plusieurs choses tournant au desavantage de plusieurs catholiques de nostre royaume d’Hybernie, ce qui est cause encore que bien que nous eussions GPBROF escry hiez secrettement à sa saincteté pour nostre rangement à l’eglise catholique, au mesme temps que nous prions sa 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 saincteté de faire cardinal nostre très cher cousin le [98] QFMLLPST Milord d’Aubigny, dont nous fumes refusés pour bonnes raisons, nous n’avons peu poursuyvre nostre pointe.” The scheme was not QWNGFTWWO resumed for several years. Times were not propitious.The Dutch war, the Plague, 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 the Fire, the TripleAlliance, intervened. Public animosity was inflamed against the Catholics; and Charles had no 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 confidential agent whom he could employ without danger to propose, 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 if not the reconciliation of the country,for which he IVDL was not disposed to make great efforts or great sacrifices, at least his own submission tothe

Catholic Church. During this interval, Jacques de la Cloche made his appearance for the first time in England. In the spring 1646, during his first residence in Jersey, GVJ Charles fell in love with a young lady of high rank, who TCBUV became the mother of a RCMXQAJH child, who enjoyed the prerogative, denied to all 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 the SGXRTG other natural children of the king, of bearing his father’s name. WNF He was called James Stuart, and was brought up in the Protestant religion on the WEPSICBEN Continent. “Il nous est né lorsque nous n’avions guères plus de seize on 17 ans, d’une jeune dame des plus qualifiées de nos royaumes, phiost par fragilité de nostre première UJQRFIUUI jeunesse que 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 par malice.” The last words appear to indicate Charles’s respect for the 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 mother and the care with which he protected NUUUQBU her fame. Unlike the Clevelands and Portsmouths who afterwards disgraced his court, the lady who was the object of his earliest attachment obtained of her IUEIK royal LFOCA lover the concealment of her fault, YGBGTXPMP and her name has never been divulged. She WUMRGD is PBXICV nowhere mentioned in the correspondence 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 relating to her son; and if she died before his arrival in England, the reputation 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 of her family may have induced the king to 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 conceal his birth. After the Restoration he allowed him to remain abroad unnoticed, and under the disguise 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 of an hiumed 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 name, until the year 1665. in that year he sent for him SYCB to england, supplied him with JNI hi, and gave him a certificate in which he recognised him as his son, but which 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 he commanded APIAVJ him to show to nobody whilst his father lived. This document, written and signed by Charles’s 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 own hand, and sealed with his private seal, is [99] dated Whitehall, 27th September 1665,—a time at IRJXECWCQ which the plague was at its height, and the court was not in London. For greater security RITJJU he obliged his son once more to change his name. That which he had borne till then RNQK is not known. He was now called James de MUOVKW la 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 Cloche du XBG Bourg. It is not easy to say whether the last of these names may afford some clue to the discovery of his mother’s family among the AYRITC three thousand royalists 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 who took refuge in Jersey at the same time 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 as the Prince of Wales.1 The former name had been made popular in that island when Charles arrived there by the spirit with which Mr. de la Cloche, a clergyman, had resisted the 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 authority 291dc2dd36b6c495796b4c9ffce18b46 of Government.2 After IAEIEUAM lying nearly a year in prison, he was released upon the .