Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 902
Title	Letter from James Bourke, to [Robert Harley] 1st Earl of Oxford; 1 Apr. 1712
Date	1 April 1712
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Asks the earl to look at his case; says that his grandfather forfeited his lands in Ireland in 1641 for 'taking up arms for King Charles the first and K[ing] Charles the second against the usurper Oliver Cromwell'; states that the 'small benevolence' granted by King Charles after the Restoration has been lost in the 'late revolution'; reports that the Duke of Ormond and Lord Lansdowne are assisting him in attempts to find a place in the army; asks that Oxford add his voice to their campaign.
Term	estate business, lands, forfeiture of
	patronage, requests for
	wars, English Civil War

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA7566	Charles I (1600-1649); King of England Scotland and Ireland; (succeeded 1625)	1600-1649
NA13004	Charles II (1630-1685); King of England Scotland and Ireland; acc. 1649	1630-1685
NA29686	Butler; James (1665-1745); 2nd Duke of Ormonde; succ. 1688; formerly styled Earl of Ossory; Jacobite; impeached and attainted 1715	1665-1745
NA29687	Granville; George (1667-1735); Baron Lansdowne; cr. 1711; imprisoned in Tower on suspicion of Jacobitism 1715-1717	1667-1735
NA647	Cromwell; Oliver (1599-1658); Lord Protector	1599-1658
NA29688	Bourke; James (fl 1712)	fl 1712
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724