^{page 89 note 1} He wrote of his “little rural corner ” (2 June 1761) : “His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, when I shewed him the plan of it once at Hanover, was pleased to call it Titley Hall, but it is in reality nothing more than a farm house a little handsomely fitted up, with a garden, entirely of my own contriving and planting, which is divided in the middle by the only river in this island and connected again by two bridges, each about ten yards long. Tis not only pleasant, but also very convenient for me, being not too far from town, upon the road to Friedensbourg, and but a quarter of a mile from Mo^r de Bernstorff. The worst is, it has a poor dirty village on the side of it.”

^{page 110 note 1} Iver Rosenkrantz.

^{page 111 note 1} Aleksyei Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the Russian envoy at Copenhagen in the time of George I and now again May 1735 to April 1740.

^{page 116 note 1} On the Coromandel Coast of India. A factory founded there by the newly-chartered Swedish East India Company in September 1733 had been immediately destroyed by English and French forces acting from Fort St. David and Pondicherri. The question of compensation had been argued ever since, with calmness until it suited the party now dominant in Sweden, the “Hats,” to render it acute

^{page 121 note 1} The queen's brother, Friedrich Ernst of Brandenburg-Culmbach.

^{page 123 note 1} The abbé Le Maire. Chavigny had left early in July of this year.

^{page 151 note 1} The death of Queen Louisa.

^{page 157 note 1} In the margin, July 23^rd, 30^th August, 10 Sept^r.

^{page 161 note 1} Namely, “when and where his Majesty shall think fit,” struck out.

^{page 163 note 1} Dated 1763, but endorsed, and filed, as of 1762, and, from the reference to Peter III, obviously of that year.