[13] Hist. MSS. Commission, x. i. Appendix, p. 452.

[14] The Earl’s letter is in Browne, ii. 448, from the Stuart Papers.

[15] The Rev. George Kelly was a constraint on the old Duke’s amours with Madame de Vaucluse!

[16] Papers from French Foreign Office. In Murray of Broughton’s Memorials, pp. 499-501.

[17] Charles to James, May 11, 1744. Stuart Papers in Murray of Broughton’s Memorials, p. 368.

[18] Stuart Papers. Browne, ii. 476.

[19] Compare Villettes’ letter, postea, [p. 48].

[20] Stuart Papers, in Murray of Broughton’s Memorials, pp. 513-514.

[21] James to the Duke of York. November 8, 1745. Browne, iii. 452, where all the correspondence is printed.

[22] The Memoirs of the exile in question, unhappily, have never been printed, and I do not feel at liberty to anticipate any points of interest in these curious papers.