British legations

Britain's diplomatic missions at foreign courts, which negotiate the aerial articles governing passage over foreign ground and treat foreign objections (burial grounds, palaces, shrines) with care.

The realm's missions accredited to foreign sovereigns, concerned with treaties and the realm's standing, usually in capitals with no British trade and perhaps four men strong.

Named with it

• Legation Secretary Miles Ardwyn · secretary, eastern legation
• Treaty Secretary Augusta Lindisfarne

Ties

• works alongside the British consular service
• distinct from the consulates
• resents the residents

At the table

In 4588 a crowd forced a British legation gate in a lesser Red port (Rougemere); six people inside died. The service keeps the expression 'Rougemere hour' for the point at which a legation begins destroying correspondence. Treaty secretaries now ask what lies beneath a proposed course before publishing it. The eastern legation has had to explain the examination-based ministries to visiting peers. Legations hire companies for occasions (signings, visits, ceremonies) under the strictest articles in the outer trade. They resent residents.