Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 1217
Title	Copy of letter from Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], Whitehall, London, to Mr Buys; 19/30 May 1704
Date	30 May 1704
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Thanks providence that he is in a position to 'be where my inclination is...to serve the Common Cause'; believes that 'Common danger makes the interest of Holland to be one with ours'; reports on the arrival of the 'unfortunate news of the Conjunction of the French and Bavarians'; believes they should untie their strengths instead of quarrelling over such incidents; hopes that the Duke of Marlborough may be able to recover this 'misfortune'; requests that troops be made available to be sent into Germany to Marlborough.
Term	diplomacy, with Netherlands
	armies, Dutch, with Duke of Marlborough
	diplomacy, between Bavaria and France
	foreign policy, towards France
	wars, War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714
	military campaigns, Duke of Marlborough 1704

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA13806	Churchill; John (1650-1722); 1st Duke of Marlborough; created 1702; Marquis of Blandford	1650-1722
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724
NA29481	Buys; Willem (1661-1749); -; Pensionary of Amsterdam 1693-1725	1661-1749