| Content Description | Is glad that Stanhope finds it 'so easy' to settle the contraband issue; conveys the queen's decision that the 'State's subjects may trade with France if they think good'; states the limits of the queen's tolerance upon this issue; hopes that Stanhope can 'hasten' the ships to join Lord Carmarthen.
This document has been identified as being in the hand of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford.
Old Style dating on letter. |