OF

JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH;

WITH HIS

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE:

COLLECTED

FROM THE FAMILY RECORDS AT BLENHEIM,

AND

OTHER AUTHENTIC SOURCES.

ILLUSTRATED

WITH PORTRAITS, MAPS, AND MILITARY PLANS.

BY WILLIAM COXE, M.A. F.R.S. F.S.A.

ARCHDEACON OF WILTS.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1818.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München

Printed by T. C. HANSARD, Peterborough-court,
Fleet-street, London.

I

HAVE now the satisfaction of submitting to the Public the Second Volume of the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough. The Preface to the first part will exempt me from the necessity of troubling the reader with any farther observation on the general plan of the Work. I have, however, to solicit indulgence for a few orthographical inadvertencies, in regard to local Amidst the discordance of the english, french, german, dutch, and flemish writers and geographers, it is scarcely practicable to preserve, on all occasions, a perfect uniformity in the mode of spelling, and still more difficult to establish the same degree of uniformity, in maps and plans, which pass through different hands, and on many occasions do not admit of correction.

names.

Conceiving that it would be gratifying to the reader to trace the features of the hero of Blenheim, at different periods of his life, I