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Document ReferencePw2 Hy 567
TitleLetter from David Edwards, to Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford]; n.d. [c.1703-1709]
Date1703-1709
Extent2 ff
LevelItem/file
Content DescriptionExplains that his wife 'must actually be the woman'; says that he could not 'persuade my woman to keep at home'; says that his trade is 'dead'; hopes that if 'this be the right woman' that the government will be generous and 'put me into a capacity to be above the insults of my enemies'.

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Termwomen, attitudes towards
patronage, requests for

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CodePersonNameDates of existence
NA29329Edwards; David (fl 1703-1706); Jacobite; printed a seditious memorial of the Church of England; brother of Thomas Edwardsfl 1703-1706
NA893Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-17141661-1724
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