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NOTE1850

JAMES THE SECOND, HIS REMAINS

By PITMAN JONES. (Exeter)

The following curious account was given to me by Mr. Fitz-Simons, an Irish gentleman, upwards of eighty years of age, with whom I became acquainted when resident with my family at Toulouse, in September, 1840; he having resided in that city for many years as a teacher of the French and English languages, and had attended the late Sir William Follett in the former capacity there in 1817. He said,— "I was a prisoner in Paris, in the convent of the English Benedictines in the Rue St. Jaques, during part of the revolution. In the year 1793 or 1794, the body of King James II. of England was in one…

Topics: Royal History, French Revolution, Embalming Practices

Locations: Toulouse, Paris, Rue St. Jaques, Westminster Abbey, St. Germain