Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 739
Title	Draft letter from Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], Whitehall, London, to Mr [Alexander] Stanhope; 3/14 May 1706
Date	14 May 1706
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Hopes that Sir John Leake sailed from Gibraltar on 10/21 Apr and will arrive in time to 'raise the siege of Barcelona'; issues no new instructions and refers Stanhope to his previous letter; says that the Queen in Council has ordered the instructions to the 'Brivateen to be altered' with regard to the States. 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
	sieges, Barcelona 1706
	military campaigns, Iberian Peninsular 1705

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
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