[Rarebooks] fa: LETTER from the STATES-GENERAL to QUEEN ANNE - 1712 BROADSIDE

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A Letter from the States-General to the Queen of Great-Britain, about  
the Duke of Ormond’s Orders not to Fight; and the Bishop of Bristol’s  
Declaration, that the Queen thought Herself disengaged from all  
Obligations to the Dutch. [London:] Printed in the Year 1712. Tall  
folio (34 x 18 cm); single sheet broadside printed on recto and verso,  
[2]p., on heavy card backing. ESTC T37980.

A protest against England's overtures for a separate peace in the War  
of the Spanish Succession, addressed to Queen Anne and printed by  
those who sympathized with the Dutch. The "letter" was "sent back  
without an answer" by Parliament, who regarded it as a "great  
Indignity" and "an affront to Her Majesty." Light creases, a bit of  
soiling along the folds; neatly mounted onto a card backing at the  
left edge with what appears to be archival tape. An unusual Queen Anne  
item.