Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 747
Title	Draft letter from Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], Whitehall, London, to Mr [Alexander] Stanhope; 2/13 Jul. 1706
Date	13 July 1706
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Reports that Lord Galway has sent word that he is marching with the army to Madrid; reports on various developments of the war in Spain; is awaiting news of the siege of Ostend. This document has been identified as being in the hand of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford. Old Style dating on letter.
Term	military campaigns, Iberian Peninsular 1706
	sieges, Ostend 1706
	wars, War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA973	Ruvigny; Henry Massue de (1648-1720); 1st Earl of Galway; succ. as 2nd Marquis de Ruvigny 1689; cr. 4th Viscount Galway 1692; cr. 1st Earl of Galway 1697; commanded troops in Portugal and Spain 1704-1710	1648-1720
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