East India House. Its history and associations

Notes:

A companion volume is Sir William Foster, 'John Company', 1926. Deals with certain topics relating to the domestic history of the Company - 'it may be that ... [it] illustrate the working of a typical trading body in the City of London during two and a half centuries, and that is a subject on which comparatively little is at present known'. Some chapters had already been published as scholarly articles. Fifteen chapters cover premises, staff, specific departments, account keeping, external events such as the Great Fire, viz: 'Craven House'; 'Purchase of Craven House'; 'Staff in the seventeenth century'; 'The Weavers' Riots'; 'Some petty cash books'; 'The rebuilding in 1726-29'; 'Later history of the building'; 'Mr Auditor Hoole'; 'Mr Lamb of the Accountant's Office'; 'The Examiner's Department'; 'The staff in the nineteenth century'; etc