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The Advent of the Great Elector
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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The present paper contains a slight contribution from unpublished English State Papers to our knowledge of the history and policy of Brandenburg during the first years of the rule of Frederick William the Great Elector: that is, from December 1640 to about the year 1643. The great English historians of the time, Lord Clarendon and Dr. Gardiner, have told us but little of the distant and distracted German March, and our State Papers deepen the impression that in 1640 Brandenburg lay just beyond the horizon of English politics.
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Page 154 note 1 Thus in 1643 Curtius, whose salary was three years in arrear, was still assisting in the negotiations for the payment by Charles of one million rix-dollars on their behalf. In January 1649, his son sent Buckingham from his court in Jersey to assist them by diplomacy.
Page 156 note 1 To the kindness of the Master of Peterhouse I owe (as well as several valuable suggestions) the following notice of Mr. Avery, communicated by the archivist of the Hamburg Senate: ‘Joseph Averie erscheint bis 1612 als Secretair des englischen Court in Stade, und sodann in gleicher Eigenschaft in Hamburg im J. 1618; als englischer Resident erscheint er wieder im J. 1633; und er wird wieder als englischer Resident und Court-Master von 1638 bis 1645 genannt.’ To the ‘Winter King’ and his son he is ‘très-honnête homme’—‘honest Mr. Avery.’ Bromley's Original Royal Letters, pp. 36, 154.
Page 160 note 1 State Papers, Foreign, German States.
Page 164 note 1 State Papers. Foreign, German States.
Page 164 note 2 Writing from Hamburg on April 30 [old style] Avery reports that ‘his despatch touching the secret business is scarcely worth the perusal, seeing that that affair was dashed at his first coming by the advice and direction of the old Electress Palatine Dowager, whose order therein he was wholly to follow.’ Cal. S.P,, Domestic, 1641–43.