: 1760-1764. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Account books (receipts and expenditure), 1760-1764, containing original and duplicate versionsof Clive's account with Henry Clive, relating to household, personal and family expenses and socialengagements such as attendance at balls, concerts and plays, and visits to various coffee houses, racemeetings and the pump room at Bath.
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Chronological.
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H1/1 vtls004690688 File - General household and personalaccount book,
1760, Aug. 1 –1761, June 7.
H1/1.
H1/2 vtls004690779 File - General household and personalaccount book,
1761, June 9—1763, Dec.31.
H1/2.
H1/3 vtls004691221 File - General household and personalaccount book,
1761, June9-1763, June 29.
H1/3.
H1/4 vtls004693518 File - General household and personalaccount book,
1764, Jan. 7—May 31.
H1/4.
Cyfres | Series H2 vtls004693523: Clothing account books,Dyddiad | Date: 1760-1761. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
An account book, 1760-1761, containing details of payments made to Thomas. Harris [tailor] formaking clothes (materials specified) for Clive himself, for members of his family and for members ofhis household.
H2/1 vtls004693532 File - Clothing account book, 1760, July 12—1761, Aug. 8.
H2/1.
Cyfres | Series H3 vtls004693537: Furnishings/fittings account books,Dyddiad | Date: 1760-1761. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
An account book, 1760-1761, of payments totalling over £900 made to George Smith Bradshaw forfurnishing Clive's houses (not identified) but probably his town houses, including that in BerkleySquare. The accounts, in the form of an inventory, record the furnishings and fittings room by roomand are receipted for £800 by G. S. Bradshaw on 8th Aug. 1761. The work and costs involved aredescribed in a separate ‘Jobbing Account’ (pp. 11-14).
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Nodyn | Note:
Preferred citation: H3
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H3/1 vtls004693544 File - Furnishings/fittings account books, 1760, Aug. 15—1761, Aug. 8.
H3/1.
Cyfres | Series H4 vtls004693539: Condover household account books,Dyddiad | Date: 1762-1763. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
An account book, 1762-1763, of Thomas Kilvert [house steward] at Condover Hall (an Elizabethanmansion 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 andthe house in Shrewsbury. Includes a loose letter, 30 May 1763, from Clive concerning the engagementof a ‘famous Cook’ and a man who understands fireworks to celebrate Plassey Day (23 June 1757).
Cyfres | Series H5 vtls004693556: Westcomb household account books,Dyddiad | Date: 1769. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
An account book giving details of the first half year’s payments for 1769 in respect of the household atWestcomb, a villa near Blackheath, London, belonging to the Duke of Bolton, which Lady Clive hadrented when Clive was serving his last period in India, 1765-1767. It is arranged into separate sectionsfor housekeeping, servants, contingent expenses, children’s expenses, travelling expenses, stableexpenses, pocket expenses, liquors, wearing apparel, farming and gardening, and taxes at Westcomband in London. There are enclosures, 1767-1769, containing details of servants' pay and board wages,liveries to servants and lists of servants.
Cyfres | Series H6 vtls004693618: General household and travel account books,Dyddiad | Date: 1771-1773. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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.
H6/1 vtls004693619 File - General household and travelaccount books,
1771, April 26—1773, Aug. 7.
H6/1.
Cyfres | Series H7 vtls004693624: Journals of house-stewards' books,Dyddiad | Date: 1767-1768. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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, sundryaccounts and accounts of sundry persons and of Clive's journey to France in 1768.
H8/1 vtls004694153 File - Ledgers of house-stewards' books, 1767, July 31—1768, Dec. 31.
H8/1.
Cyfres | Series H9 vtls004694154: Ledgers of Edward Crisp's cash account with LordClive,Dyddiad | Date: 1767-1774. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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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 vouchernumber. The properties referred to include Claremont, Walcot, Oakly Park, Styche and the BerkeleySquare house. The period of the ledgers represents Clive's final years in England but amongst thedisbursements 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 consecutivelynumbered and entitled as above, Edward Crisp being Clive's accountant.
H9/1 vtls004694156 File - Ledger of Edward Crisp's cashaccount with Lord Clive,
1767, July 15—1768, June.
H9/1.
H9/2 vtls004694293 File - Ledger of Edward Crisp's cashaccount with Lord Clive,
1768, July 1—1768, Dec. 3.
H9/2.
H9/3 vtls004694294 File - Ledger of Edward Crisp's cashaccount with Lord Clive,
1769, Jan. 1—1769, June 30.
H9/3.
H9/4 vtls004694296 File - Ledger of Edward Crisp's cashaccount with Lord Clive,
1769, July 1—1770, June 30.
H9/4.
H9/5 vtls004694298 File - Ledger of Edward Crisp's cashaccount with Lord Clive,
1770, July 1—1771, June 30.
H9/5.
H9/6 vtls004694386 File - Ledger of Edward Crisp's cashaccount with Lord Clive,
1771, July 1—1772, June 30.
H9/6.
H9/7 vtls004694391 File - Ledger of Edward Crisp's cashaccount with Lord Clive,
1772, July 1—1773, June 30.
H9/7.
H9/8 vtls004694393 File - Ledger of Edward Crisp's cashaccount with Lord Clive,
1773, July 1—1774, June 30.
H9/8.
H9/9 vtls004694394 File - Ledger of Edward Crisp's cashaccount with Lord Clive,
1774, July 1—Nov. 22.
H9/9.
Cyfres | Series H10 vtls004694749: Cellar books,Dyddiad | Date: 1773-1775. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A cellar book containing weekly accounts of the different types and amounts of wines and spiritsconsumed and remaining in stock between Nov. 1773 and May 1775. Although various rooms arementioned the house itself is not identified but the volume probably relates to Clive's Berkeley Square
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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.
Disgrifiad ffisegol | Physical description: 1 vol (48cm. x 29cm.).
Cyfres | Series H11 vtls004694907: Household memoranda of Clive’s French tour,Dyddiad | Date: 1768. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A volume of household and other memoranda relating to Clive’s tour of France which he undertookbetween 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 (namesand dates of places visited with distances given in ‘posts’ and miles).
For catalogues and inventories taken by Clive’s executors after his death see T.
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H12/1 vtls004694920 File - Household inventory, 1760. H12/1.H12/2 vtls004694921 File - Catalogue of books at Berkeley
Square,1765, May 22. H12/2.
H12/3 vtls004695091 File - Inventory of Berkeley Square andother properties,
[c. 1770]. H12/3.
H12/4 vtls004695097 File - Inventory of Berkeley Square andother properties,
[c. 1770]. H12/4.
Cyfres | Series H13 vtls004695108: Miscellaneous papers,Dyddiad | Date: 1755-[c. 1770]. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Miscellaneous papers comprising a notice of renewal, 10 Feb. 1755, of the insurance policy on Clive'shouse in Queen Square, [Ormond Street, London], medical recipes, [c. 1760], (some in Latin) anda testimonial, [c. 1770], in respect of W[illia]m Disney who was Clive's under-butler for eighteenmonths.
Cyfres | Series P2 vtls004695152: Parliamentary enquiry papers,Crëwr | Creator:
Dyddiad | Date: 1772-1773. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Original documents and near-contemporary copies of Clive’s papers assembled and prepared in1772-1773 for his defence before the select committee. They include his speech to Parliament, minutesof 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).
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Trefniant | Arrangement:
Clive’s speech excepted, the papers take the form of subject files. Within each file the papers are innumerical order (based on an existing arrangement) but not necessarily in chronological order.
Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material:
Copies of East India Company accounts probably also compiled as evidence for the parliamentaryenquiry are in SD.
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P2/1 vtls004695158 File - Salt, 1772-1773. P2/1.P2/2 vtls004695323 File - Receiving of presents, 1772-1773. P2/2.P2/3 vtls004695326 File - Charges by and against Messrs
Cyfres | Series P3 vtls004697393: Miscellaneous political papers,Dyddiad | Date: 1764-1769. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Miscellaneous papers relating to the passing of a local turnpike Act, 1764, the ‘weight’ of estateroyalties for electoral purposes, [c. 1768], and the Pontefract election of 1768, which was fought byHenry Strachey, Clive’s secretary, who eventually won on appeal.
P3/1 vtls004909441 File - Miscellaneous political papers, 1764—1769. P3/1.A vtls004909442 Otherlevel - Attorneys’ papers, 1764-1768. A.
Cyfres | Series A1 vtls004909443: Proceedings,Dyddiad | Date: 1764-1768. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Original and copy proceedings, 1764-1768, of the attorneys’ meetings held for the most part duringClive’s third and final stay in India but also covering a short period following his return to England in1767. The range of business transacted relates inter alia to estate matters (building work, mortgages,
GB 0210 ROBCLI Robert Clive Papers,
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 63
purchase and sale and household insurance), the payment of bills, annuities, the transfer of Clive’sEast India stock (giving the holders’ names), his interest in diamonds including that bought of MrPybus, 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.
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 64
A2/1 vtls004925329 File - Letter books, 1764, June 8—1767, July 9.
A2.
A2/2 vtls004925334 File - Letter books, 1768, Jan. 26—July 5.
A2/2.
Cyfres | Series A3 vtls004928333: Miscellaneous papers,Dyddiad | Date: [c. 1765]-1767. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Miscellaneous papers, [c. 1765]-1767, relating to the attorneys’ dealings with regard to Clive’sassignations (bills) on the Dutch East India Company, his East India stock and repairs at Styche Hall.
T vtls004939027 Otherlevel - Executors' papers, 1774-1796. T.
Cyfres | Series T1 vtls004939033: Rough proceedings/minutes,Dyddiad | Date: 1774-1796. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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’swill, the payment of legacies, annuities, and tradesmen’s bills, the maintenance and education of hischildren, 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’sjagir (5 May 1784), and the payment of his attorneys’ bills in Bengal with the closure of his concernsthere (11 December 1785). The proceedings give the names of the executors together with those ofother persons whose attendance was required at the meetings including on occasions Lady Clive andEdward, Lord Clive.
Cyfres | Series T3 vtls004942006: Cash books,Dyddiad | Date: 1774-1790. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
A cash ledger containing accounts relating inter alia to funeral charges, servants’ mourning, wagesand allowances (names and positions given), tradesmen’s bills (names and trades given), expenses ofexecuting Clive’s will, household insurance and taxes in London.
Cyfres | Series T4 vtls004955036: Journals,Dyddiad | Date: 1775-1795. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
Journals of Clive’s executors, 1775-1795, recording details of monies received and due to namedindividuals, value of investments and jewellery, expenditure on estate repairs and improvements,payments to annuitants, and members of the family, estate income, rent arrears, etc.
Cyfres | Series R3 vtls004957658: Personal correspondence,Dyddiad | Date: 1760-1768. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation)
Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content:
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.
R5/1 vtls004957710 File - Journal of Edward Crisp, 1739-1755. R5/1.R5/2 vtls004957713 File - Daybook of London firm of
chinaware dealers,1758-1763. R5/2.
R5/3 vtls004957717 File - West Florida dispute, [c. 1766]. R5/3.R5/4 vtls004957729 File - MS appendix of a work on Batta, [?1770s]. R5/4.R5/5 vtls004957732 File - A Refutation of Considerations on