Folio 40v. To Blathwayt. The elector has returned from Freiberg where, immediately...

Folio 40v. To Blathwayt. The elector has returned from Freiberg where, immediately after his brother's funeral, he was homaged by the armed forces available, who took the oath of allegiance together with the burghers of the town and the mineworkers employed in the vicinity. He has gone to the fortress of Königstein on the Elbe for a day and will to-morrow receive the homage of the gentry and citizens of Dresden. Rumours of the disappearance of count [Philipp Christoph] Königsmarck have reached Dresden: one of his servants is said to have come from Hanover to tell the elector that his master, lately made a major-general in the Saxon army, has been missing since June 30. Continues: 'If it be true that the count is not to be found 'tis an even lay that they have used him little better than Esq. Thinn & perhaps a great lady likewise (with whom he is suspected to have been familiar) may have been cause of his misfortune. The electoral prince of Hanover [George I Ludwig, later elector and King of England] is at Berlin, 'acting comedyes and making merry with his sister, the electrice [of Brandenburg]'.- Has 'this day' given assignations on the Bankers at Leipzig for the 66,666 rixdollars 16 groats. Encloses copy of Bose's acquittance ['Acquaintance', Ms]. Will keep the original and send it with the ratification, or bring it with him if he will be allowed 'to make a stopp to Flanders'.

Date and Place: 1694 July 10/20 Dresden