1-272-898 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Letter from Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, to the future King George I, c1711. Letter from Harley to George Louis, Elector of Hanover (who became King George I in 1714), announcing, on behalf of Queen Anne, the dismissal of the Duchess of Marlborough from her service as Mistress of the Robes and protesting his fidelity and inviolable attachment to the House of Hanover. The letter was written when Harley was Chancellor of the Exchequer and head of the Ministry. He was raised to the peerage and appointed Lord High Treasurer in the following May. From the third series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899).