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William IV of Orange and his English Marriage1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

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I Am going to talk to you about a period of Dutch history which is very little known in England, and as in the eighteenth century Holland had hardly any contribution of her own to make to European history, it is not likely ever to become very popular. Yet, apart from the fact that even a process of decay may be an interesting object of study, it took statesmen both in Holland and outside a considerable time to realise that the great days of the Republic were over for good. Their finding out was a matter of importance from the point of view of the European, and particularly of the English, historian, and this will properly be the subject of my paper.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 8 , December 1925 , pp. 14 - 37
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1925

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page 15 note 1 H. Walpole to T. Robinson, May 25, 1734, F. St. P., Holland, P.R.O.; Paul Mantoux,, Notes sur les comptes-rendus des séances du parlement anglais au XVIIIe s. conservés aux A. A. E., p. 84. Coxe, Pelham Administration, I, p. 115, etc.

page 18 note 1 Jorissen, , Lord Chesterfield en de Republiek der Vereenigde Nederlanden (1885), p. 24Google Scholar.

page 19 note 1 E. Finch to Lord Harrington, May 26, 1733, F. St. P., Holland, P.R.O

page 19 note 2 Memoirs.

page 20 note 1 Hist. MSS. Comtn., XlVth Report, App., part IX, p. i.

page 21 note 1 May 3 O.S., St. P. F., Holland, P.R.O.

page 21 note 2 Bydragen en Mededeelingen van het Historisch Genootschap te Utrecht, LIV (1924), p. 89 ff.

page 23 note 1 Bydyagen en Mededeelingen van het Historisch Genootschap te Utrecht, LIV (1924), p. 126.

page 25 note 1 Add. 22,526 (Cartaret Papers), Br. Mus. Part of Bentinck's own papers is preserved in the Br. Mus., Egerton 1711 ff. The other part is in the Queen's Archives at the Hague, and now mostly published in the Archives de la Maison d'Orange-Nassau, IVe série.

page 26 note 1 Dutch Faith …. London, 1745, p. 8. On Chesterfield's mission to the Hague, see my article England and Holland during the War of the Austrian Succession in History, April 1925.

page 27 note 1 Buys, the Secretary of the States of Holland, said so to Sandwich: Sandwich to Newcastle, Aug. 30, 1746; Add. 32,808 (Newcastle Papers), Br. Mus.

page 27 note 2 See e.g. Walpole, H., Letters, I, p. 370 (July 1, 1745)Google Scholar, and Fielding's phrase ‘a Dutch defence’ in Tom Jones (1748), Everyman edition, II, p. 6.

page 27 note 3 See e.g. Hist. MSS. Comm. XIV, IX, p. 142.

page 29 note 1 See e.g. Hist. MSS. Comm. XIV, IX, p. 150.

page 31 note 1 Chesterfield to Sandwich, April n, 1747 (O.S.), F. St. P., Holland, P.R.O.

page 31 note 2 Sandwich in Newcastle Papers, Br. Mus., Captain's Letters No. 2014. Admiralty Papers, P.R.O.

page 34 note 1 William IV to Chesterfield, July 12, 1747, in D'Ailly, Wittem Bentinck van Rhoon, App. VI.

page 34 note 2 His letters to William IV in A rchives de la Maison d'Orange-Nassau, IVth series (ed. by Bussemaker), Vol. IV.

page 34 note 2 Letters (ed. Mahon), III, p. 223.

page 35 note 1 See e.g. Pelham in Coxe, Pelham Administration, I, p. 271.

page 35 note 2 See Pribram, , Oesterreichische Staatsverträge, England, IGoogle Scholar.

page 36 note 1 His letters in Coxe, , Pelham Administration, IGoogle Scholar.

page 36 note 2 Archives de la Maison d'Orange-Nassau, IV, I, p. 152.

page 36 note 3 To Sandwich, March 18 (O.S.), 1748, Newcastle Papers, Br. Mus.