Possible Clues:

• Banish emissary following note
• Consign to less important place - maybe a soccer team
• Demote soldiers in front of emissary
• Send down to doctor a tree gale-damaged in it
• Send down about one limb and consumed it
• Demote Queen's English ambassador
• Put it down to having eaten a whole limb or thereabouts
• Seems about whole haunch one had as a matter of course, enough to get you down
• Put down, for example, in report
• Lower rank's lament to be not finishing in charge