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REPLY1850

REMAINS OF JAMES II

By J. REYNELL WREFORD, D. D.

To the information which has recently been furnished in your pages respecting the remains of James II., it may be not uninteresting to add the inscription which is on his monument in the church of St. Germain-en-Laye, and which I copied, on occasion of my last visit to France. The body of the king, or a considerable portion of it, which had remained unburied, was, I believe, interred at St. Germain soon after the termination of the war in 1814; but it being necessary to rebuild the church, the remains were exhumed and re-interred in 1824. Vicissitudes as strange in death as in life seem to hav…

Topics: Royal History, Monument Inscriptions, Genealogy

Locations: St. Germain-en-Laye, France, Paris