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Partitions and peace aims discussed at Hague during 1709 10
Report from The Hague dated April 1 N.S. describes French plenipotentiaries offering a partition of the Spanish monarchy after meetings at Gertruydenbergh with Ministers of France. Proposals included Naples and Sicily for the Duke of Anjou or Aragon for allies, with Sicily, Sardinia, and other Spanish possessions if rejected. Deputies express no power to treat partitions and return. a dispatch to Versailles follows. A list of peers and bishops totals 69 guilty and 52 not guilty in a separate record.
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Hague
N.S
Meffieurs Buys
Vanderduffen
Gertruydenbergh
France
Duke of Marlborough
Lord Townshend
Count de Zinzendorf
Spain
Duke of Anjou
Naples
Sicily
Arragon
Sardinia
Tusca
Versailles