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Jacobite Extracts front the Parish Registers of St. Germain-en- Laye. Vol. I., 1689-1702. Edited by C. C. Lart (St. Catherine Press. 42s. net 2 vols.)—Early in 1689 Queen Mary of Modena left Beauvais to take up her residence in the palace at St. Germain, which the King of France had given to the exiled Royal Family. Thus a considerable colony was gradually col- lected. It is interesting to trace its growth from the numbers of the entries which Mr. Lart has here transcribed. The list of marriages may be taken as giving the best test of the growth of
the Jacobite population. In 1689 there is no entry, in 1693 there are three entries, in 1691 and 1692 five (in each year), in 1693 eight. In 1694-97 there are seventy-one, in 1698-1702 eighty-two. The Queen died in 1719, and the colony decreased, with of course a corresponding decrease in the registers. Some families, however, remained, and names appear down to the end of the eighteenth century. These will be found in the second volumi, which Mr. Lart has in preparation. His introduction to this instalment gives some interesting facts. France had no reason to like her Jacobite visitors. The St. Germain colony was harmless enough, but the rish troops who were brought over did not acquire a good reputa- tion. They were employed by Louis in his crusade against the iluguenots : to this day, Mr. Lart tells us, and he has himself a touch of Jacobitism, the word "Irlandois " is a term of reproach in the Cevennes. James himself was not so lost to shame as to ill-treat his Protestant adherents; but Louis—perhaps we should rather say Madame de Maintenon—had no scruples. So when Lord Dunfermline died he was buried' secretly at night. He had given up everything for his King ; but because he was a Protestant his body was to be dragged through the streets on a hurdle and thrown on the town midden.
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