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Three pages, 4to, discussing a court case involving 1800 pounds in connection with the construction of Blenheim Palace. Lengthy letter to an unnamed correspondent, in part: “As the affair of Mr. Travers, if you want information in anything relating to it I will look among all my papers for anything you think necessary. But at present I can only say some things that I remember, that in the trial when my Lord Maulesfiled ordered him to account for the 1800 pounds he had charged in so infamous a manner, there was one letter of the Duke of Marlborough’s produced at that trial which only showed that my Lord Marlborough had writ to Mr. Travers…”

After the battle of Blenheim the manor of Woodstock (a municipal borough in Oxfordshire) was bestowed in perpetuity on John, Duke of Marlborough and Blenheim Palace was erected for him by order of Queen Anne and Parliament in consideration of his military service. Blenhiem Palace was designed by British dramatist and architect Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726).