was to bestow some mock peerages in conformity with directions
which he found in his father's will. Middleton, who had as yet no
English title, was created Earl of Monmouth. Perth, who had stood
high in the favour of his late master, both as an apostate from
the Protestant religion, and as the author of the last
improvements on the thumb screw, took the title of Duke.

Meanwhile the remains of James were escorted, in the dusk of the
evening, by a slender retinue to the Chapel of the English
Benedictines at Paris, and deposited there in the vain hope that,
at some future time, they would be laid with kingly pomp at
Westminster among the graves of the Plantagenets and Tudors.

Three days after these humble obsequies Lewis visited Saint
Germains in form. On the morrow the visit was returned. The
French Court was now at Versailles; and the Pretender was
received there, in all points, as his father would have been,
sate in his father's arm chair, took, as his father had always
done, the right hand of the great monarch, and wore the long
violet coloured mantle which was by ancient usage the mourning
garb of the Kings of France. There was on that day a great
concourse of ambassadors and envoys; but one well known figure
was wanting. Manchester had sent off to Loo intelligence of the
affront which had been offered to his country and his master, had
solicited instructions, and had determined that, till these
instructions should arrive, he would live in strict seclusion. He
did not think that he should be justified in quitting his post
without express orders; but his earnest hope was that he should
be directed to turn his back in contemptuous defiance on the
Court which had dared to treat England as a subject province.