HISTORY OF HARTING. 1 1/ 



James's nephew and supplanter) is not well, lie is as 

 civill and kynd to us, as he uses to be, and wee as modest 

 and silent as to anything of business." (This is after the 

 Peace of Ryswick, when Louis XIV. finally yielded up 

 the cause of James II. as hopeless.) The Grand Mo- 

 narque had welcomed his unfortunate cousin, James II., 

 at St. Germains nobly. In taking leave of his guests 

 he said : " Voici votre maison ; qu'and j'y viendrai vous 

 m'enferez les honneurs, et je vous les ferai, quand vous 

 viendrez a Versailles" " As a king and politician Louis 

 XIV. is liable to grave criticism. As a gentleman be- 

 friending a forlorn relation he is without reproach." 

 Louis gave James a sum equal to .24,000 at once on 

 his landing, and allowed him 50,000 francs a month. 

 (Col. Townshend Wilson's James II.) "Now I will 

 only assure you that as long as i live i shall have a 

 real esteem and sincere friendship for you, as indeed i 

 owe you upon a thousand accounts. M.R." 



" Bourbon,* Ap. 19, 1701. i thank God the king 

 grows better everyday then other, his goutte is quitt 



gon if the waters do but never so little good, 



he must go back quitt well there is few of the 



whole traine that have kept so well as myself." (She 

 was much younger than James, and, as we have 

 observed, a second wife.) " It has cost poor Berkenhead 

 very dear, or to say beter (better) he has purchased 

 heaven very cheap, for i hope in God's mercy he will 

 have it, being dead with all the sentiments of a true 

 Christian and a good Catholick, &c. She must write 

 to Madame de Maintenon (Louis's creature) as usual." 



Here is another letter from Queen Mary of Modena 

 full of kind feeling for John Lord Caryll. It is further 

 interesting as showing that the Secretary kept up his 

 literary pursuits, and had in hand the private life or 

 memoir of James II., afterwards published by James 

 himself. 



After his Good Friday faint in chapel (1701) Dr. Fagon sent 

 James to drink the waters of Bourbon de 1'Archimbault. 



