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Harley (Robert, 1661-1724). 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, British statesman and Lord High Treasurer, 1711-1714. Document Signed, ‘Oxford’, as Lord High Treasurer, 21 February 1711/12 & 6 June 1712, manuscript Treasury order to pay George Lord Lansdowne £171 17s. 6d., for a half a year's rent of ‘Mole Park which was laid into Her Ma[jest]y’s Great Parke at Windsor’, signed in the right margin with countersignature of R[obert] Benson, with additional signatures of Fitzharding below, Halifax at foot and Lansdowne to verso, some light soiling and age wear, short marginal split close to Oxford’s signature, one page with integral blank tipped onto an old album leaf, folio (37 x 23.5 cm) (Quantity: 1) Robert Harley was an English and later British statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig before defecting to a new Tory ministry. He was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as an earl in 1711. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as Lord High Treasurer, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister. He has been called a prime minister, although it is generally accepted that the de facto first minister to be a prime minister was Robert Walpole in 1721. Robert Benson 1st Baron Bingley (1676-1731), English Tory politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1711 to 1713; George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (c. 1684-1739, auditor of the Exchequer); John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge of Bruton, Somerset (1650-1712), English courtier, Treasury official, army officer and politician; George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735), English Tory politician. He was Secretary at War during the Harley administration from 1710 to 1712. He was also a noted poet and playwright.