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Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 737
Title	Draft letter from Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], Whitehall, London, to Mr [Alexander] Stanhope; 26 Apr./7 May 1706
Date	7 May 1706
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Confirms the news of the 'taking of Aleautarx'; comments on the reaction of the French to this news; relays instructions regarding negotiations with the minister of the Duke of Savoy; wishes Stanhope to 'press' the States on this matter. 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
	wars, War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714
	diplomacy, with Savoy
	battles, Aleautarx 1706
	military campaigns, Iberian Peninsular 1705

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
NA29446	Stanhope; Alexander (1638-1707); Mr; English Envoy Extraordinary to the Netherlands 1700-6; father of 1st Earl Stanhope	1638-1707

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