Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 733
Title	Draft letter from Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford], to Mr [Alexander] Stanhope; 27 Nov./8 Dec. 1705
Date	8 December 1705
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Expects that the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Sunderland will have arrived at The Hague; has written Sir D. Mitchel with the news that 'our fleet are safe arrived'; says that the queen has recommended the affair of Spain to both houses and circulated documents from the King of Spain and Lord Peterborough; says that the Commons voted an address to celebrate the success of the Anglo-Dutch forces in Catalonia and to promise their future support in this matter; expects the Commons to vote to augment the armed forces so that Stanhope may 'press' the States to do the same. This document has been identified as being in the hand of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford. Old Style dating on letter.
Term	wars, War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714
	armies, Anglo-Dutch, augmentation of
	diplomacy, with Netherlands
	military campaigns, Iberian Peninsular 1705

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA13806	Churchill; John (1650-1722); 1st Duke of Marlborough; created 1702; Marquis of Blandford	1650-1722
NA28983	Spencer; Charles (c.1674-1722); 3rd Earl of Sunderland; statesman and bibliophile	c.1674-1722
NA29488	Mitchell; David (c.1650-1710); Sir; knighted 1694; vice-admiral; lord commissioner of Admiralty 1699-1702	c.1650-1710
NA18610	Mordaunt; Charles (c.1658-1735); 3rd Earl of Peterborough; succ. as Viscount Mordaunt 1675; cr. 1st Earl of Monmouth 1689; succ. his uncle as Earl of Peterborough 1697	c.1658-1735
NA18625	Philip V (1683-1746); King of Spain	1683-1746
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