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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
Robert jackson is one of the multitude of men whom long and faithful service has left unknown to fame. As commissary at Stockholm during Robinson's absence, and even as minister resident after that envoy's recall, he had little to do with political affairs; for Charles XII, even when in exile, kept the direction of them in his own hands. There was rupture of diplomatic relations in the years 1717 and 1718, and after the death of Charles Great Britain was again represented at Stockholm by envoys. Jackson's special concern was with matters of trade, in which he was an expert. He stayed at Stockholm as minister resident until recalled in 1729.
page 39 note 1 The duke of Marlborough wrote: “You know the king of Sweden will admit of no foreign minister to attend him in to the field, but as a particular mark of respect for the Queen the ministers are willing to connive at Mr Jeffries, Mr Robinson's secretary, making the campaign as a, volunteer, whereby H.M. may be truly informed of what passes” (Dispatches, III. 359).Google Scholar
page 40 note 1 Strangely, he was still accredited to Charles XII at Bender or in the Ottoman dominions, although Charles had been at Stralsund since November 1714.
page 46 note 1 Lord Townshend.
page 50 note 1 Baron Henrik Gustaf von Mullern, minister with Charles XII at Bender.
page 51 note 1 Count Karl Gyllenborg, Swedish minister in England 1710 to 1717.
page 54 note 1 The reference is to the fighting on the Pruth. The Russian “victory” was not in the field, where they were hopelessly defeated, but in the terms of the peace, 1/12 August 1711.
page 58 note 1 Count Mauritz Vellingk, governor of Bremen, in later times the bitterest adversary of Great Britain in Sweden.
page 59 note 1 Ivar Rosenkrantz, envoy extraordinary to Queen Anne 1702–5 and 1709–14.
page 60 note 1 Daniel Pulteney, envoy extraordinary to Denmark, 1706 to 1715.
page 60 note 2 James Scott, envoy extraordinary to the king of Poland, 1711 to 1715.
page 60 note 3 Louis, due d'Aumont, envoy extraordinary from Louis XIV. 1712–13.
page 62 note 1 For the conditions and failure of the treaty of 22 June N.S 1713 for the sequestration of Stettin and Wismar during the war see briefly Chance, George I and the Northern War, pp. 36 f.Google Scholar
page 64 note 1 Dr. John Robinson.