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Warren Hastings | Payment order in favour of Lieutenant Elliot Roberts, 21 November 1775

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Warren Hastings


Document signed ("Warren Hastings"), and others,


for a payment order in favour of Lieutenant Elliot Roberts, for the sum of fifty five pounds sterling, to the Court of Directors for Affairs of the Honorable United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies, London, 1 page, folio, Fort William, 21 November 1775


Document issued during Hastings' tenure as the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first de facto Governor-General of Bengal from 1772–1785.

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