Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 1109
Title	Encoded letter from William Van Heels [Huls], Hague, Netherlands, to [Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford]; 12/23 Jun. 1711
Date	23 June 1711
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Discusses the state of the [peace] negotiations with France and the Netherlands; apologises for not writing previously due to gout and a 'want of subject'; reports that the last letter received as delivered by Lord Orkney, who came over with the mail; refers to the 'justice' done to Oxford and to his 'great Ancestors'; discusses various interviews and refers to the participants and places by code numbers.
Term	diplomacy, with France
	honours and decorations, elevation to peerage
	medical conditions, gout
	diplomacy, with Netherlands
	intelligence, cypher
	wars, War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA29616	Hamilton; George (c.1666-1737); 1st Earl of Orkney; 5th son of Duke of Hamilton; cr. 1696	c.1666-1737
NA29941	Huls; Carel Willem van (fl 1663-1714); Dutch; diplomatic channel between 1st Earl of Oxford and Pensionary Heinsius	fl 1663-1714
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724