Pau Ignasi Dalmases was the ambassador sent by the Catalan Courts to England, in what is known as the Dalmases Embassy. Dalmases had already acted as an envoy of the Council of Hundred on previous occasions, and in 1713, in the midst of the War of Succession, he was chosen by the Catalan institutions to try to agree a diplomatic exit in the case of the Catalans. He was sent in March of that year to London to speak with Queen Anne and soon after he left for Utrecht, where the peace congress was being held. He later returned to England, where on June 28, 1713 he was received by Queen Anne, who begged her to do everything possible for Catalonia to preserve its liberties and laws once the war was over. With his tenacity, he succeeded in getting twenty-four lords to question the queen in the House of Lords on April 3, 1714, in what has become known as the “case of the Catalans” debate.
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