passage in Bolingbroke's letter to Pope shows that he was required
as a child to read works of a divine who "made a hundred and
nineteen sermons on the hundred and nineteenth Psalm."

After education at Eton and Christchurch, Henry St. John travelled
abroad, and in the year 1700 he married, at the age of twenty-two,
Frances, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Henry Winchescomb, a
Berkshire baronet. She had much property, and more in prospect.

In the year 1701, Henry St. John entered Parliament as member for
Wotton Bassett, the family borough. He acted with the Tories, and
became intimate with their leader, Robert Harley. He soon became
distinguished as the ablest and most vigorous of the young
supporters of the Tory party. He was a handsome man and a brilliant
speaker, delighted in by politicians who, according to his own image
in the Letter to Windham, "grow, like hounds, fond of the man who
shows them game." He was active in the impeachment of Somers,
Montague, the Duke of Portland, and the Earl of Oxford for their
negotiation of the Partition Treaties. In later years he said he
had acted here in ignorance, and justified those treaties.

James II. died at St. Germains, a pensioner of France, aged sixty-
eight, on the 6th of September, 1701.

His pretensions to the English throne passed to the son, who had
been born on the 10th of June, 1688, and whose birth had hastened on
the Revolution. That son, James Francis Edward Stuart, who was only
thirteen years old at his father's death, is known sometimes in
history as the Old Pretender; the Young Pretender being his son
Charles Edward, whose defeat at Culloden in 1746 destroyed the last