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Pw2Hy - Papers of the Harley Family, 1602-1738, in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection
- 1409

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 1409/1-2
Title	Copy of letter from H. St John [later 1st Viscount Bolingbroke], Whitehall, London, to [Richard Savage] 4th Earl Rivers; 5 Oct. 1711
Date	5 October 1711
Extent	4 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Instructs Lord Rivers on behalf of the Queen relative to his diplomatic mission to Hanover; refers briefly to the letters given to Rivers to present to the Elector and Princess Sophia; asks him to present the Elector with the steps the Queen has taken in relation to the peace; explains why the Queen feels it impossible for her to continue the war, shouldering as she is the greatest burden of all the allies; asks him to transmit the paper signed by Monsieur Mesnager and says the Queen believes the basis upon which the French wish to open peace negotiations are reasonable; comments that it is unfair to the people of England for the Queen to continue the war at such an 'exorbitant and disproportionate' charge; stresses the actions of the Queen to subvert those in Britain who speak out against the Electoral family. Comments on the Queen's diplomatic correspondence with Denmark regarding the possible winter quartering of the Danish troops in Brimon; says he will also represent this to M. Rosenkrantz and urge the Danish King to refrain from such an action; asks him to represent to the Elector the problems caused by the large loan to Denmark, as without this the invasion could not have gone ahead.
Term	diplomacy, with Hanover
	diplomacy, with French
	diplomacy, with Denmark
	diplomacy, between Denmark and Hanover
	financial affairs, loans, from Hanover to Denmark
	armies, Danish, winter-quarters
	foreign policy, towards Hanover
	wars, War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714, finance
	financial affairs, Crown, war effort

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Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA18608	Anne (1665-1714); Queen of Great Britain and Ireland	1665-1714
NA19598	George I (1660-1727); King of Great Britain and Ireland	1660-1727
NA18684	Sophia Dorothea (1687-1757); Queen Consort; ( dau. of George I; m Frederick William I of Prussia)	1687-1757
NA30082	Mesnager; Nicolas Le Bailly (1658-1714); -; French ambassador to Utrecht	1658-1714
NA29485	Rosenkrantz; Iver (1674-1745); Monsieur; Danish statesman and diplomat; ambassador to England 1709-14	1674-1745
NA30083	Frederik IV (1671-1730 ); King of Denmark; ( acc. 1699)	1671-1730
NA19002	St John; Henry (1678-1751); 1st Viscount Bolingbroke; statesman	1678-1751
NA30078	Savage; Richard (c.1654-1712); 4th Earl Rivers; succ. 1694; M.P.; diplomat; styled Viscount Colchester c.1680-1694	c.1654-1712

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