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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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
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.”