^{page 49 note 1} Townshend.

^{page 49 note 2} For this see fo. 173.

^{page 52 note 1} Duke of Bourbon.

^{page 70 note 1} This refers to a project thrown out by Monteleon for strict friendship between Britain and Spain to secure: (1) the peaceful succession of Don Carlos to Parma and Tuscany; (2) compensations for the Electress Palatine who had been recognized as the Grand Duke's successor by the Sesate of Florence; (3) the succession of one of Philip's children to the throne of France in the event of the death of Louis XV, a project for which he claimed to have gained the support of Townshend and Carteret at The Hague in 1723. (See Brit. Mus. Add. 32738, ff 180, et seqq., Stanhope to Carteret, Madrid 15 Apr. 1724, N.S., and 32739, ff 13 and 14, Stanhope to Newcastle, Aranjuez 28 May 1724, N.S.)

^{page 76 note 1} See J. F. Chance, Diplomatic Instructions, Sweden, p. 168.

^{page 78 note 1} An intercepted letter to Broglie.

^{page 80 note 1} See, however, below, p. 84.

^{page 89 note 1} A suggestion that Fleury was prepared to support the Duke of Bourbon's claims to Neufchatel in preference to those of Frederick William, who as a Protestant was distasteful to the Bishop of Fréjus, and that for this reason the French government did not view the Treaty of Charlottenburg with favour (Brit. Mus. Add. 32741, fo. 117, H. Walpole to Newcastle 4 Nov. 1724, N.S.).

^{page 94 note 1} —¹ Cipher.

^{page 95 note 1} B.M., Add. MS. 38502 fo. 10.

^{page 102 note 1} France and Spain.

^{page 104 note 1} Tn the copy in Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 32743, fo. 183, the date is 3 May.

^{page 116 note 1} —¹ Cipher.

^{page 128 note 1} —¹ Cipher.

^{page 130 note 1} —¹ Cipher.

^{page 136 note 1} —¹ Cipher.

^{page 153 note 1} See Diplomatic Instructions, Sweden, 1689–1727, pp. 206–15.

^{page 157 note 1} —¹ Cipher.

^{page 183 note 1} See Chance, Diplomatic Instructions, Sweden, pp. 225–9.

^{page 184 note 1} Of the convention with Denmark. (See Chance, Diplomatic Instructions, Denmark, pp. xiii and 74–7.)

^{page 187 note 1} See J. F. Chance, Alliance of Hanover, p. 423.

^{page 189 note 1} —¹ Cipher.

^{page 190 note 1} See J. F. Chance, Diplomatic Instructions, Sweden, pp. 233–4.

^{page 196 note 1} See P.R.O., Confidential IA, Morville to Broglie, Fontainebleau, 5 Sept. 1726 N.S. Les mots dont jʼetois convenu aveo Mr. Walpole paroissant suffisans, pour ce que le Roy de la Grande Bretagne se propose en egard a son parlement, et d'un autre coté ee prince ne desirant pas sans doute et ne pouvant pas compter que le Roy puisse envoyer dans le Nord ou dans la Basse-Allemagne un corps de 30^m hommes, il semble assés inutile de rien changer quant a present a ce qui a été concerté parce que, encore une fois, cela nʼen vaut pas la peine, et que d'ailleurs Sa Majesté ne veut point prendre d'engagement quʼElle ne puisse remplir dans touts les cas.

^{page 201 note 1} The “long letter from Mr. Manteuffel to Mr. Le Cocq” is a Pro resolutione pour le Sieur Le Cocq, dated Warsaw, 7 Sept. 1726, covering eleven folios in reply to certain queries sent by Le Cocq, together with a covering letter from Manteuffel. The “relation” of Count Hoym to the King of Poland is an interesting comment, dated Bourbon l'Archanibaut, 12 Sept. 1726 N.S., from the point of view of a Polish statesman on British policy in the Baltie and the West Indies (P.R.O., Confidential, 1A).

^{page 205 note 1} —¹ Cipher.

^{page 206 note 1} i.e. Jacobite.

^{page 218 note 1} —¹ Cipher.

^{page 222 note 1} The essential sentence of this long letter, dated Berlin, 8 Feb., 1726/7, is as follows:—

“Il nʼy auroit rien de meilleur, que si V. M. vouloit bien, par la louable ardeur pour le bien et repos de l'Empire dont Elle a jusquʼ icy donné despreuves si eolatantes, declarer et me donner Sa parole Royale, quʼElle nʼa nulle intention de vouloir entreprendre une guerre offensive; ni Elle même, par les puissances ses alliés contre les constitutions de l'Empire, ou contre les provinces hereditaires que l'Empereur possede en Allemagne, et en particulier contre la Boheme et la Silesie, au quel cas je tacheray aussy de porter Majesté Imperiale à une declaration pareille pour les provinces et etatsque V.M. possede dans l'Empire.”

^{page 233 note 1} Broglie.

^{page 242 note 1} —¹ Cipher.

^{page 244 note 1} —¹ Cipher.