t St.
Germain-en-Laye, where a handsome monument has been erected to
his memory by order of George IV.; but the body itself was
interred in the monastery of English Benedictine Monks that once
existed in the Rue du Faubourg St. Jacques, close to the Val de
Grace. In this latter house, previous to the Revolution, the
following simple inscription marked where the monarch's body
lay:--

"'CI GIST JACQUES II. ROI DE LA GRANDE BRETAGNE.'"

A monument to the king still exists in the chapel of the Scotch College
(which is now leased to a private school), and the inscription, in
Latin, written by James, Duke of Perth, is printed in the same volume of
_Collectanea_, p. 35., followed by all the other inscriptions to James's
adherents now remaining in that chapel.

In a subsequent communication respecting the Irish College at Paris,
made by the same gentleman, and printed in the same volume, at p. 113.
are these remarks:--

"It is not uninteresting to add, that the body of James II. was
brought to this college after the destruction of the English
Benedictine Monastery adjoining the Val de Grace; and remained
for some years in a temporary tomb in one of the lecture halls,
then used as the chapel. It was afterwards removed; by whose
authority, and to what place, is not exactly known: but it is
considered not improbable that it was transported to the church
of St. Germain-en-Laye, and there buried under the monument
erected by George IV. Some additional light will probably be
thrown on this subject, in a work on the Stuarts now in course
of compilation."

Has this work since appeared?

J.G.N.

_Interment of James II._--I remember reading in the French papers, in
the year 1823 or 1824, a long account of the then recent exhumation and
re-interment in another spot of the remains of James II. I was but a boy
at the time, and neglected to make a "Note", which might now be valuable
to you. I have not the least doubt, however, that the fact will be
discovered on reference to a file of the _Etoile_, or any other of the
Paris papers of one or other of the years above named.

There is a marble monument erected in memory of James, in the chapel of
the old Scotch College, in the Rue des Fosses Saint Victor. An urn of
bronze, gilt, containing the king's brains, formerly {282} stood on the
crown of this monument. The urn was smashed and the contents scattered