Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 683
Title	Draft letter from Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], Whitehall, London, to Mr [Alexander] Stanhope; 2/13 Jan. 1704/5.
Date	13 January 1705
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Instructs Stanhope (on behalf of the Queen) to continue his negotiations with the Pensionary and the 'States'; asks if he can 'hasten' the negotiations regarding the deployment of troops at Lisbon; says that Queen Anne is willing to 'gratify the States in letting them buy their Dragoon Horses in Ireland'; asks Stanhope to inform Mr Schmestau? of the Queen's intention to make a payment to the King of Prussia; comments on the 3000 forces of the King of Prussia which are to be received 'if there be occasion' and hopes that it is sufficiently covered in the treaty; discusses other aspects of the negotiations regarding Portugal; refers to the issue of Gibraltar; refers to a document by the 'States' relating to the Marquis of Bedmar. Large sections of text missing due to damage to document. This document has been identified as being in the hand of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford. Old Style dating on letter.
Term	diplomacy, with guarantors of the Treaty of Travendahl
	diplomacy, with Prussia
	armies, Prussian, manoeuvres
	wars, War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714
	military campaigns, Gibraltar 1704-1705
	diplomacy, with Netherlands

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA18608	Anne (1665-1714); Queen of Great Britain and Ireland	1665-1714
NA29462	-; -; Marquess of Bedmar?. fl 1704
NA29463	Schmestau; - (fl 1704); Mr; Prussian diplomat?	fl 1704
NA29458	Frederick I (1657-1713 ); King of Prussia; ( acc. 1701; styled Frederick III Elector of Brandenberg until 1701)	1657-1713
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724
NA29446	Stanhope; Alexander (1638-1707); Mr; English Envoy Extraordinary to the Netherlands 1700-6; father of 1st Earl Stanhope	1638-1707