Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 763
Title	Draft letter from Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], Whitehall, London, to Mr [Alexander] Stanhope; 3/14 Sep. 1706
Date	14 September 1706
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
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. Old Style dating on letter.
Term	military campaigns, Iberian Peninsular 1706
	foreign policy, pensions, Prince Charles of Denmark
	diplomacy, with Berlin
	diplomacy, with Hanover
	diplomacy, with Holy Roman Empire
	diplomacy, with Denmark
	navies, English, manoeuvres
	weather, wind
	diplomacy, with Netherlands

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA18625	Philip V (1683-1746); King of Spain	1683-1746
NA29492	Charles (1680-1729); Prince of Denmark; (4th son of King Christian V of Denmark)	1680-1729
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