Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 691
Title	Draft letter from Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], Whitehall, London, to Mr [Alexander] Stanhope; 20/31 Mar. 1704/5
Date	31 March 1705
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Hopes that the queen's favour with regard to the 'States merchant ships wil put them in good humour'; supports Stanhope's response to the Pensioner's less than agreeable attitude regarding Danzig; believes that the Pensioner has misunderstood the queen's behaviour; says that Stanhope may inform the Czar's minister that the request he mentioned with reference to his master's ships 'hath no foundation'; encloses an extract [not present] from Lord Methuen's letter; wishes Stanhope to attempt to speed up the payments of subsidies due to the King of Portugal. This document has been identified as being in the hand of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford. Old Style dating on letter.
Term	diplomacy, with Netherlands
	diplomacy, with Portugal
	foreign policy, Danzig
	treaties, Berlin 1705

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1085	Heinsius; Anthony (1641-1720); Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1688	1641-1720
NA29468	Methuen; John (c.1650-1706); Mr; ambassador to Portugal	c.1650-1706
NA29459	Pedro II (1648-1706); King of Portugal; ( acc. 1683)	1648-1706
NA18608	Anne (1665-1714); Queen of Great Britain and Ireland	1665-1714
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724
NA29446	Stanhope; Alexander (1638-1707); Mr; English Envoy Extraordinary to the Netherlands 1700-6; father of 1st Earl Stanhope	1638-1707