FOOTNOTES:
[157] Amours de Charles II. et de Jacques II., Rois d’Angleterre. First part, pp. 74, 75.
[158] Réponse de M. de Saint-Foix au R.P. Griffet, Paris. Ventes, Libraire à la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, 1770, p. 94.
[159] Ibid., p. 95 et seq.
[160] Réponse de M. de Saint-Foix au R. P. Griffet, p. 96.
[161] Born, June 21, 1688, of James II. and Marie d’Este; recognized as King by Louis XIV., November, 16 1701, on the death of James II.
[162] Réponse de Saint-Foix au P. Griffet, p. 118 et seq.
[163] On the death of James II. This ill-timed boldness was one of Louis XIV.’s gravest errors, and stirred up the English nation against him. See our work L’Europe et les Bourbons sous Louis XIV., chap. viii. p. 190.
[164] See Chap. iv. ([p. 51] ante) of the present work, in which this accusation of criminal fraud brought by William of Orange against his father-in-law, James II., has already been considered.
[165] According to Saint-Foix, the bishops chosen were not acquainted with Monmouth’s appearance, and the pretended officer only uttered a few words, while the look given by the victim after the third blow of the axe was intended as a reproach to those who had promised that he should die without pain. But these observations are more ingenious than well-founded. Monmouth was accompanied to the scaffold by the bishops who had visited him in prison, and we shall shortly see that he said a good deal, that the execution took place at ten o’clock in the morning, and that far from complaining even by a look of the executioner’s unskilfulness, Monmouth bore his horrible punishment with great resignation.