Jiří KUBEŠ Imperial Diplomats in England during the Reign of Charles II and James II Ladies and gentlemen, summarizing the present state of research one must confess we do not have very sufficient and modern results. ❷ The basic data were published 140 years ago in the monumental work dealing with the fall of the house of Stuarts by Onno Klopp who was followed by Alfred Francis Přibram at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries. Přibram dealt with the Austrian-English relaons systemacally and published the first synthesis of the topic from the view of the internaonal relaons. However, we do sll miss a modern trease on the topic that would take into consideraon the changes in the research of diplomacy in the last forty years. There is only one new arcle on the acvies of Imperial envoy Count Waldstein by Jiří Hrbek. However, looking at the table with the list of Imperial diplomats in England ❸ during the reign of Charles II and James II, we can easily find out where „the lions are“. We do not know anything about the legacies from 1660s, we know lile not only about the legacy secretaries Nawitz and Hofmann but also about the long mission of Count Thun. ❹ It is a lile bit surprising because the resource situaon is quite favourable. There is a big group of diplomac correspondence kept in Vienna. F. e. the five-year-lasng legacy of Count Thun is documented by more than 230 reports, Count Kaunitz wrote more than 60 reports within eight months in 1687. In Vienna, we can also find basic informaon about the cost of these diplomac journeys. There is also possibility to complete the research with the data from Family Archives of the Waldsteins in Prague, the Thuns in Děčín and the Kaunitzes in Brno.