Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 738
Title	Draft letter from Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], Whitehall, London, to Mr [Alexander] Stanhope; 30 Apr./11 May 1706
Date	11 May 1706
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Discusses the delay in the reception of reports from Sir John Leake regarding the campaign in Portugal; refers to the ongoing negotiations with Mr Vryberge regarding the fleet; says that Vryberge's arguments 'seeme only to relate to the command of the fleet'; states that he did not think it proper to lay this before the queen as it is 'contrary to all former practice'; comments as to whether the 'merit of officers' should be judged 'by their antiquity'. 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
	navies, Anglo-Dutch, command of
	military campaigns, Iberian Peninsular 1705

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA29461	Leake; John (1656-1720); Sir; admiral; M.P.; lord of Admiralty 1709	1656-1720
NA29491	Vryberge; - (fl 1705-1706); Mr; representative of Grand Pensionary of Holland?; diplomat?	fl 1705-1706
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