Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 1082
Title	Memorandum relative to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford; n.d. [c.1715-1717]
Date	1715-1717 (c)
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Says that Mr Knights said that the Parliament would 'sitt no more, but would be dissolved'; reports the assertion that Harley received 100,000 from France to 'bring home ye pretender who was to come upon the dissolution of parlamt'; says that the Pretender was then to issue writs in his name and call a new parliament; says that the Queen was to resign the throne in favour of her brother; implicates Bullingbrook in the conspiracy. This document is undated; the date provided is based on internal evidence.
Term	parliamentary business, dissolution
	crimes, high treason
	crimes, pro-Jacobite
	legal cases, against 1st Earl of Oxford

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724
NA18922	James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766); Prince of Wales; 'the Old Pretender'; son of James II; also known as Chevalier de St George	1688-1766
NA29932	Knights; - (fl 1715-1717); Mr; of London; gave evidence against 1st Earl of Oxford	fl 1715-1717
NA29933	St John; Henry (1678-1751); 1st Viscount Bolingbroke; M.P.; attainted 1715; served titular James III	1678-1751