Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 1151
Title	Letter from William Van Heels [Huls], Whitehall, London, to [Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford]; 30 Jul. 1713
Date	30 July 1713
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Expresses his joy at Oxford's recovery; reports that his agency has 'been disposed of' during Oxford's illness to Simon Stopur for £1300 with no regard to Oxford's intercession or his own rights; asks if the Queen and her Council are punishing him for 'Ld Portland's faults' and fining him a 'thousand guineas towards paying Lord Ashburnham's Commission'; requests that Oxford intercede as his patron; has represented his case to the Duke of Ormond as the 'Generall and Director in chief of all military matters'. Adds in a post script that the death of Captain Colt may be a 'happy expedient to make good any loss' if supported by Oxford's favour.
Term	patronage, requests for
	disputes, financial, William Van Huls v Crown
	health, 1st Earl of Oxford
	appointments, military

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1044	Bentinck; Henry (1682-1726); 1st Duke of Portland; 2nd Earl of Portland; cr. 1716; styled Viscount Woodstock 1689-1709	1682-1726
NA18608	Anne (1665-1714); Queen of Great Britain and Ireland	1665-1714
NA12652	Ashburnham; John (1687-1737); 1st Earl of Ashburnham	1687-1737
NA29686	Butler; James (1665-1745); 2nd Duke of Ormonde; succ. 1688; formerly styled Earl of Ossory; Jacobite; impeached and attainted 1715	1665-1745
NA29968	Stopur; Simon (fl 1713); -; granted military agency rightfully belonging to William Van Heels	fl 1713
NA29969	Colt; - (-1713); Captain	-1713
NA29941	Huls; Carel Willem van (fl 1663-1714); Dutch; diplomatic channel between 1st Earl of Oxford and Pensionary Heinsius	fl 1663-1714
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724