^{page 29 note 1} Now Cambridge University Library, Additional MS. 7093.

^{page 29 note 2} Biographical information on Lord Walden and other members of this parliament has been gleaned from a variety of sources. Among the secondary authorities consulted I found most useful Cunnington, Elizabeth, The General Election of 1705 (unpublished M.A. thesis, London, 1938), AppendixGoogle Scholar; and Walcott, R., English Politics in the early Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1956)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For evidence of individual political affiliations see my article ‘The Choice of a Speaker in 1705’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (1964), xxxvii, 20–46.Google Scholar

^{page 30 note 1} Commons Journals (hereafter CJ), xv, 37–9, 48–9, 54–6, 60–1, 72–4, 91–7, 104–5, 135–7, 171, 178–9.Google Scholar

^{page 30 note 2} Luttrell's unpublished diary is in the Codrington Library, All Souls, Oxford; Grey's was published anonymously in 1763; Knatchbull's was edited for the Royal Historical Society by Newman, A. N., ante (1963), vol. xcivGoogle Scholar. Diaries of proceedings in the Commons are particularly scarce for Anne's reign. Apart from the one here published I know of only two fragments: Sir Arthur Kay's memorandum of the sessions of 1710–11 and 1711–12, William Salt Library, Stafford, Dartmouth MSS. 1788; and Sir Edward Knatchbulld's diary for 1714, edited by Newman, A. N., Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (1961), xxxiv, 211–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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^{page 30 note 4} A few clarifications of the text have been inserted in square brackets.

^{page 31 note 1} CJ, xv, 52.Google Scholar

^{page 31 note 2} Blenheim Palace MSS. A1-26: James Brydges to Marlborough, 4 Dec. 1705. I am grateful to his Grace the duke of Marlborough for permitting me to use his papers.

^{page 32 note 1} Blenheim Palace MSS. A1-25: Harley to Marlborough, 4 Dec. 1705.

^{page 33 note 1} CJ, xv, 58; B[ritish] M[useum]. Add. MSS. 17677AAA, fos. 578 9: L'Hermitage to the States General, 11 Dec. 1705. According to L'Hermitage the debate went on until 8 or 9 at night, so clearly only a fraction of the proceedings were entered in the diary.Google Scholar

^{page 33 note 2} CJ, xv, 51, 56.Google Scholar

^{page 33 note 3} Ibid., p. 70; B.M. Add. MSS. 17677BBB, fo. 28: L'Hermitage to the States General, 21 Dec. 1705.

^{page 33 note 4} CJ, xv, 70.Google Scholar

^{page 34 note 1} CJ, xv, 70.Google Scholar

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^{page 35 note 2} CJ, xv, 82, 85, 89.Google Scholar

^{page 35 note 3} Statutes of the Realm (1963), viii, 499.Google Scholar

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^{page 36 note 1} CJ, xv, 85Google Scholar; B.M. Add. MSS. 17677BBB, fos. 49–50: L'Hermitage to the States General, 15 Jan. 1706.

^{page 36 note 2} B.M. Add. MSS. 17677BBB, fo. 52: L'Hermitage to the States General, 18 Jan. 1706.

^{page 36 note 3} Ibid., fo. 57: L'Hermitage to the States General, 22 Jan. 1706.

^{page 36 note 4} Statutes of the Realm (1963), viii, 500.Google Scholar

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^{page 37 note 2} British Museum Loan 29/9/26: ‘23 January 1705/6’.

^{page 37 note 3} Statutes of the Realm (1963), viii, 503Google Scholar; for a definitive discussion of the manœuvres over the ‘Whimsical clause’ see Holmes, G. S., ‘The Attack on the “Influence of the Crown”, 1702–1716’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (1966), xxxix, 53–9.Google Scholar