[1078] N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 220.
[1079] Rich, Bibl. Amer. (after 1700), p. 103; Leclerc, no. 691.
[1080] The articles of the treaty of Utrecht touching the American possessions of England are cited and commented upon in William Bollan’s Importance and Advantage of Cape Breton, etc. (London, 1746.) The diplomacy of the treaty of Utrecht can be followed in the Miscellaneous State Papers, 1501-1726, in two volumes, usually cited by the name of the editor, as the Hardwicke Papers. Cf. also Actes, mémoires et autres pièces authentiques concernant la paix d’Utrecht, depuis l’année 1706 jusqu’à présent. Utrecht, 1712-15, 6 vols. J. W. Gerard’s Peace of Utrecht, a historical review of the great treaty of 1713-14, and of the principal events of the war of the Spanish succession (New York, etc., 1885) has very little (p. 286) about the American aspects of the treaty.
[1081] N. Y. Col. Docs., ix. 878, 894, 913, 932, 981.
[1082] To Shirley was dedicated a tract by William Clarke, of Boston, Observations on the late and present conduct of the French, with regard to their encroachments upon the British colonies in North America; together with remarks on the importance of these colonies to Great Britain, Boston, 1755, which was reprinted in London the same year. Cf. Thomson’s Bibliog. of Ohio, nos. 234, 235; Hildeburn’s Century of Printing, no. 1,407; Catal. of works rel. to Franklin in Boston Pub. Lib., p. 13. The commissioners seem also to have used an account of Nova Scotia, written in 1743, which is printed in the Nova Scotia Hist. Coll., i. 105.
[1083] The correspondence of the Earl of Albemarle, the British minister at Paris, with the Newcastle administration, to heal the differences of the conflicting claims, is noted as among the Lansdowne MSS. in the Hist. MSS. Com. Report, iii. 141.
[1084] The three quarto volumes were found on board a French prize which was taken into New York, and from them the French claim was set forth in A memorial containing a summary view of facts with their authorities in answer to the Observations sent by the English ministry to the courts of Europe. Translated from the French. New York, 1757. The 2d volume of the original 4to ed. and the 3d volume of the 12mo edition contain the following treaties which are not in the London edition, later to be mentioned:—
1629, Apr. 24, between Louis XIII. and Charles I., at Suze.
1632, Mar. 29, between Louis XIII. and Charles I., at Saint Germain-en-Laye.
1655, Nov. 3, between France and England, at Westminster.