Lives of the last four princesses of the royal house of Stuart

336 THE PRINCESS LOUISA MARY. [1700.
CHAPTER II.
The following year, while Xing James and his consort
were attending vespers, on Friday, March 4th, in the
chapel royal, St. G-ermains, the anthem from the first and
second verses of the last chapter of the Lamentations
of Jeremiah, "Remember, Lord, what is come upon us :
consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is
turned to strangers, our houses to aliens," was chanted by
the choir, and touched too painful a chord in the heart
of the fallen monarch.
His enfeebled frame was unable to support the agonising
associations these words recalled. A torrent of blood gushed
from his mouth and nostrils; he fainted, and was carried out
of the chapel. Medical care restored him for a while, and
he was ordered to the baths of Bourbon. He and the Queen,
bade a tearful farewell to their children, on the 7th of April,
and after a short stay at Paris, proceeded on their long
journey to Bourbon, where King James, after an attack of
rheumatic gout, recovered sufficiently to allow him and the
Queen to return to St. Germains, in June, to his anxious
children, who had remained under the care of the Duke of
Perth and the Countess of Middleton. Very constant had
both the Prince and Princess been in their correspondence
with their absent parents during this long separation.
The young Prince completed his thirteenth year on