[359] The title King of Prussia appeared preferable to the more natural King of Brandenburg, because Prussia lay wholly without the empire, and consequently its king was not in any sense subject to the emperor but was wholly independent. Since western Prussia still belonged to Poland in 1701 the new king satisfied himself at first with the title, King in Prussia.
[360] Reference, Schwill, Modern Europe, pp. 230–238.
[361] Reference, Schwill, Modern Europe, pp. 238–247.
[362] Reference, Hassall, The Balance of Power, pp. 18, 19, 303–317. See map below, p. 584.
[363] The last instance in which an English ruler vetoed a measure passed by Parliament was in 1707.
[364] See above, pp. [278–280].
[365] Originally there had been but seven electors (see above, p. 372), but the duke of Bavaria had been made an elector during the Thirty Years' War, and in 1692 the father of George I had been permitted to assume the title of Elector of Hanover.
[366] Wolsey, it will be remembered, had advanced the same reason in Henry VIII's time for England's intervention in continental wars. See above, p. [428].
[367] Except in 1718–1720, when she joined an alliance against Spain, and her admiral, Byng, destroyed the Spanish fleet.