[42] Marlborough to Marshal Villars, 13th September 1709, and to Mr Secretary Boyle, 16th September 1709; Disp. v. 596, 599.—Coxe, v. 64.
[43] Marlborough to Mr Secretary Boyle, October 21, 1709. Disp. v. 617, 621.
[44] "Be assured that Mrs Masham and Mr Harley will, underhand, do every thing that can make the business uneasy, particularly to you the Lord Treasurer, and me, for they know well that if we were removed every thing would be in their power. This is what they labour for, believing it would make them both great and happy; but I am very well persuaded it would be their destruction." Marlborough to Godolphin, Nov. 1, 1709; Coxe, v. 105.
[45] Coxe, v. 105, 111.
[46] Coxe, v. 115, 116.
[47] Swift, Mem. on Queen's Change of Ministry in 1710, p. 37. Coxe, v. 117-118.
[48] Coxe, v. 124, 133.
[49] Duchess of Marlborough to Maynwaring, January 18, 1710. Coxe, v. 134
[50] Marlborough to Queen Anne, January 19, 1710.
[51] "On Wednesday sennight I waited upon the Queen, in order to represent the mischief of such recommendations in the army, and before I came away I expressed all the concern for her change to me, that is natural to a man that has served her so faithfully for many years, which made no impression, nor was her Majesty pleased to take so much notice of me as to ask my Lord Treasurer where I was upon her missing me at Council. I have had several letters from him since I came here, and I cannot find that her Majesty has ever thought me worth naming; when my Lord Treasurer once endeavoured to show her the mischief that would happen, she made him no answer but a bow." Marlborough to Lord Somers, January 21, 1710.