^{page xiii note 1} On the preference given by the Pelhams to Chesterfield see a letter from Stephen Poyntz to Trevor in the Trevor Papers (Hist. MSS. Commission), p. 110. “I have the pleasure to assure you that the most open and hearty one amongst them [the newcomers to the ministry], and he in whom Mr. Pelham places the chief confidence, is my old friend Lord Chesterfield.”

^{page xiv note 1} The valuable Trevor Papers have been published by the Hist. MSS. Commission (14th Report, App. Part ix. Buckinghamshire Papers).

^{page xv note 1} For Chesterfield's instructions, dated 9 January 1745, see B.M. Add. MSS. 35, 434, fo. 2. They are not in the Dutch State Papers.

^{page xiv note 2} It should be noted that Trevor had also carried on a private correspondence with the Pelhams when Carteret was his official superior. He continued to do so when Harrington succeeded Carteret.

^{page xiv note 3} For Newcastle's schemes and his subsequent realization of them see Lodge, Studies in Eighteenth Century Diplomacy, pp. 158–9, 215.

^{page xvi note 1} Stone continued to act as Newcastle's private secretary, and it was in that capacity that he wrote the letters to Chesterfield in this volume. But he also held since 1734 an official position in the Foreign Office as Under Secretary in the Southern Department. There is a fairly full account of his career in the Dictionary of National Biography.

^{page xvi note 2} Chesterfield and Trevor to Harrington, 12 March 1744 (S.P. For. Holland, 409, fo. 22).

^{page xvii note 1} The best account of Dutch polities at this time is to be found in Dr. P. Geyl's Willem IV en Engeland tot 1748.

^{page xix note 1} The letters to Andrié of 26 and 27 January 1745 are in Frederick's, Politische Correspondenz, iv. pp. 21, 23, and 27Google Scholar. See also Lodge, Relations of Great Britain and Prussia, p. 55.

^{page xxi note 1} The draft treaty, which was never concluded, is in S.P. For. Holland, 408, fo. 256. The covering letter of Chesterfield and Trevor to Tyrawly and Hyndford is in ibid. 409, fo. 22. They anticipate failure “from the mediation so hastily offered and so strongly pressed by your Court”.

^{page xxii note 1} Frederick sent full powers to Andrié on 19 February (Pol. Corr. iv. p. 56). For the suspicions excited by the English delay see ibid. pp. 81, 126, 152, 168, 203, 207–9, 214, 240.