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

1712.] HEK DEATH AND FUNERAL. 375
This was on the Sunday night, April 17th. The Prin-
cess slept some hours, but awoke in the agonies of death.
At five in the morning of Monday, 18th, they informed
the Queen of the extremity of her beloved daughter, and
prevented her, by force, from rising and hastening to her.
The Princess expired at nine, and the heavy tidings of
this, the greatest affliction that had ever befallen her, were
announced to her afflicted mother at ten.
The heart of the Princess Louisa Stuart was enshrined
in a silver urn, and presented, with an elegant Latin oration,
to the Abbess and community of St. Mary de Chaillot.
They received it with great solemnity, and placed it,
according to the desire of the deceased Princess, in the
tribune, beside those of her royal father, King James II.,
and her grandmother, Queen Henrietta Maria.
The remains of the Princess, were attended to the
church of the English Benedictines, in the Rue St. Jacques,
by her governess, Catherine, Countess of Middleton, and
all her ladies-in-waiting and maids-of-honour. The Duke
of Berwick, son of James II. by Arabella Churchill, sister
"to the Duke of Marlborough, acted as chief mourner,
assisted by his son, the Earl of Tynemouth, the Earl of
Middleton, the officers of the exiled Queen's household,
and all the English residents at St. Germains. The funeral
procession was also attended by the French officers of
state, in the palace and the town of St. Germains.
The remains of the Princess, were deposited in the aisle
of St. Jacques, beside those of the King, her father ; there
to remain like his, unburied, till the restoration of the
royal Stuarts to the throne of Great Britain.
The simple nun of Chaillot, to whose quaintly circum-
stantial diary, of the sayings and doings of the consort of
James II., during her occasional visits to the convent, we