Autograph letter signed : Whitehall, to the Earl of Orrery, 1712 May 8.

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Autograph letter signed : Whitehall, to the Earl of Orrery, 1712 May 8.

Concerning his instructions as envoy, current politics, mutual friends, etc.

1 item (4 p.) ; (8vo)

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Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751

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Henry St. John Bolingbroke was born in Battersea in 1678. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. He married the daughter of Sir Henry Winchcomb. After entering parliament in 1701, he devoted himself to politics, joined the Tory party, and soon made himself prominent as an orator. In 1710, he was made Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In 1712, he was called to the House of Lords by the title of Viscount Bolingbroke. In 1724 he returned to England, but after being blocked from a political futur...

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