Il8 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



"Bourbon, May 19, 1701. I have putt off writing 

 to you in hopes still every post to receive a Ire (letter) 

 from you, but i find what i thought impossible, that 

 you hate writting yet mor then I do, since you can 

 hold out long 61 " without writting to me than I can to 

 you, for without any manner of compliment i may tell 

 you that it has realy been uneasy to me to be so long 

 without hearing from you, and even without writting 



to you The king w d - have me putt you in mind 



of his memoires, but Mr. Inett (?) has assured us that 

 you are hard at worke about them, so that nowe wee 

 can only owe you thanks, begging you to go on till 

 you perfect the work. I hope you have kept y r - health 

 as well as i have kept mine, and that wee shall find 

 one another when we meet as well as when we parted, 

 and as good friends. Mor (more) of me you cannot 

 desire, for it is impossible to augment either the esteem 

 or the kyndnesse i have had for you ever since i knewe 

 you well. M.R." 



The two last letters of Queen Mary's that we shall 

 cite are dated from the Monastery of Chaillot, to 

 which Macaulay says she left the treasured whip or 

 " discipline " wherewith James had vigorously avenged 

 her wrongs on his own shoulders in penance for his 

 amours with Catharine Sedley* and Arabella Churchill. 

 The heart of James was left to this convent when he 

 died, 1 6th September, 1701, and afterwards, in the first 

 crush of her grief, Mary retired there. 



"Chaillot, May 19, 17 . (I have lost) the satis- 

 faction of seeing you, instead of w ch - I have willingly 

 putt myself to the trouble of writing, a thing you know 

 I am not fond of: but i find i can do it easyer to you 

 than to most people in the world," &c. 



" Chaillot, May 31, 17." (Page 29.) 



" My daughter and i are very well, and easyer in 

 this place (the convent) than in any, when wee know 



Macaulay, c. vi., p. 70. 



