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The Recall of the British from the Dutch Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

George Hilton Jones
George Hilton Jones
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Eastern Illinois University
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The Historical Journal , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 1982 , pp. 423 - 435
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References

1 Burnet, Gilbert, bishop of Salisbury, A history of my own time, 6 vols. (Oxford, 1833), iii, 220.Google Scholar

2 Several papers relating to this episode are printed by Sir Ferguson, James (ed.), Papers illustrating the history of the Scots Brigade in the service of the United Netherlands, 1572–1782, 1, Scottish History Soc. Publications XXXII (Edinburgh, 1899), 536–41.Google Scholar

3 For several of these sources of disagreement, see Jones, George Hilton, Charles Middleton: the life and times of a Restoration politician (Chicago, 1967), pp. 131–7, 177–86, 192–210.Google Scholar

4 Apparently this is what Johann Philipp Hoffmann, imperial secretary in England, referred to in his dispatch of 3 Feb. 1688, telling of troubles the Dutch authorities had had with the British regiments. Emilia, , Cavelli, Marquise Campana de (ed.), Les demiers Stuarts à St.-Germain-en-Laye, 2 vols. (Paris, 1871), 11, 171–2Google Scholar. See also Burnet, , History, iii, 220–1.Google Scholar

5 Ministère des Affaires Etrangerès (Paris, henceforth A.E.), Correspondance politique, Angleterre 165, fo. 59.

6 Ibid. fos. 65–6.

7 Ferguson (ed.), Scots Brigade, 1, 542.

8 Public Record Office (henceforth P.R.O.), S.P. 8/4, fo. 118.

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11 Ibid. fo. 60.

12 B.L. Add. MS 29,578, fo. 154; Add. MS 25,375, fo- 147; Algeraeen Rijksarchief (The Hague, henceforth A.R.), Staten Generaal, Engeland 5925, fo. 31 (transcribed B.L. Add. MS 17,677 HH, fo. 313).

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16 States General session, 8 Feb. 1688, A. R., Staten Generaal, 1, 1799.

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23 Ibid. fo. 137.

24 An historical account of the British regiments employed since the reign of Queen Elizabeth and King James I in the formation and defence of the Dutch Republic… (London, 1794), p. 63; B.L. Add. MS 41,815, fo. 137.Google Scholar

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28 Ferguson (ed.), Scots Brigade, 1, 547; Terriesi’s dispatch of 17/27 Feb. 1688, B.L. Add. MS 25,375, fo. 199.

29 A.R., Collectie van Citters, xvi, 50–1.

30 Jones, Charles Middleton, pp. 73, 121–2. Terriesi confirmed the cause of de Paz’s dismissal. B.L. Add. MS 25,375, fo. 221.

31 A. Moreau to the king of Poland, 24 Feb. 1688, B.L. Add. MS 38,494, fo. 35. Moreau, not always reliable, reported that only one officer asked leave to go home and one asked time to consider.

32 B.L. Add. MS 41,823, fo. 62.

33 B.L. Add. MS 41,821, fo. 32.

34 B.L. Add. MS 41,815, fo. 172.

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43 Dalton (ed.), English army lists, 11; Ferguson (ed.), Scots Brigade, 1.

44 Calendar of Treasury books, viii, 1789–90, 1815; B.L. Add. MS 32,095, fos. 251–2; Add. MS 41,821, fos. 32, 38–9, 43.

45 B.L. Add. MS 41,815, fo. 162; Add. MS 41,823, fo. 61.

46 P.R.O., S.P. 8/4, fo. 126.

47 A.E., Corr. pol., Ang. 165, fos. 91–2.

48 Louis XIV to Barrillon, 9 March (n.s.) 1688, Ibid., fos. 143–4.

49 B.L. Add. MS 41,823, fo. 66.

50 Klopp, Fall, iv, 3.

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52 See P.R.O., S.P. 104/187, p. 275; and A.E., Corr. pol., Ang. 165, fos. 215–16.

53 Jones, Charles Middleton, p. 189.

54 Giacomo Ronchi to the duke of Modena, 18 March (n.s.) 1688, Archivio di Stato (Modena), Oratori e Ambasciatori, Inghilterra, Busta iv.

55 Dalton (ed.), English army lists, ii, 151–6, 158, 160, 162.

56 B.L. Add. MS 17,677 HH, fos. 338–40; A.R., Staten Generaal, 1, 1800.

57 Extract of resolution of the States General, 13 March (n.s.) 1688, A.R., Collectie van Citters, vol. 30.

58 B.L. Add. MS 41,823, fos. 63–4.

59 Ibid. fo. 65; States General session, 5 April 1688, A.R., Staten Generaal, 1, 1801. Ferguson printed most of Albeville’s memorial and the entire capitulation in Scots Brigade, 1, 556—60.

60 Dalton (ed.), English army lists, 11, 231.

61 B.L. Add. MS 32,095, fos. 255–6.

62 Complete peerage, s.v. ‘Cutts of Gowran’; Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, iv (1869), 37–8.

63 B.L. Add. MS 41,805, fos. 23–4.

64 B.L. Add. MS 41,821, fo. 79; Dalton (ed.), English army lists, ii, 238 (for Ferguson); A.R., Raad van State 109, fo. 195 (for Cutts’s commission).

65 Ferguson (ed.), Scots Brigade, 1, 561–5.

66 Ibid. p. 565.

67 A.E., Corr. pol., Ang. 165, fo. 216.

68 B.L. Add. MS 41,815, fo. 251.

69 B.L. Add. MS 25,375, fo. 254.

70 B.L. Add. MS 41,815, fo. 250.

71 Ibid. fos. 251–2.

72 B.L. Add. MS 41,827, fo. 19.

73 A.E., Corr. pol., Ang. 165, fo. 215.

74 Ibid. fos. 274–5.

75 P.R.O., S.P. 77/55, fo. 424.

76 Jones, Charles Middleton, pp. 190–1.

77 B.L. Add. MS 41,821, fo. 167.

78 Ibid. fos. 225, 238.

79 P.R.O., W.O. 4/1, pp. 79–80.

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86 B.L. Add. MS 41,821, fo. 58.

87 Ibid. fo. 93.

88 B.L. Add. MS 41,815, fo. 250.

89 Ferguson (ed.), Scots Brigade, 1, 505–6; Dalton (ed.), English army lists, 11, 9.

90 P.R.O., S.P. 8/2, fos. 37–8.

91 B.L. Add. MS 41,816, fo. 104.

92 Dalton (ed.), English army lists, 11, 123, 160; Ferguson (ed.), Scots Brigade, 1, 513.

93 Besides those already cited, see B.L. Add. MS 34,487, fo. 17; and Add. MS 41,816, fo. 86.

94 B.L. Add. MS 25,376, fo. 190. Terriesi, however, was at a distance and had no access to Dutch secrets.

95 B.L. Add. MS 41,816, fo. 172