To the

Most Serene and Most Powerful Prince and Lord,

Lord

Frederick Augustus,

King of Poland,

Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, original: "Reussen"; refers to the territories of Red Ruthenia within the Polish Crown. Prussia, Masovia, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlachia, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia, and Chernigov; Duke of Saxony, Jülich, Cleves, and Berg, also of Angria and Westphalia; Arch-Marshal and Elector Elector: One of the high-ranking princes of the Holy Roman Empire who had the right to elect the Emperor. of the Holy Roman Empire; Landgrave of Thuringia; Margrave of Meissen, as well as Upper and Lower Lusatia; Burgrave of Magdeburg; Princely Count of Henneberg; Count of Mark, Ravensberg, and Barby; Lord of Ravenstein,

and so forth, and so forth, and so forth.

To my most gracious King and Lord.

This elaborate list of titles, known as the "Grand Titulature," was a legal and social necessity in the 1700s. It served to acknowledge every territory—no matter how small—over which the ruler claimed sovereignty, reinforcing his status and the author's seeking of royal patronage.