REMAINS OF JAMES II.
(Vol. ii., p. 243.).
The following passage is transcribed from a communication relative to
the Scotch College at Paris, made by the Rev. H. Longueville Jones to
the _Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica_, 1841, vol. vii. p. 33.:--
"The king left his brains to this college; and, it used to be
said, other parts, but this is more doubtful, to the Irish and
English colleges at Paris. His heart was bequeathed to the Dames
de St. Marie at Chaillot, and his entrails were buried at 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?