| Content Description | Hopes that the parties [Guarantors of the Treaty of Travandale] will be persuaded to maintain the 'prohibition' [on commerce with France] at least until the issue can be properly debated; expects to hear the resolutions concerning Danzig and the Bishopric of Lubec; discusses reports of a man at The Hague going by the name of 'St Harry' who has been consulting with various people there including Sir G. Maxwell, Levingtten, Hays and someone in disguise; says that he came from St Germains and had possibly been a page; describes the man and asks who he is; believes that he could make 'discoverys' if he could be 'rightly managed'.
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This document has been identified as being in the hand of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford.
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