Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-fscjk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-18T19:49:18.934Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Duke of Marlborough Viscount Townshend 1709–10

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Extract

In March 1709 conferences were begun between the Dutch and their allies' representatives at The Hague, and President Rouille, whom Louis XIV, greatly pressed by the results of the hard winter of 1709 and the failure of the Turks to promise a diversion in the East, had sent to negotiate a peace

Type
British Diplomatic Instructions, France, 1689–1721
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1925

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 15 note 1 A duplicate was sent separately to Townshend.

page 17 note 1 i.e. 1709 O.S.

page 17 note 2 See G. de Lamberty, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIIe siècle Vol. VI. The Hague, 1728, p. 3.

page 20 note 1 Cf. Diplomatic Instructions, Sweden, pp. 66–7.

page 22 note 1 The text is reproduced as written. Presumably the sentence should run somewhat as follows: “the pretensions of the Crown of England, if they should be postponed.”