Miscellaneous papers.

(1) ff. i-vii, List of Contents. (2) ff. 1-3, 17, Relations with the House of Commons 1646-49. (3) ff. 5-13, Private Letter Book of John Massingberd, 15th Sept. 1646 to 19th March 1647. Original. (4) ff. 14-6, 18-22, 39, 49-51, 103-8, 180-5, 195, 196, Company's Trade and Affairs 1646-52. (5) Letters on private business. ff. 24-6, Humphrey Holcomb to William Marston and John Trevisa 1651; ff. 102, 103, John Bartlett to Humphrey Edwin and Samuel Sambrooke 1667; f. 110, From William Berry 1683; ff. 111, 112, Mrs. Uvedale to her husband Edmund 1685. (6) ff. 27-9, Minutes of Court of Committees 7th Sept. 1653. (7) ff. 30-1, Services of Valentine Markham as Auditor 2nd Nov. 1653. (8) ff. 34-5, Jeremy Sambrook's Report on the East India Trade (?) 1654; this Minutes, &c. of the E.I. Co., 1650-54, p. (9) ff. 36-7, Arguments to be presented to the Lord Protector for a Charter (?) 1654. (10) ff. 40-8, Specimen of Collections for an History of Affairs of the East India Company in Europe during the seventeenth century. Made in 1788 for the Committee of Correspondence. (11) ff. 53-101, Letter Book of John Manifold, Merchant in Bruges 17th March 1666 to 1st Aug. 1667. Original. (12) ff. 118-70, Letters from Sir Josiah Child to the Company 9th Jan. 1691--5th July 1694. Original. (13) ff. 173-6, Company's reply to the Earl of Nottingham's proposals for the regulation of the East India Company 20th May 1692. (14) f. 178, Court of Managers' Order for payment of gratuities to seamen injured in fight with the enemy 7th Nov. 1705. (15) ff. 187-8, Abstract of the Rental of the Earl of Devonshire's Estate. No date. (16) f. 190, Letter from E. Williams to William Methwold regarding the revictualling of the Company's ships. Probably between 1643 and 1652. Original. (17) f. 193, Company's Proceedings for recovery of goods plundered by an Argier man-of-war from the Company's ship Morning Star (John Godolphin, Master). No date. (18) f. 199, Particulars of a Charitable Bequest in the Parish of Stepney. No date. (19) f. 201, Case of Nicholas Waite against the Company. No date. Material originating in the Accountant-General's department, now in this volume:. p.34, ''The Trade to East India begun 1600''. A report signed by Sir Jeremy Sambrooke. Undated, but believed to be about Nov 1654. Records, among other facts, the total amounts subscribed by adventurers for each of the first twelve voyages, and the percentage returns made to them for each voyage. The figures disagree with those in the summary listed immediately above, but the overall totals agree within an explainable degree. No statements have been traced recording the gross amounts of the proceeds of those voyages, and it has not been possible to check the percentage returns. It is known that, in the first voyage, and possibly also in later ones, members of ships' companies were allowed amounts of adventure for which no payments were required, which may not have been included in the two immediately preceeding statements. A summary is printed in A Calendar of Court Minutes, 1650-1654 (1913), p.360; p. 50, The estate of the new General Stock, April 1772. A small account including the total amount of debt at interest (£137,242 4s 6d); p.180, Payments to the Governor, Deputy Governor and members of Committees for attendance at Court, 1707-1708 [/L/AG/19/1]

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