Folio 28. To Shrewsbury. The quarrel between Löbell and Friesen is as yet unsettled...

Folio 28. To Shrewsbury. The quarrel between Löbell and Friesen is as yet unsettled but has been referred by the elector to three commissioners for investigation and report: Lt-gen [Kuno Christoph] Birckholtz, [Augustus Ferdinand von] Pflug[k], grand-marshal, and [Christian Augustus von] Haxthausen, great chamberlain. Of these, the first is 'a sort of profest enemy' of Friesen's, the second 'none of his friends'. [Anton Wulff von] Haxthausen, the Danish diplomat, has arrived on June 6/26, and he and Stepney have exchanged visits. Officially, he has come to make the compliment of condolence, but, encouraged by the elector, he may well attempt to associate his crown with the Swedish mediation, now accepted by the Emperor and probably not rejected by the States. He will stay about a month, then go to Berlin. He, Stepney, has seen a letter from [Eberhard von] Danckelmann, chief minister at Berlin, to the effect that the dispute with Sweden about the town of Gollnau [Pomerania - now Poland] has, in negotiations with count Nils Bielke, been 'entirely adjusted' it had interrupted 'correspondence' for three years [The words 'three years' corrected from 'some time', MS]. Surmises that Haxthausen will have no difficulties at Berlin to make the elector of Brandenburg accept [co-]mediation. The elector and electoress of Saxony have left Moritzburg and taken up residence at Dresden. The burial of the late elector has been fixed for July 5/15 after which the elector will go on a three weeks' 'progress' throughout his dominions to receive homage and thereafter visit the university of Halle. Praises Stratford for his 'great readiness and zeal' in the King's service by remitting the first term of the English subsidies (see f.27, ante) which the Saxons will demand in a day or two. Asks recipient to move the lords of the Treasury to be punctual in reimbursing Stratford.

Date and Place: 1694 June 19/29 Dresden