Authors: Richard Holmes
75
Boufflers to Louis 11 September 1709 in De Vault and Pelet IX p.44.
76
Marlborough to Godolphin 11 September 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1360.
77
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 13 September 1709 ibid. p.1364.
78
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 26 September 1709 ibid. pp.1377–8.
79
Marlborough to Heinsius 12 December 1709 OS in
Marlborough – Heinsius
pp.475–6.
80
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 2 and 5 June 1710 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III pp.1505, 1507.
81
Queen Anne to Marlborough 25 October 1709 in Gregg
Queen Anne
p.294.
82
M. de la R. Manley
Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of both sexes from the New Atlantis, an Island in the Mediterranean
Vol IV (London 1741) pp.30–2.
83
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 7 October 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1387.
84
London Gazette
15–17 November 1709.
85
Maynwaring to Duchess of Marlborough 18 November 1709 in Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
Private Correspondence
I p.270.
86
Watson
Marlborough’s Shadow
p.105.
87
Marlborough to Stepney 6 December 1706 in Murray
Dispatches
III p.245.
88
Cadogan to Marlborough 26 June 1710, Cadogan Papers.
89
A.J. Veenendaal ‘The opening phase of Marlborough’s campaign of 1708 in the Netherlands’ in
History
February 1950 p.45.
90
Cadogan to Brydges 28 April 1707 in Dickson
Cadogan
p.34.
91
Cadogan to Raby 7 July 1707 ibid. p.38.
92
Ibid. p.154.
93
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 24 June 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1283.
94
Philip Rambaut ‘A study in misplaced loyalty: Louis de Duffort-Duras, Earl of Feversham’ in M. Glozier and D. Onnekink (eds)
War, Religion and Service
(Aldershot 2007) p.57.
95
Trevelyan
The Peace and the Protestant Succession
p.37.
96
Rodger
Command
p.177.
97
Trevelyan
The Peace and the Protestant Succession
p.20.
98
Burnet
History
V p.454.
99
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 26 June 1710 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III pp.1530–1.
100
Marlborough to Godolphin 27 June 1710 and Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 29 June 1710 ibid. pp.1533, 1535.
101
Lever
Godolphin
p.241.
102
Maynwaring to Duchess of Marlborough September or October 1710 in Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
Private Correspondence
I p.395.
103
Lever
Godolphin
p.251.
104
Godolphin to Marlborough 8 August 1710 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1596.
105
Queen Anne to Marlborough 8 August 1710 in Gregg
Queen Anne
p.320.
106
Godolphin to Marlborough 9 August 1710 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III pp.1597–8.
107
Gregg
Queen Anne
p.323.
108
Godolphin to Marlborough 30 June 1710 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1552.
109
Marlborough to Villars 31 August 1710 in Murray
Dispatches
V p.122.
110
Marlborough to Godolphin 14 September 1711 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1679.
111
Marlborough to Heinsius 13 October 1710 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.527.
112
Marlborough to Pulteney and Marlborough to Hern 11 September 1710 in Murray
Dispatches
V p.136.
113
B. Cadogan to Marlborough 15 February 1711, Cadogan Papers. The tone of this barely legible letter suggests that it was written by the widow of a regimental colonel killed at Malplaquet, and its content, author’s name and present location suggest a Cadogan family connection. I have, however, been unable to discover the lady’s identity.
114
Cadogan to Raby 5 December 1707, Cadogan Papers.
115
Scouller
Armies of Queen Anne
p.75.
116
Marlborough to St John 16 July 1711 in Murray
Dispatches
V pp.412–13.
117
Marlborough to Sweet 20 December 1710 ibid. p.245.
118
Marlborough to Halifax 13 September 1710 ibid. p.139.
119
Marlborough to Bothmar 17 September 1710 ibid. p.143.
120
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 10 November 1710 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1654.
121
Lever
Godolphin
p.257.
122
Philip Roberts (ed.)
The Diary of Sir David Hamilton 1709–14
(Oxford 1975) pp.22–3.
123
Lever
Godolphin
pp.259, 261–2.
124
Hamilton Diary
p.25.
125
Burnet
History
VI p.33.
126
Ibid. p.34.
127
Hamilton Diary
p.27.
128
Burnet
History
VI p.33.
129
Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
Conduct
p.279.
130
Gregg
Queen Anne
p.329.
131
Marlborough to Godolphin 5 July 1710 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1543.
132
Colyear had joined his father’s regiment in Dutch service in 1675, and risen to command it: his English was now so rusty that Marlborough wrote to him in French.
133
Marlborough to Godolphin 9 November 1710 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1652.
134
Marlborough to Godolphin 27 October 1710 ibid. p.1648.
135
Marlborough to Raby 10 November 1710 in Murray
Dispatches
V p.218.
136
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 16 April 1711 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1662.
137
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 18 May 1711 ibid. pp.1666–7.
138
Burton
Captain-General
p.180.
139
Marlborough to Heinsius 11 June 1711 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.547.
140
Marlborough to Heinsius 25 June 1711 ibid. p.550.
141
Churchill
Marlborough
VI pp.410–11.
142
Ibid. p.418.
143
Kane
Memoirs
p.90.
144
Marlborough to Godolphin 27 July 1711 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1673.
145
William, Viscount Rialton to Marlborough 9 August 1711 in BL Add Mss 61368 f.41.
146
Kane
Memoirs
pp.91–2.
147
Marlborough to Godolphin 30 July 1711 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1674.
148
Chandler
Robert Parker
pp.100–1.
149
Ibid. pp.101–3.
150
Deane
Journal
p.133.
151
Marlborough to Heinsius 13 August 1711 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.558.
152
Chandler
Robert Parker
p.108.
153
Marlborough to Godolphin 14 September 1711 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1679.
154
Trevelyan
The Peace and the Protestant Succession
p.207.
155
Marlborough to Oxford 8 October 1711 in BL Add Mss 61125 f.129.
156
Churchill
Marlborough
VI p.483.
157
Cadogan to Marlborough 20 January 1712, Cadogan Papers.
158
Burton
Captain-General
p.188.
159
Marlborough to Albemarle 28 January 1712 in Murray
Dispatches
VI p.574.
160
Marlborough to Wheate 4 March 1712 ibid. p.579.
161
De Vault and Pelet XI p.463.
162
Chandler
Robert Parker
pp.119–20.
163
Bishop
Life and Adventures
p.235.
164
Kane
Memoirs
p.102.
165
Churchill
Marlborough
VI p.530.
166
Ibid. p.569.
167
Ibid. p.571.
168
Ibid. p.575.
169
Oxford to Maynwaring 31 October 1712 in Coxe
Memoirs
III p.325.
170
Churchill
Marlborough
VI p.575.
171
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 21 January 1713 ibid. pp.579–80.
172
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 5 February 1713 ibid. p.580.
173
Quoted in Frances Harris
A Passion for Government: The Life of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
(Oxford 1991) p.193.
174
Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
Letters … from the originals at Madresfield Court
(London 1875) pp.32–3.
175
HMC Bath I pp.37–8.
176
Coxe
Memoirs
III pp.341–3. For confirmation of the exchange see Cokayne et al.
The Complete Peerage
(13 vols, London 1910–59) VIII p.493.
177
Churchill
Marlborough
VI p.589.
178
Ibid. p.584.
179
Duke of Berwick to Marlborough 8 September 1703 in BL Add Mss 61270 f.1.
180
Sir Archibald Alison
Life of John, Duke of Marlborough
(2 vols, London 1852) II p.247.
181
Gregg
Queen Anne
p.375.
182
Marlborough to Maynwaring 9? June 1714 in Coxe
Memoirs
III pp.360–1.
183
Marlborough to Robethon 9 July 1714 in Macpherson
Original Papers
II p.632.
184
Churchill
Marlborough
VI p.623.
185
Cadogan to Marlborough 30 October 1715, Cadogan Papers.
186
Harris
Passion for Government
p.210.
187
William Matthews (ed.)
The Diary of Dudley Ryder 1715–1716
(London 1939) p.363.
188
Harris
Passion for Government
p.120.
189
Ibid. p.219. All three children of the marriage died in infancy, and Sunderland himself died in 1722.
190
Christopher Hibbert
The Marlboroughs
(London 2001) p.314.
191
Churchill
Marlborough
VI p.645.
192
Ibid. pp.646–7.
193
Hamilton to Marlborough 5 June 1718 in HMC Stuart VI p.534.
194
Hibbert
Marlboroughs
p.318.
195
Ibid. pp.319–20.
196
Ibid. pp.321–2. Sadly, the last quote seems apocryphal.
197
Ibid. p.325.
198
Iris Butler
Rule of Three
:
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and her Companions in Power
(London 1967) p.325.
199
Hibbert
Marlboroughs
pp.348–9.
200
Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
Letters at Madresfield Court
p.xviii.
201
Harris
Passion for Government
p.348.
202
V.G. Kiernan ‘George Macartney’ in
New Dictionary of National Biography
Vol. 35 p.25.
203
Ingoldsby to Marlborough 31 December 1706 in BL Add Mss 61157 ff.44–6.
204
Colonel Hugh Boscawen ‘Over the Hills and Far Away: Marlborough: Blenheim and Ramillies – A Reconnaissance’ in
British Army Review
No. 142 Summer 2007 p.81.
205
Chandler
Robert Parker
p.115.
206
Harris
Passion for Government
p.107.
207
Bevan
Marlborough
p.294.