The Methuens and Portugal 1691–1708 (Paperback)

1. John Methuen and his antecedents; 2. Portugal at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 3. John Methuen's first mission to Lisbon, 1691?6; 4. Paul Methuen, minister at Lisbon, 1697?1702; 5. John Methuen detaches Portugal from her French alliance, May?August 1702; 6. Portugal hesitates to commit herself further; 7. Portugal joins the Grand Alliance, January?May 1703; 8. John Methuen's commercial treaty of December 1703 and its background, 1670?1715; 9. Preparations for a Peninsular War, June 1703?May 1704; 10. The failure of the campaigns in Portugal in 1704; 11. Operations in 1705 and the part played by the Navy; 12. The Capture of Madrid in 1706 and the death of Methuen; 13. Assessment of the Methuens and of the Methuen treaties; 14. Paul Methuen, ambassador at Lisbon and Portugal's recession from the war, December 1706?July 1708; 15. Epilogue.