Abstract: Ledger of the East India Company ship the
Severn[Captain Joseph Collier/Richard Dorrell]. The ledger appears to be for the ship's first voyage, which was from England to Batavia [Jakarta] and back, since all of the entries cover the period 1742-1744, with the exception of one entry dated January 1757, which notes a payment into the Company's Treasury.The ledger contains the accounts of pay and other financial records of each of the ship's crew members, including details of fees paid to Greenwich hospital (this was a hospital in the older sense of the word, serving as a home for retired sailors).Also included in the ledger is a piece of blotting paper (folio 58).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 71; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: Ledger of the
Montagu(Captain John Caulier), to accompany her voyage to Surrat [Surat], 1699-1702. The ship called at Gombroon [Bandar Abbas] in November 1700.The ledger contains the accounts of pay and other financial records of each of the ship's crewmembers.There is a list of the ship's crew, giving 'quality' [rank or occupation], and account of the two months' imprest paid [advance of wages] on folios 10-11.There are lists of personal goods on folio 53 (dated 15 June 1700), and folios 63-64 (including the effects of Henry Cook, died 30 November 1699).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 74; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 75-94, which have not been digitised.
Abstract: Ledger of the
Arabia Factor(Captain Abraham Jackson), to accompany her voyage to Mocha, 1701-03.The ledger contains the accounts of pay and other financial records of each of the ship's crewmembers.There is a list of the ship's crew, giving quality [rank] and wages on folio 71.The volume also contains miscellaneous (inserted) accounting papers relating to certain other East India Company ships, circa 1711-15, on folios 4-64, and folios 120-121. These papers include: passenger property lists (folios 4-5); lists of wages; notes and calculations; lists of ships; accounting and wages records of the ships
Tankervile[
Tankerville],
Aurengzeb,
Hallifax[
Halifax],
Kathrine[
Katherine],
Abington,
Mary,
Howland,
Montague,
Toddington,
Success,
Rochester,and
Sarum; certificates of the examination of goods (folios 49-63, passim); wages records of the
Arabia Merchantand
London; manifest of goods to be laden aboard the
Grantham; and wages records of the
St George(folios 120-121).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 93; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 94-133, which have not been digitised.
Abstract: Ledger of the
Macclesfield(spelled 'Mackelsfield' in the volume's title) [Captain Thomas Roberts/John Hurle], to accompany her voyage from England to Bombay and back, 1701-02. The ship called at Muscat and Mocha in 1702.The ledger contains the accounts of pay and other financial records of each of the ship's crewmembers.There is a list of the ship's crew on folios 10-11.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 57; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
Abstract: Ledger of the
Macclesfield(spelled 'Macclesfeild' in the volume's title) [Captain Thomas Roberts/John Hurle], to accompany her voyage from England to Bombay and back, 1701-02. The ship called at Muscat and Mocha in 1702.The ledger contains the accounts of pay and other financial records of each of the ship's crewmembers.There is a list of the ship's crew, detailing wages per month and wages due, attached to folio 4, and a further list of the ship's crew, giving quality [rank] on folio 10.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 45; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 46-58, which have not been digitised.
Abstract: Ledger of the
Rooke(Captain George Simmons), to accompany her voyage to Surratt [Surat] and China, 1699-1702. The ship called at Gombroon [Bandar Abbas] in December 1701.The ledger contains the accounts of pay and other financial records of each of the ship's crewmembers.The ledger includes a list of the ship's crew, giving 'quality' [rank or occupation], and account of the two months' imprest paid [advance of wages], dated London, 21 July 1699 (folio 12r); a list of the ship's crew, giving quality, and account of river pay paid [a sum paid to the crews of ships that were ready to sail], dated Gravesend, August 1699 (folio 12v); a list of men entered on board the
Rookesince her arrival in the East Indies (folio 13r); and a list of all the men that are dead, run, and discharged from the
Rooke(folios 13-14).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 67; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. All the documents are from the Government of Bombay.The item briefly traces the development of the establishments in the Arabian Gulf, giving the starting points of the Residencies in Bussora [Basra], the Gulph of Persia [Arabian Gulf], and Bushire [Būshehr]. The discussion covers the merging of the Muscat Residency with Bushire, and the proposed position of Political Agent in the Gulph of Persia, to be filled by William Bruce, with Robert Taylor as the Assistant to the Agent, reflecting the change in East India Company roles in the Gulf from commercial to political. A dragoman will remain at Bagdad [Baghdad], a commanding officer at Kishm [Qeshm], and Native Agents elsewhere. The item also discusses the salaries to be paid to all the Agents and Residents, and the state of British trade with the Ottoman Empire including tariffs and duties paid.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Political No. 855, Draft 106, P.C. 200, Season 24/5, Examiner’s Office March 1824’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 74, and terminates at f 97, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the file also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Governments of Bombay and Bengal. The principal correspondent is the Government of Bombay.The main event discussed is the consolidation of the Political Residency at Muscat and the Commercial Residency at Bushire [Būshehr] in the person of Nicholas Hankey Smith following the death of the previous Resident at Muscat, William Chichely Bunce. Stephen Babington and James Williams have been appointed as his assistants, and the assistant to the Civil Auditor and the Deputy Accountant-General have provided the accounts of Muscat 1805-09. The proposed salaries and expenses for the new appointments are mentioned.The title page of this item contains the following references: ‘Political No. 14, Draft 33, Season 1812/3, Examiner’s Office February 1811’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 96, and terminates at f 127, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: Enclosures no. 2-11 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 24 August 1844. The enclosures are dated 5 July-22 August 1844.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden, including:Reports that Sultan M Houssain Fudthel [Aḥmad bin Muḥsin bin Faḍl al-‘Abdalī, Sultan of Lahej] has ‘entirely lost the use of his limbs’ due to illnessA visit by the brother of the Abun [Abuna] of Northern Abyssinia [Head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church], and an exchange of giftsA visit by Sir Henry Hardinge, on his way to take up his position as Governor-General of IndiaA request by the Political Agent, Aden, for approval of an increase in salary for two members of his staff, as ‘their departure from Aden would be a great loss’, and a rejection of the increase by the Government of India.The correspondents are the Political Agent, the Abun, and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (19 folios)
Abstract: This item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the governments of Bombay [Mumbai] and Bengal.The item concerns the request of Assistant Surgeon James Drummond Campbell, of the Bombay Medical Establishment and attached to the service of Persian [Iranian] Crown Prince Abbass Mirza ['Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], to be permitted to draw his field pay and allowances in addition to his salary. It also contains details, cited for comparison, of three other East India Company surgeons employed outside of the territories administered by the Company: Surgeon John Cormick and Assistant Surgeon Richard Sharp, attached to the British Mission at the Court of Persia [Iran]; and Assistant Surgeon Charles Daw, attached to the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad.The correspondence is mainly between the Government of Bengal, the Government of Bombay, and the East India Company Court of Directors. The other correspondents included are: Henry Russell, Resident at Hyderabad; William Brooks, Military Auditor General, Bombay; Henry Willock, Minister at the Court of Tehran; Assistant Surgeon Sharp; and Assistant Surgeon Campbell.The title page (f 62) of the item contains the following references: ‘Political No. 12, 1819/20, Draft 100’ and ‘Examiner’s Office December 1818’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at 62, and terminates at 88, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists mostly of copies of correspondence, minutes, orders, and memoranda cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the governments of Bombay and Bengal. It concerns the application from Lieutenant Edward Hutchins Bellasis, of the Corps of Engineers in the Bombay Army, for remuneration for services performed and expenses incurred in relation to the Residency at Bussora. The main subjects are:The furlough granted to Bellasis from 1803 to 1805The departure from Bussora [Basra, also referred to as Bussorah] in March 1805 of Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora, with the residency left under the temporary charge of Bellasis and subsequently John LawThe applications by Bellasis for remuneration for the duties he performed as Acting Resident at Bussora, compensation for the losses he sustained at sea following his departure from Bussora, and for additional allowances to cover the period in 1804 when he commanded the detachment that accompanied Manesty to Persia [Iran]The calculation by John Elphinstone, Accountant General, Government of Bombay, of the salary and allowances of the Resident and Assistant Resident in Bussora from 1802-06The consideration of Bellasis’s case by the governments of Bombay and Bengal and the East India Company Court of Directors, and the delay in a verdict being reached.The title page (f 223) of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political No. 11, Season 1814/15, Draft 190’; and ‘Examiner’s Office, January 1815’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at 223, and terminates at 257, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay and from the Court of Directors. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay; the Court of Directors; Claudius James Rich, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia; John Hine, Assistant Political Agent in Turkish Arabia; John Wedderburn, Civil Auditor; Mary Rich, widow of Claudius James Rich.The item concerns a memorial from Mary Rich asking that the Court remit the financial penalty of the loss of Claudius Rich’s personal allowances from 13 April 1814-20 September 1815 while he was in Europe. This request is granted in view of Rich’s excellent service and his death from cholera in the course of his duties.The rest of the item provides background to this case including discussions of:Rich’s salary and allowancesHis unauthorised journey to Constantinople and ViennaWhether this journey warranted his dismissal from his postA decision to withhold his personal allowance from the time he left Constantinople to the time he returned.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Political No. 843, Draft 491, P.C. 209, [Season] 1823/4’ and ‘Examiner’s Office 1822’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 9, and terminates at f 53, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.