Board's Collections Vol 690

Content

This volume consists of two items which are copies of correspondence, minutes, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. [Mumbai]. The items are:

IOR/F/4/690/18908 ‘Vol: 1 – Relative to the disgraceful treatment experienced by Lieut Dominicetti of the Marine from the Dola of Mocha and others, and to the plunder of the Company’s Factory An East India Company trading post. at that place in 1817 – also Proceedings of the Expedition which was in consequence dispatched against the Town of Mocha.’

IOR/F/4/690/18909 ‘Vol: 2 – Relative to the disgraceful treatment experienced by Lieut Dominicetti of the Marine from the Dola of Mocha and others, and to the plunder of the Company’s Factory An East India Company trading post. at that place in 1817 – also Proceedings of the Expedition which was in consequence dispatched against the Town of Mocha.’

Extent and format

1 volume (369 folios)

It is grouped into

‘Vol: 1 - Relative to the disgraceful treatment experienced by Lieut Dominicetti of the Marine from the Dola of Mocha and others, and to the plunder of the Company’s Factory at that place in 1817 – also Proceedings of the Expedition which was in consequence dispatched against the Town of Mocha.’

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‘Vol: 2 - Relative to the disgraceful treatment experienced by Lieut Dominicetti of the Marine from the Dola of Mocha and others, and to the plunder of the Company’s Factory at that place in 1817 – also Proceedings of the Expedition which was in consequence dispatched against the Town of Mocha.’

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Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 371; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/F/4/690

History of this record

Date(s)

2 Aug 1817-9 Apr 1821 (CE, Gregorian)

Places

Mocha

People & organisations

Government of BombayGovernor of MochaImam of Yemen

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