Documents used by Samuel Hill in his research, with related correspondence.

(1) pp. i-xiii, List of Contents of pp. 1-764, being documents used in the compilation of Bengal in 1756-7; pp. 765-7, List of Contents of pp. 769-1313, being documents used in the compilation of Yusuf Khan or the Rebel Commandant and The Old Sepoy Officer (in the English Historical Review). Presented to the India Office by Mr. S. C. Hill in 1916. (2) pp. 1-143, Copies of Vernet Correspondence in the State Archives at the Hague 3rd June 1756 to 11th Nov. 1759. Between the Dutch Officials in Bengal and dealing with the relations between the European Settlements and the native Government from the accession of Siraj-ud-daula to the defeat of Col. Roussell by Col. Forde (in Dutch). (3) pp. 147-369, Copies of Documents from the Bengal Correspondence in the State Archives at the Hague June 1756 to August 1759. Proceedings of the Dutch Council at Hugli and their correspondence with the English authorities at Calcutta and the Dutch Governor-General at Batavia (in Dutch); pp. 371-95, Translations of letters of 3rd July and 24th Nov. 1756 from the Director and Council at Hugli to the Governor-General at Batavia, On Bengal affairs as in (2) above. (4) pp. 399-573, English Translations of some of the documents in (2) and (3) above, prepared at the Hague. (5) pp. 575-99, Correspondence between S. C. Hill and the authorities of the State Archives at the Hague 19th Jan. to 17th June 1912, Documents relating to the Siege of Madura. (6) pp. 597-611, Extract from the Governor and Council of Ceylon to the Governor-General in Batavia 24th Jan. 1764; pp. 617-99, A short account of the remarkable events relating to Madura during the period 1st Jan. to 31st Dec. 1763 by Godfried Sweepe, Dutch Chief of Madura; pp. 701-54, Do, do during the period 1st Jan. to 31st Dec. 1764 (all in Dutch). (7) pp. 761-3, Dr. H. T. Colenbrander to S. C. Hill 6th Feb. 1915 on the employment of natives as soldiers by the Dutch. The real question is, ''Which European nation was the first to drill Asiatics in the European manner?'' (8) pp. 769-99, Abstract prepared by J. Van Someren Pope, Lecturer on Oriental Languages, Trinity College, Dublin, of a Tamil Ballad (copy in the India Office Library) entitled the War of Khan Sahib published in 1911; pp. 995-1011, Original abstract; pp. 1013-5, Extracts from the Ballad prepared by Rangasami Naidu. (9) pp. 801-911, Extracts from the Madras Records referring to Yusuf Khan (Collected by A. G. Cardew, Secretary to the Government of Madras), 18th June 1759 to 8th Oct. 1764. (10) 913-41, Extracts from the Madras Records 23rd Aug. 1785 to 13th Sept. 1786, Organisation of the Madras Army, Promotions, &c. (11) pp. 943-93, ''Narrative of the various illustrious Services of Meer Sahib Commandant'' (Printed in the English Historical Magazine, April 1918, p. 272), Communicated to S. C. Hill by Dr. Denison Ross, Officer in Charge of the Records of the Government of India, being No. 94 in a list of certain Ancient Documents received by the Government of India from Madras. (12) pp. 1017-51, Extracts from correspondence, &c., in the Archives of the Minister of the Colonies at Paris, including the Journal of M. Bruno and a Relation de ce qui s'est passé à la Côte du Coromandel depuis le 4 Avril 1762 jusques au mois de Janvier 1764, also summary of a letter from M. Courtin in reply to a charge that he had been bribed to surrender by Clive. (13) p. 1053, Photographs of Jenning's Map of Madura 1755 in the British Museum; pp. 1055, 1057, Photographs of Madura c. 1783 from Col. J. Welsh's Reminiscences. (14) pp. 1059-89, Information received from M. A. Martineau (formerly Governor of French India) regarding the Law family. (15) pp. 1091-1119, Letters from Mr. Rangasami Naidu, Sheristadar of the Ramnad District Court at Madura, regarding Yusuf Khan 2nd July 1912 to 15th May 1913, with, pp. 1101-5, Three photographs of Yusuf Khan's Tomb and, p. 1119, a photograph of Madura in 1913. (16) pp. 1121-1251, Transcript of M. Marchand's Précis des deux Siéges de la ville de Madure dans l'Inde 1771 (The only copy of this little book that I can find is in the Bibliothéque Nationale at Paris); pp. 1253-1315, English Translation of the foregoing by S. C. Hill.

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