^{page 23 note 1} The reference is to negotiation for a new treaty for troops, similar to that concluded on 15 March 1703 with Christian August, administrator of Holstein-Gottorp (Record Office, Treaties 41).

^{page 24 note 1} Poussin had had charge of French affairs in England for a few months in 1701. In September 1702 he came to Copenhagen as secretary, on the withdrawal of the Comte de Chamilly ; Vernon then called him “the famous Mons Poussin,” alluding to his intrigues. From 1714 he was active at Hamburg as French envoy to the Circle of Lower Saxony and the Hanse-Towns.

^{page 24 note 2} The Alt-Ranstädt convention of 1 September 1707.

^{page 30 note 1} Baron Henrik Frederik Söhlenthal, afterwards envoy extraordinary to England 1713 to 1731 and 1737 to 1750. His present mission resulted in the conclusion of a defensive alliance between Hanover and Denmark, independently of the northern war, on 14 July 1710.

^{page 35 note 1} The former Secretary of State, now a Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

^{page 35 note 2} Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; an authority on naval law.

^{page 43 note 1} A boat from Hamburg, passing the Danish royal yacht at night, had been fired upon, after disregarding repeated summons to stop, and the man. mentioned killed.