Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 1365
Title	Extract of a letter from Henry St John [later 1st Viscount Bolingbroke], Whitehall, London, to Mr Scott; 6 Feb. 1711/2
Date	6 February 1712
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Encloses a letter [not present] from the Queen to the Electress Dowager [of Saxony]; instructs Scott to offer all assistance in 'warding off so fatal a blow as the Perversion of the young Prince to the Popish Religion'; empowers Scott to concur in the Electress' requests if there is not enough time to send to England for instructions; says that Queen Anne would be willing to make 'her Court an Asylum to the young Prince'. Old Style dating on letter. Parts of text missing due to damage to document.
Term	religious affairs, anti-Catholicism
	diplomacy, with Saxony
	diplomacy, with Poland
	religion, personal, August III King of Poland

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA30046	Anne Sophia (1647-1717); Electress of Saxony; (d. of Frederick III of Denmark; m. John III Elector of Saxony 1666)	1647-1717
NA18608	Anne (1665-1714); Queen of Great Britain and Ireland	1665-1714
NA30047	Augustus Frederick II (1696-1763); King of Poland and Elector of Saxony; (acc. 1733; elector of Saxony?)	1696-1763
NA19002	St John; Henry (1678-1751); 1st Viscount Bolingbroke; statesman	1678-1751
NA30048	Scott; James (fl 1711-1715); Mr; envoy extraordinary to Poland 1711-5; resided Poland/Saxony until 1715	fl 1711-1715