Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 630
Title	Draft letter from Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], to Mr Redmond Joye, Standard Tavern, near St James's, London; 11 Feb. 1705/6
Date	11 February 1706
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	States that the form of protection that he may require has been drawn up; says that the Queen cannot grant protection in civil matters such as debt; asks which Secretary of State Joye wishes to have knowledge of the protection as otherwise it can not be done; asks if a 'plain promise of pardon' will be sufficient. Old Style dating on letter.
Term	royalty, authority
	legal business, pardons, Redmond Joye
	crimes, pro-Jacobite

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724
NA29383	Joye; Redmond (fl 1706); Mr	fl 1706

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