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.