Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 1140
Title	Translation of a letter from Monsieur van der Dussen, Hague, Netherlands; 30 Aug. 1712
Date	30 August 1712
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Says that the information in the recipient's letter regarding the 'discovery' of the Italian Count d'Assurini is false and provides the correct details of the affair; relates the details of his meeting with Bornwall at Utrecht; says that Bornwall's companion Chevalier d'Assurini [son of the Count] had orders from the French regarding the Pretender's supposed voyage to England to gain the throne; reports d'Assurini assertion that his father had given weapons to the Lord High Treasurer [Earl of Oxford] and Lord Bolingbroke to secure their passage to the King of France; says that he suspected Bornwall's honesty and refused to meet with him again.
Term	diplomacy, with Netherlands
	royalty, succession
	Scottish affairs, Jacobites

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA29963	Assurini; - d' (fl 1712); Count d'Assurini; Italian; attempted to implicate Oxford and Bolingbroke in Jacobite plot	fl 1712
NA18922	James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766); Prince of Wales; 'the Old Pretender'; son of James II; also known as Chevalier de St George	1688-1766
NA432	Louis XIV (1638-1715); King of France; (the Sun King)	1638-1715
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724
NA19002	St John; Henry (1678-1751); 1st Viscount Bolingbroke; statesman	1678-1751
NA29964	Bornwall; - (fl 1712); -; attempted to implicate Oxford and Bolingbroke in Jacobite plot	fl 1712
NA29965	Dussen; - van der (fl 1712); Monsieur; diplomat?; of the Hague	fl 1712