Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 1154
Title	Letter from William Van Heels [Huls], Whitehall, London, to [Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford]; n.d. [c.1713]
Date	1713 (c)
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Thanks Oxford for his favours and hopes he is in good health; encloses a letter [not present] from Monsieur Dayvenvoirde [Duvenvoorde] in answer to that delivered by Mr Thomas Harley; believes that those in Holland are willing to throw aside their differences and agree to Her Majesty's 'plan of a peace'; has received no answer from the Pensionary on this subject; asks if he may spend the 'Holy week' in the country if there are no further orders for him. This document is dated 'Friday morning'; the date provided is based on that of related correspondence.
Term	health, 1st Earl of Oxford
	diplomacy, with Netherlands
	wars, War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714
	patronage, thanks for

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA29971	Harley; Thomas (c.1667-1738); Mr; nephew of Sir Edward Harley	c.1667-1738
NA29972	Duvenvoorde; Arent (1669-1721); Baron van Wassenaer; Dutch diplomat	1669-1721
NA18608	Anne (1665-1714); Queen of Great Britain and Ireland	1665-1714
NA1085	Heinsius; Anthony (1641-1720); Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1688	1641-1720
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