Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 1222
Title	Copy of letter from Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], to Mr Buys; 24 Sep./5 Oct. 1706
Date	5 October 1706
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Discusses the need for 'vigorous preparation' for the campaign of the following year, lest the French should turn any delays to their advantage; says that everything possible should be done to 'prevent the ill effects of unreasonable jealousies'; states that an 'indissoluble union between Holland and England is the interest of both nations'; claims that England much prefers the friendship of the States to that of the Court of Vienna; encloses an extract of his letter to Mr Stepney [not present] and says the position was put over in even stronger terms to Count Galas.
Term	diplomacy, with Netherlands
	diplomacy, with Holy Roman Empire
	military campaigns, Europe 1707
	wars, War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA29476	Gallas; Johann W. (1669-1719); Count von Gallas; ambassador of Holy Roman Empire to England?	1669-1719
NA29490	Stepney; George (1663-1707); Mr; diplomat; poet	1663-1707
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724
NA29481	Buys; Willem (1661-1749); -; Pensionary of Amsterdam 1693-1725	1661-1749