text:  So fully had he now regained the confidence of William that he was three times named one of the nine lords justiciars to whom the administration of affairs in Great Britain was subsequently entrusted during the temporary absence of William in Holland; and the War of the Succession having become certain in the year 1700 that monarch who was preparing to take an active part in it appointed Marlborough on 1st June 1701 his ambassador-extraordinary at the Hague and commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in Flanders