A list of questions concerning Mr Johnstone's governance of the province of Burdwan

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The identity of the person to whom the questions were posed is not stated, but he was made supravisor of Burdwan Province after Johnstone's departure.

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The Clive Collection, comprising the papers of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774), Governor of Bengal 1757-1760 and 1765-1767; Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis (1754-1839), Governor of Madras 1798-1804 and other family members."Mss Eur G37

Papers relating to matters in India, particularly the work of the East India Company, military matters and Clive's jagir.Mss Eur G37/1

Letters, copyletters, minutes and drafts relating to Company business in India, trade and military matters, also papers relating to Sir Robert Fletcher.Mss Eur G37/2

Outgoing correspondence, mostly business but including some social and family letters.Mss Eur G37/3

Incoming and outgoing correspondence and drafts of speeches made by Clive in his own defence.Mss Eur G37/4

Letters, petitions, draft treaties, commissions and covenants involving Clive or relating to his work.Mss Eur G37/5

Council minutes, letters and extracts from letters, declarations, minutes, receipts, biographical materials and various lists.Mss Eur G37/6

Letters, many from Clive's family, lists, accounts and codes.Mss Eur G37/7

Documents relating to military affairs in India, Clive's jagir and Clive's administration.Mss Eur G37/8

Financial papers and items relating to India, particularly uprisings.Mss Eur G37/9

Incoming letters on military business, accounts, official letters and Company minutes and records of domestic financial affairs under Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis.Mss Eur G37/10

Minutes and copies of minutes, including evidence presented to the Committee on East India Company affairs in 1772-1773.Mss Eur G37/11

Official records and copies thereof, including extracts from consultations, legal opinions, evidence statements and military intelligence. Other documents include a defence of Clive and records of investments in diamonds.Mss Eur G37/12

Various notes, narratives, translations, formal documents and financial pap ... Mss Eur G37/13

Documents relating to the work of committees, letters, petitions to Clive and documents issued in his name.Mss Eur G37/14

Letters and draft letters written and received by Clive to and from various ... Mss Eur G37/15

Documents concerning various subjects, including military matters, the fluctuation of India Stock, defences of Clive, drafts of chapters of Sir John Malcolm's biography of Clive, diamond purchases and domestic matters.Mss Eur G37/16

Documents relating to various subjects including Indian administration, finance, military matters, legal opinion, correspondence and Sir John Malcolm's biography of Clive.Mss Eur G37/17

Documents relating to the Society for Trade.Mss Eur G37/17/1

A list of questions concerning Mr Johnstone's governance of the province of BurdwanMss Eur G37/17/2

A letter to John Walsh, Esq., possibly from Johnstone, enclosing a list of Johnstone's proposals to the Court of Directors.Mss Eur G37/17/3

A account of the consignments made by the Cour des Aydes (Cour des Aides).Mss Eur G37/17/4

A summary of news brought by a ship belonging to the Danish Company which arrived at Tranquebar having come from Mauritius in 29 days.Mss Eur G37/17/5

Regulations for armed forces.Mss Eur G37/17/6

Record of a voyage undertaken from England to Madras in 1758Mss Eur G37/17/7

Record of temperature observations taken in June and July 1764.Mss Eur G37/17/8

Lists of questions.Mss Eur G37/17/9

Account of the pay due to sepoys and servants on the death of Mir Jafar.Mss Eur G37/17/10

Copies of a Kist-bandi (settlement of land revenues) made under the seal of Mir Jafar.Mss Eur G37/17/11

Address sent to Mir Jafar congratulating him upon attaining the Suba-ship of Bengal and informing him of military appointments made by the sender in the Company's army in Mir Jafar's territory.Mss Eur G37/17/12

Agreements for the repayment of loans.Mss Eur G37/17/13

Record of the statements made under examination by Farzula and Akul Mahmud.Mss Eur G37/17/14

Depositions.Mss Eur G37/17/15

Charges and opinion about Mohammed Reza Khan.Mss Eur G37/17/16

Articles of Agreement made between the President and Council of Fort William and the Dutch at Chinsura.Mss Eur G37/17/17

Translations of financial documents made by the Dutch East India Company.Mss Eur G37/17/18

Articles presented to the Nabob by the Dutch East India Company.Mss Eur G37/17/19

"Separate Articles requested by the Dutch".Mss Eur G37/17/20

"A fac-simile and translation of a Chinese Map of the Seat of War in Western TartaryMss Eur G37/17/21

Maps and Surveys.Mss Eur G37/17/22

"Case respecting the Certificates stating the difference between Certificates and Bills of Exchange".Mss Eur G37/17/23

Military certificates and orders.Mss Eur G37/17/24

Abstract of the Siege of Madras between 14 December 1758 and 17 February 1759.Mss Eur G37/17/25

Diagram of an Order of Battle.Mss Eur G37/17/26

Text of a statement relating to the allocation of the money granted to the Select Committee by Mir Jafar.Mss Eur G37/17/27

Opinion given by William de Grey, Attorney General, upon the question of the legality of the Company and British subjects lending and borrowing money to and from foreign companies or foreign subjects.Mss Eur G37/17/28

Facts concerning the Society of Trade and financial matters, attributed to "Wilkes".Mss Eur G37/17/29

Draft paper correcting errors found in the accounts of the Arcot expedition.Mss Eur G37/17/30

Cases and Opinions.Mss Eur G37/17/31

Legal opinions and observations.Mss Eur G37/17/32

Defence offered by Captain How.Mss Eur G37/17/33

A report of the argument used by the Recorder in his judgement in the case of Oakes v. Hughes, with a letter to Mr Grant from Walter Grant, his informant.Mss Eur G37/17/34

Declaration of a £2000 Trust between William Throgmorton Bromley Esq. of Bagington in Warwickshire and Edward Clive, Richard Clive, William Belcher and William Smith King.Mss Eur G37/17/35

Description of the quarters or cantonments proposed for the Regiment of India while in England.Mss Eur G37/17/36

A report on copper ore, its incidence, mining practice and reports of some experiments using it.Mss Eur G37/17/37

Memorials and certificates.Mss Eur G37/17/38

Account made by the Doctor of the symptoms and treatment of Captain N. Kindersley following his wounding in the lung as a result of a duel.Mss Eur G37/17/39

Blank indenture forms.Mss Eur G37/17/40

Silk accounts.Mss Eur G37/17/41

Address to Clive signed by J.D. Ramier, subject of the King of Sardinia.Mss Eur G37/17/42

Two newspapers translated from Bengali into English.Mss Eur G37/17/43

Translation of a paper delivered at the Durbar by "Mharage Deraigenaraine" concerning financial matters.Mss Eur G37/17/44

Notes upon written Arabic, its alphabet and the modes of writing certain words.Mss Eur G37/17/45

Petition to Clive signed by Thomas Hill, William Congreve and Roger Kynaston requesting that Mr John Walter Harwood may be recommended to Colonel Forde for speedy preferment in the Army in India.Mss Eur G37/17/46

Letter to Clive from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge recommending their missionaries at Madras to his favour and protection.Mss Eur G37/17/47

Translation of a dustuck under the seal of Chandur-mandel, deputy to Nelumbur Sing, Mr Gray's gomestah at Banglapoor.Mss Eur G37/17/48

Letters.Mss Eur G37/17/49

Remarks made by Dr Walker commenting upon a biography of Clive and recommending changes.Mss Eur G37/17/50

Outlines for the reform of the House of Commons' system for hearing petitions, with some reported comments from Rigby (Probably Richard Rigby (1722-88), Lord North (Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford) and Lord Clare.Mss Eur G37/17/51

Announcement of a Company resolution to diminish the number of slaves belonging to the Company in St Helena and a list of the numbers of slaves on the island in 1800 and 1804.Mss Eur G37/17/52

Minutes written by various Company servants.Mss Eur G37/17/53

Amended draft of Clive's defence of himself against the charge that he had instituted frauds in the coinage.Mss Eur G37/17/54

Description and lists of plants and seeds.Mss Eur G37/17/55

Accounts of household items and items sent to other people.Mss Eur G37/17/56

"A Detail of the Several Guards, Military and Artillery, with the Number of artillery in the Siege of Fort George 16 February 1759".Mss Eur G37/17/57

Lists of letters.Mss Eur G37/17/58

Incoming letters and copies.Mss Eur G37/17/59

Documents concerning elections.Mss Eur G37/17/60

A list of the tradesmen in Shrewsbury eligible to vote.Mss Eur G37/17/61

"To the Directors of a Certain Company on the Conversion of the General", a poem.Mss Eur G37/17/62

Questions to be posed upon an objectionable passage in a book published by Colonel Dow.Mss Eur G37/17/63

Miscellaneous documents, mostly military in tone.Mss Eur G37/17/64

Two notices requesting Clive's presence at the Royal Society for the election of the Council and Officers of the Society.Mss Eur G37/17/65

A proposal to print a new and more useful Oriental Dictionary.Mss Eur G37/17/66

Lists, on various subjects, and petitions.Mss Eur G37/18

Personal financial papers and accounts of purchases.Mss Eur G37/19

Incoming correspondence to 1752.Mss Eur G37/20

Incoming letters, mostly between 1753 and 1756.Mss Eur G37/21

Incoming letters dated between January and June 1757.Mss Eur G37/22

Incoming letters and copies of personal and official letters dated in the second half of 1757.Mss Eur G37/23

Incoming letters and copies of personal and official letters dated in the first half of 1758.Mss Eur G37/24

Incoming letters and copies of personal and official letters dated in the second half of 1758.Mss Eur G37/25

Incoming letters and copies of personal and official letters dated in the first half of 1759,Mss Eur G37/26

Incoming letters and copies and extracts of personal and official letters dated between July and December 1759.Mss Eur G37/27

Incoming letters dated during 1760.Mss Eur G37/28

Incoming letters, and copies of borth personal and official letters dated in 1761 and 1762.Mss Eur G37/29

Incoming letters, copies and extracts of letters dated between February and September 1763, also letters in Persian and a guide to learning Hindi.Mss Eur G37/30

Incoming letters and copies and extracts of personal and official letters mostly dated between October and December 1763.Mss Eur G37/31

Incoming letters and copies and extracts from personal and official letters mostly dated in 1764Mss Eur G37/32

Incoming letters dated between January and March 1765Mss Eur G37/33

Incoming letters and copies and extracts from personal and official letters mostly dated between April and June 1765.Mss Eur G37/34

Incoming letters, and copies and extracts from personal and official letters dated between July and September 1765.Mss Eur G37/35

Incoming letters, extracts, copies and drafts dated in October and November 1765.Mss Eur G37/36

Incoming correspondence December 1765 and January 1766Mss Eur G37/37

Incoming letters dated in January and February 1766Mss Eur G37/38

Incoming letters dated in March and April 1766Mss Eur G37/39

Incoming letters and extracts and copies of personal and official letters dated in May and June 1766.Mss Eur G37/40

Incoming letters and extracts and copies of personal and official letters dated in July and August 1766.Mss Eur G37/41

Incoming letters, translations, copies and extracts of incoming and outgoing correspondence, both private and official.Mss Eur G37/42

Incoming letters and copies and extracts of official letters dated in November and December 1766Mss Eur G37/43

Incoming letters and copies and extracts of personal and official letters.Mss Eur G37/44

Incoming letters and petitions dated between April and July 1767.Mss Eur G37/45

Incoming letters and extracts and copies thereof dated in August 1767.Mss Eur G37/46

Incoming letters, extracts and copies dated in September 1767.Mss Eur G37/47

Incoming letters, duplicates, copies and an address dated in October 1767.Mss Eur G37/48

Incoming letters, and copies, abstracts and extracts of official letters where the original is dated in November 1767.Mss Eur G37/49

Incoming letters and copies dated in December 1767.Mss Eur G37/50

Incoming letters dated in January and February 1768Mss Eur G37/51

Incoming letters and copies dated in March and April 1768.Mss Eur G37/52

Incoming letters and copies dated between May and September 1768.Mss Eur G37/53

Incoming letters, extracts and copies dated in September and October 1768.Mss Eur G37/54

Incoming letters, copies and extracts dated in November and December 1768.Mss Eur G37/55

Incoming letters and copies dated between January and March 1769.Mss Eur G37/56

Incoming letters, copies, drafts and extracts deated between April and July 1769.Mss Eur G37/57

Incoming letters dated between August and December 1769Mss Eur G37/58

Incoming letters, extracts and copies dated between January and June 1770.Mss Eur G37/59

Incoming letters, duplicates, extracts and copies dated between July and December 1770.Mss Eur G37/60

Incoming letters dated between January and June 1771Mss Eur G37/61

Incoming letters dated between July and December 1771Mss Eur G37/62

Incoming correspondence dated between January and April 1772.Mss Eur G37/63

Incoming letters dated in May and June 1772Mss Eur G37/64

Incoming letters dated between July and December 1772.Mss Eur G37/65

Incoming letters and copies dated between Jannuary and May 1773Mss Eur G37/66

Incoming correspondence dated in the second half of 1773.Mss Eur G37/67

Incoming letters dated between 1774 and 1783Mss Eur G37/68

Incoming letters, copies and drafts dated between 1784 and 1794.Mss Eur G37/69

Incoming correspondence dated between 1796-1800Mss Eur G37/70

Incoming lettes and copies dated in the 19th century, also accounts, political papers and papers relating to the administration of the Shropshire Militia.Mss Eur G37/71

Undated incoming correspendence which can be dated with varying degrees of exactness.Mss Eur G37/72

Incoming correspondence, some dated, others to varying degrees datable or undateable.Mss Eur G37/73

Official petitions, military returns of men and stores and official financial papers.Mss Eur G37/74

Personal and official financial papers and associated materials.Mss Eur G37/75

Personal and official financial papers.Mss Eur G37/76

Financial papers, mostly relating to Clive's personal finances, but including some official records.Mss Eur G37/77

Personal and official fiancial papers.Mss Eur G37/78

Personal and official financial documents.Mss Eur G37/79

Personal and official financial papers.Mss Eur G37/80

Personal and official fiancial papers and correspondence relating thereto.Mss Eur G37/81

Personal and official fiancial papers and correspondence relating thereto.Mss Eur G37/82

Personal and official financial papers and correspondence relating thereto.Mss Eur G37/83

Personal and official fiancial papers and correspondence relating thereto.Mss Eur G37/84

Personal and official fiancial papers and correspondence relating thereto.Mss Eur G37/85/1

Personal Financial Papers relating to the estate of Robert, 1st Baron Clive, and to other members of the family.Mss Eur G37/85/2

Military Returns or personnel and hardware.Mss Eur G37/86

Military Returns of personnel and stores.Mss Eur G37/87

Military returns of men and stores.Mss Eur G37/88

Military returns of men and stores.Mss Eur G37/89

Military returns, lists and some related letters.Mss Eur G37/90

Military Returns of men and stores.Mss Eur G37/91

Select Committee Minutes and official letters and copyletters.Mss Eur G37/92

Official letters and copy letters, minutes of the Select Committee and other Company papers.Mss Eur G37/93

Petitions, letters requesting aid, official company papers and private receipts.Mss Eur G37/94

Petitions and letters requesting aidMss Eur G37/95

Military Returns, Company documents and receipts.Mss Eur G37/96