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Cadogan, William, Earl of. A COLLECTION OF 28 LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY, JACOBITISM, AND THE WAR OF THE QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE comprising: eight autograph letters by the 2nd Earl Stair as Ambassador at Paris, with news of court politics ("... his [i.e. the Regent Philippe d'Orléans's] court is at present divided and subdivided into so many different cabals, that it is difficult to make any judgment of the parts the severall ministers will play..."), treaties with Russia and Prussia, the ongoing Great Northern War, Spanish moves in Italy, and with intelligence of Jacobite activity and the Duke of Ormond, including attempts to gain Swedish support for the Jacobites, with later letters discussing Sicily, Sardinia, and the finance minister John Law, together with two copy letters by Stair, 29 September 1717 to 14 June 1720; three letters signed by Eugene of Savoy, one concerning the disposition of troops under Count Vehlen during the War of the Quadruple Alliance, 22 June 1715 to 1 April 1719; three letters signed by Lord Galway, asking for financial support on behalf of individual soldiers, 3 February-17 April 1719; letters by Anthony Compton (on the Jacobite Rebellion, 3 pages, 23 January 1716), George Macartney, Lord March ("...Mississippi goes very ill, but our family keeps up their spirits pretty well..."), Lord Sunderland, Lord Torphichen, the Duke of Parma (discussing the terms of the Treaty of the Hague), and two others, together with two copy letters from Stockholm at the outbreak of the War of the Quadruple Alliance; an autograph letter signed by William Cadogan, to his mother, and a draft letter by Cadogan, in French, about the Spanish desire to discuss the return of Gibraltar, and one other document, 16 April 1715-23 December 1720; in total 80 pages, English, French, Dutch, and Italian, chiefly folio and 4to, 1715-1720, some items docketed, each item in a paper folder, dust-staining, nicks and tears, a few items affected by damp