Record

Document Reference	Pl C 27/64
Title	Letter from Sir John [Hamilton-] Dalrymple [-MacGill], Edinburgh, Scotland to [W.H.C. Bentinck] 3rd Duke of Portland; n.d. [1780-1807]
Date	1780-1807
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Presents compliments to the duke and encloses an account of the 'Partition Treaties' in which he has tried to do justice to King William [for another volume for his 'Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland from the dissolution of the last Parliament of Charles II until the Sea Battle of La Hogue' published 1771]; regrets that he did not have the 'materials' to allow him to do justice to Lord Portland; reports that in with King William's papers is a bundle of 30 letters from Lord Portland to the King about the peace of Ryswick conducted by the Lord. Date estimated from the period covered by this collection of the 3rd Duke's correspondence.
Term	history, writing of

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1083	William III (1650-1702); King of England Scotland and Ireland	1650-1702
NA1043	Bentinck; H. William (1649-1709); 1st Earl of Portland; diplomat and adviser of William of Orange; alias Hans Willem	1649-1709
NA40418	Magill; John Hamilton-Dalrymple- (1726-1810); 4th Baronet; formerly John Dalrymple; Baron of the Exchequer; succeeded as Baronet 1771	1726-1810
NA905	Bentinck; William H.C. Cavendish- (1738-1809); 3rd Duke of Portland; succ. 1762	1738-1809