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Robert Molesworth, Thomas Fotherby, Hugh Greg, Lord Lexington, 1689–1701
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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Robert Molesworth was a leading supporter of William III in Ireland. Attainted in 1688, he was reinstated after the Revolution and in June 1689 was sent to replace Sir Gabriel Sylvius as envoy extraordinary to Christian V of Denmark. He landed at Elsinore on 8/18 July 1689.
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- British Diplomatic Instructions, Denmark, 1689–1789
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- Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1926
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page 1 note 1 A letter from him dated 24 May 1689 would indicate that he had been at Copenhagen previously. But since it refers to the prohibition of trade with France, of August 1689, it is obviously misdated.
page 1 note 2 His nephew and secretary, William Greg, attained some notoriety, being executed in 1708 for treasonable correspondence with France.
page 4 note 1 William Duncombe: instructions for and dispatches to him, Volume I, pp. 1–23.
page 4 note 2 Probably Sir Paul Rycaut, minister at Hamburg. He was given a “lettre de cachet,” of date 22 June (O.S.) 1689, to convey to the duke of Holstein-Gottorp the sentiments of William III on his affairs (Record Office, Foreign Entry Book 194).
page 5 note 1 Robert Goes, who died in April 1724 after more than 40 years' service at Copenhagen successively as secretary, minister resident, and envoy.
page 7 note 1 Duke Ferdinand William of Würtemberg-Neustadt, who commanded the Danish forces in Ireland and afterwards in Flanders. See for him the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.
page 12 note 1 Christian von Lente, the Danish ambassador in Holland.