| Content Description | Presents compliments to the duke and encloses an account of the 'Partition Treaties' in which he has tried to do justice to King William [for another volume for his 'Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland from the dissolution of the last Parliament of Charles II until the Sea Battle of La Hogue' published 1771]; regrets that he did not have the 'materials' to allow him to do justice to Lord Portland; reports that in with King William's papers is a bundle of 30 letters from Lord Portland to the King about the peace of Ryswick conducted by the Lord.
Date estimated from the period covered by this collection of the 3rd Duke's correspondence. |