[121] De Flaux: "Du Danemark."
[122] On this subject, the "Mémoires de Falckenskjold" and De Flaux's "Du Danemark" may be consulted with advantage.
[123] This and the subsequent royal decrees will be found in full in Höst's "Struensee's Ministerium," vol. iii.
[124] Colonel Keith writes home: "An abominable riding-habit, with a black slouched hat, has been almost universally introduced here, which gives every woman the air of an awkward postilion. In all the time I have been in Denmark I never saw the queen out in any other garb."
[125] De Flaux: "Du Danemark."
[126] "Memoirs of Sir R. M. Keith," vol. i. p. 199.
[127] "Coxe's Travels," vol. v. Not a trace of Hirschholm now exists. It was pulled down by order of Frederick VI., and not a stone was left on the other.
[128] Reverdil.
[129] "Authentische Aufklärungen," p. 59.
[130] A branch of the Danneskjold family, so called from a large iron foundry belonging to it, the only county in Norway. In Denmark the family had also large estates in the island of Langeland.