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8	Cancelled cheque of Warren Hastings
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11	Photographs of Indian portraits
12	East India Company indenture to William Cox
13	Pocket register of a Ceylon servant
14	Coal in Upper Assam
15	Abstract of the story of Khamba and Thoibi
16	Notes on Samuel Tolfrey
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Title	East India Company indenture to William Cox
Reference	RCMS 63/12 (former reference: MSS 22)
Creator	East India Company
Covering Dates	14 Mar. 1812
Extent and Medium	1 page; paper; Typewritten

Content and context

The East India Company was incorporated by a royal charter on 31 December 1600, and enjoyed a monopoly on trade with the East Indies.

A counterpart licence from the East India Company to William Cox, mariner, to trade in the Eastern Seas, notwithstanding the monopoly of the Company. The licence is indented with the impression of the Company's seal.

Purchased 1961. The identure was acquired at the same time as RCMS 240/27, Document of the Mosquito Nation. The Leonard P. Cox mentioned in this document may be related to William Cox.

Further information

Donald H. Simpson, ed., 'The manuscript catalogue of the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (London, 1975), p. 62. Indexed

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East India Company

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