CRESSETT, JAMES [SSNE 4423]

Surname

CRESSETT, CRESSET

First name

JAMES

Text source

James Cressett became a British representative to the House of Brunswick in Hannover on 28 August 1693. By 1698 he was agent to the Lower Saxon Circle while an authorisation for James Cressett as envoy to Denmark survives from 1699. He remained agent to the Lower Saxon Circle in September 1700 and based himself in Hamburg, though he also visited Brandenburg-Prussia (Berlin). He took diplomatic instruction from there to London also.

Hamburg Staatsarchiv, 177/2b 'Diplomatenlisten' I, p.43; Public Records Office, SP/104/2; Additional Manuscripts in the Sloane collection 28943 f 207; Letters, dated between January 1702 to June 1704 between him and William Greg [SSNE 7038], secretary for envoys also exist in Historical Manuscripts Commission 29: Portland I-X (II p.58-64) and to Robert Harley dated 11 January-13 June 1706 (IV pp.279, 291, 203, 311); L. Bittner and L. Gross, Reportorium der diplomatischen vertreter aller lander, vol. 1, 1648-1715 (Oldenburg and Berlin, 1936), pp.181, 184.

Service record

STUART KINGDOMS, BRUNSWICK-LUNEBURG

Departed 1694-03-31

Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY

STUART KINGDOMS, HAMBURG

Departed 1700-12-20

Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY

STUART KINGDOMS, DENMARK-NORWAY

Departed 1700-05-21

Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY

BRITISH KINGDOMS, BRANDENBURG-PRUSSIA, BRUNSWICK-LUNEBURG (Preussen), BRANDENBURG-PRUSSIA, BERLIN

Departed 1703-09-30

Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY