| Content Description | Thinks it strange that the winds are not bringing news from Portugal; hopes that they will receive an account of the retreat of the Duke of Anjou; hopes that the fleet will have a 'fair wind before the equinox'; assumes that Stanhope is discussing with the Pensionary ways of preventing the imminent incursion of the Swedes into Germany; has written to Vienna, Berlin and Hanover as this affair 'requires dispatch'; directs Stanhope to concur with any resolutions taken at The Hague; asks for notification of the amount of recompense which [the States] intend to pay to Prince Charles [of Denmark].
This document has been identified as being in the hand of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford.
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