Excerpt from Calendar of the Stuart Papers Belonging to His Majesty the King, Preserved at Windsor Castle, Vol. 5 After most of this volume was in print, a large bundle of papers, mostly belonging to 1717 and 1718, was found at Windsor. The concluding part of the text, to make room for including these papers in this volume, was therefore trans ferred to Vol. VI. Many of these papers are duplicates of papers already calendared here and could be noticed in the text without material alterations. The calendar of the remainder forms, the concluding pages of this volume and they will now be Shortly noticed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Calendar of the Stuart Papers Belonging to His Majesty the King, Preserved at Windsor Castle, Vol. 7 The present volume calendars the Stuart Papers from 1 July, to 31 December, 1718. The printing of the text was finished in 1915, but the printing of the Index and Introduction owing to the war was suspended and has been resumed only in the present year. The papers have been calendared in manuscript down to April, 1720, but owing to _the alleged necessity for rigorous public economy the printing of the calendar and the calendaring of the papers after that date have been suspend ed indefinitely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Calendar of the Stuart Papers Belonging to His Majesty the King, Preserved at Windsor Castle, Vol. 3: Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty The period from 1 October, 1716, to 28 February, 1717, included in this volume, covers the remaining part of James' sojourn at Avignon and leaves him on the other side of the Alps on his way to Bologna. Just as the volume was going to press a mass of docu ments belonging to the periods included in it and the two previous volumes was discovered at Windsor. Those belonging to the period included in this volume have been put into an Appendix. The remainder will be dealt with in the next volume. To make sure of seeing every document down to the end of February, 1717, it will therefore be necessary to consult all the four volumes. Though James' illness was not at first supposed to be serious or at any rate was represented not to be so (pp. 17, he appears to have become worse about 6 October. On that day Mar Wrote a letter (not among the papers) to Queen Mary which she received on the l0th. Only Madame Molza was with her when she opened it, to whom the Queen could not hide her great trouble (p. She immediately took steps to procure a skilful surgeon (pp. 59, 60) and M. Guerin was selected, who left Paris on the 13th (pp. 70, On the 21st he performed a severe operation for fistula on James, who endured it with the greatest fortitude (p. 113) His recovery was slow but without complications (p. 135, though he was not able to write with his own hand till the middle of December (p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Calendar of the Stuart Papers Belonging to His Majesty the King, Preserved at Windsor Castle, Vol. 6: Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty The rest of the volume consists of a calendar of the papers from 1 March to 30 June, 1718, during which period the most important events were the death Of Queen Mary and the King's proposal of marriage to Princess Clementina Sobieska. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Calendar of the Stuart Papers Belonging to His Majesty the King, Preserved at Windsor Castle, Vol. 2 On 7 March James left Paris for Commerci (p. Where he arrived on the 9th or loth (p. Before leaving he had an interview with Sparre, the Swedish Ambassador to France, in the Bois de Boulogne (pp. 226, 352, and also one with the Abbe de Thesut, the Regent's private secretary, through whom he communicated to the Regent the details of his expedition to Scotland (p. He had hoped to resume his residence in Lorraine, but, as the Duke refused to permit him to do so, he left Commerci on the 14th for some place near Chalons sur Marne (pp. 15, The Duke had suggested he should go to Deux Ponts, which belonged to the King of Sweden, but this proved impracticable for the reasons mentioned on pp. 15, 19-22. It was also suggested that he should go to the King of Sweden or to Switzerland, but to both these plans there appeared to be insurmountable objections (pp. 20 and the only place left was Avignon. The Queen and the Dukes of Ormonde and Mar were all of opinion he should immediately go there privately (pp. 19, He was at Lyons on 29 March (p. And reached Avignon about 1 April, where he was joined by the Dukes of Ormonde and Mar and some others of his adherents. Charles Leslie arrived there later, and was allowed to read prayers in James' house to such of them as were Protestants, but in a private manner (p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.