Il6 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



Perth, a staunch Jacobite) of the contents of it 



You will have heard of the Queen's having had the 

 colick these three or fower days last past, w**- con- 

 tinues still upon her, w ch - makes me send for S r - Will: 

 Waldegrave,* he knowing her constitution, w ch - those 



of his profession do not You need not be 



alarmed at my sending for S r - Will : for i hope by 

 that tyme he can gett hether (hither] she will be quite 

 well. J. R. 8^- 17,196." 



The next letter of James' shows that though he was 

 blamed for cowardice in a precipitate flight after the 

 battle of the Boyne (1690), he had considerable stout- 

 ness of heart when he too suffered at the same place, 

 Fontainebleau, at the turn of the leaf two years later, 

 1698 : 



"Oct. 15, 1698, Font. I left my will with S r - R. 

 Nagle.f I had in the night a little heat and unequal- 

 ness in my puls w*- did not hinder my sleeping ; all 

 Mon. Faggon (Louis' physician) ordered me was to* 

 drinke some The (Tea) and ly some tyme in my bed, 

 w**- I did till ten in the morning ; dined with the king 

 (Louis XIV.), and have not found further incon- 

 venience, only did not go out with the Cueene to the 

 salut at the Lodg, it being somwhat cold ; hoping in 

 God to heare no more of this little distemper, and to 

 be able to go a hunting to-morrow," &c., &c. 



The king hunted "3 days togeather," 2ist Sep., 

 1699, at Fontainebleau : so the exiles evidently paid 

 the French king a yearly visit in the autumn. Appa- 

 rently about the same date as the last is the following 

 letter of Queen Mary about their prospects with Louis. 

 " This king has been but once in privat with us, and i 

 find that he thinks the P. of Orange (William III., 



Henrietta, natural daughter of James, by Arabella Churchill, 

 and sister of Duke of Berwick, married Sir Henry Waldegrave, 

 created Lord Waldegrave. 



t Sir R. Nagle advised James to leave Ireland after the 

 Boyne. 



