Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 1155
Title	Letter from William Van Heels [Huls], Whitehall, London, to [Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford]; n.d. [c.1713]
Date	1713 (c)
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Reports that the French have given Lord Albermarle leave to return to Tournay 'for four days in order to settle his family affairs'; says Albermarle is to be transported to Orleans with the 'rest of the Prisoners'; comments that their side always granted leave to return to the family seat to any prisoner 'of note' but that the French have not done so in this case; thanks Oxford for offering his intercession for Albermarle's release; asks if he may assure Albermarle of Oxford's 'friendship and protection'. This document is dated 'Friday noon'; the date provided is based on that of related correspondence from the same writer.
Term	diplomacy, with Netherlands
	prisoners, of war
	wars, War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714
	patronage, requests for
	diplomacy, with France

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA29944	Keppel; Arnold Joost van (1670-1718); 1st Earl of Albemarle; member of Nobles of the States General	1670-1718
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