[Footnote 33:  See page 79 (and note).]

[Footnote 34:  See note, p. 89.]

[Footnote 35:  Governor.]

[Footnote 36:  A document authorising the free transit of certain goods, and their exemption from custom dues, in favour of English traders.—­Wilson.]

[Footnote 37:  Orme MSS.  India XI., p. 2744, No. 71.]

[Footnote 38:  Orme MSS.  India XI., p. 2750, No. 83.]

[Footnote 39:  Still visible, I believe, in parts.  The gateway certainly exists.]

[Footnote 40:  Mr. Tooke was a Company’s servant.  He had distinguished himself in the defence of Calcutta in 1756, when he was wounded, and, being taken on board the ships, escaped the dreadful ordeal of the Black Hole.]

[Footnote 41:  Neither of these accounts agree with the Capitulation Returns.]

[Footnote 42:  British Museum.  Addl.  MS. 20,914.]

[Footnote 43:  Remarks on board His Majesty’s ship Tyger, March 15th.]

[Footnote 44:  His maternal grandfather was a cousin of Aliverdi Khan.]

[Footnote 45:  Malleson explains this by saying that De Terraneau was employed in the blocking up of the passage, but the story hardly needs contradiction.]

[Footnote 46:  This announcement seems superfluous after fighting had been going on for several days, but it simply shows the friction between the naval and military services.]

[Footnote 47:  Clive’s journal for March 16th.  Fort St. George, Sel.  Com.  Cons., 28th April, 1757.]

[Footnote 48:  Eyre Coote’s journal.]

[Footnote 49:  The passages interpolated are on the authority of a MS. in the Orme Papers, entitled “News from Bengal.”]

[Footnote 50:  Accounts of this detail differ.  One says it was stormed on the 21st, but if so the French would have been more on their guard, and would surely have strengthened the second battery in front of the Fort.]

[Footnote 51:  Lime plaster made extremely hard.]

[Footnote 52:  The Emperor at Delhi, who was supposed to be about to invade Bengal.]

[Footnote 53:  Orme MSS.  O.V. 32, p. 11.]

[Footnote 54:  Orme MSS.  O.V. 32, p. 10.]

[Footnote 55:  Sergeant Nover was pardoned in consideration of previous good conduct. Letter from Clive to Colonel Adlercron, March 29, 1757.]

[Footnote 56:  Captain Speke was seriously and his son mortally wounded in the attack on Chandernagore.]

[Footnote 57:  I cannot identify this name in the Capitulation Returns.  Possibly he was killed.]

[Footnote 58:  Surgeon Ives says the booty taken was valued at L130,000.]

[Footnote 59:  Orme MSS.  India X., p. 2390.  Letter of 30th March, 1757.]

[Footnote 60:  Firman, or Imperial Charter.]

[Footnote 61:  The Mogul, Emperor, or King of Delhi, to whom the Bengal Nawabs were nominally tributary.]

[Footnote 62:  Orme MSS.  India XI. pp. 2766-7, No. 111.]