^{page 4 note 1} Of Aix-la-Chapelle.

^{page 6 note 1} Saxe and Lowendahl.

^{page 9 note 1} From here in cypher.

^{page 10 note 1} Beaubassin, at the head of the Bay of Fundy.

^{page 19 note 1} B.M., Add. 32830, fo. 232 v. (Newcastle to Albemarle, Newcastle House, 4 October 1751 (very private) [holog.].) “…‥ I think (and so do most people here) that it will be the most popular and the most glorious work for this nation that has been concluded these many years, a defensive alliance, Quadruple alliance between England, Spain, the H. of Austria and the King of Sardinia, and that in a measure arising from Spain itself, is what has never happened before in this century, and differs much from our joint measures twenty years ago with France and Spain, both in their appearance and their consequences.…‥”

^{page 20 note 1} Signed September 13, N.S., 1751 at Dresden. (For the circumstances in which this treaty was signed see D. B. Horn, Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and European Diplomacy, Chap. V.)

^{page 20 note 2} Minister at the Court of Bavaria. He was ordered (B.M., Add. 32832, fo. 193, Newcastle to Burrish, Whitehall, 10 December 1752) to prevent any agreement between the three Wittelsbach Electors whereby the Elector of Bavaria would be detached from his engagements to Great Britain.

^{page 22 note 1} 22 March, O.S.

^{page 24 note 1} The proposed election of a King of the Romans.

^{page 24 note 2} See Holdemesse's letter of 26 March.

^{page 24 note 3} Appointed to be French resident at Hanover during George II's residence there.

^{page 26 note 1} viz. for (1) the restitution of Pleistein and the cession of Falkenstein and Ortenau, (2) a sufficient indemnity, (3) the privilege de nan appellando, and (4) £50,000 from England and 500,000 florins from Holland. St. Contest considered the money demands exorbitant, but the others to be not worth quarrelling about (see P.R.O., S.P. 78, no. 244, ff. 68–71. Albemarle to Newcastle, Paris, May 13/24, 1752).

^{page 32 note 1} The Court of Vienna would agree to pay in addition to the 500,000 fl. already agreed, another 100,000 fl. to grant Pleistein to the Elector Palatine and the House of Zweibrücken in the same manner as held by the late Elector Palatine, but no promises would be made about territorial superiority ; to grant the privilegium de non appellando as illimitatum for the Palatine House ; as for the House of Zweibrücken it would depend upon complaisant behaviour; for Ortenau or an equivalent Vienna would offer the expectative of Wildenau ; the consent of France not to be necessary to this treaty nor unanimity among the Electors (ibid., ff. 315 and 316).

^{page 33 note 1} The Palatine Elector having now demanded the payment of 1,200,000 florins in ready money ; the fief of Pleistein and those annexed to Sulzbach and Neuburg with Jülich and Berg, to be all entailed on himself and his heirs male and after them to the House of Zweibrücken, with expectatives on Wildenau and Plosberg, the Court of Vienna demurred as to certain modes of tenure with regard to the Sulzbach-Neuburg duchies and other small points.

^{page 34 note 1} Cf. Albemarle to Holdernesse, Paris, 31 January, 1753. “I was extremely happy …‥ that His Majesty has been pleased to approve my conduct in omitting the hints contained in that letter which might have been taken as reproaches by this Ministry ” (P.R.O., S.P. 78, no. 246, fo. 106).

^{page 40 note 1} Monzone, Minister of the Duke of Modena.

^{page 46 note 1} The disgrace of Ensenada for sending, behind the back of the King of Spain, instructions to the Viceroys in America for hostile action against the British (see Sir R. Lodge, Private Correspondence of Sir Benjamin Keene, p. 38).