HEICS The records of the Honourable East India Company Service (HEICS) are now housed at the British Library at Euston in London. The Company was established in the year 1600 as a joint-stock association of English merchants who received, by a series of charters, exclusive rights to trade in the 'Indies'. The 'Indies' were defined as the lands lying between the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellen. Over the next two and a half centuries the Company grew to become the largest trading company the World has ever seen. The Records cover the government of India amounting to over 10 miles of shelves, plus 70,000 volumes of official publications and 105,000 manuscripts and maps. There is also much material concerned with the everyday running of the company plus many hundreds of ship's logs which list day-to-day events on the East Indiamen that dominated the trade between Britain and India and China for over two centures. (Part of the above has been extracted from a leaflet on the 'India Office Records', published by the British Library, 2002.) It appears at present that only three or four Rawes individuals were involved with the HEICS, all related to each other. The gathering of the material can only be done over a period of time. This part of the website will therefore grow at a slow pace.
List of Classes of Records.	2002	General	h1
Index of Court Minutes.	1811-	Bromley Line	h2
Catalogue of HEICS Ships and Biographical Index of Ships Officers.	1800-	Various Lines	h3
Original Registers and Indexes to Records Series.	c1700-	Bromley Line	h4
Registers of the Madras, Bengal & Culcutta Establishments.	1698-	Wm Wilson Line	h5
Surgeons Certificates.	1839	Wm Wilson Line	h6
Military Service Records.	1866	Wm Wilson Line	h7
Ships Log of the Warren Hastings (No.5).	1820	Bromley Line	h8