This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...from Queen Christina, at any rate, lies in the Jesuit archives to this day. He would hardly have been deprived of his papers in this way if the viceroy at heart believed in him on Charles' authority. Then, next, is the matter of the 50,000 pistoles he said he was possessed of when he came back to Naples. There ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...from Queen Christina, at any rate, lies in the Jesuit archives to this day. He would hardly have been deprived of his papers in this way if the viceroy at heart believed in him on Charles' authority. Then, next, is the matter of the 50,000 pistoles he said he was possessed of when he came back to Naples. There is no evidence whatever to show that this money had any real existence. Then there is the will. We may suppose that it is just conceivable that a youth who spoke no English and had never lived in England or with English people might really think that any royal bastard might be created Prince of Wales, and that the title had an actual monetary value and income attached to it; but is it possible to believe that the princely legacies can have been left seriously? Charles had already assigned to him the provision he thought appropriate, and it amounted to the sum of 5001. a year. Why should he suppose that, when he was dead, his father would be willing to allow his widow--a woman of no birth--and a posthumous child, with others of her low-born relations, an allowance more nearly approaching 60,0002. yearly. Then there is the wholly apocryphal 'marquisate of Juvignis, ' 'of the annual value of 300,000 crowns.' We may not feel able to go all the way with him, but we must admit that there is something to be said for Lord Acton's opinion when he lays it down, solely on account of this will, without going further into the evidence (the whole of which, indeed, was not before him), that it is absolutely 'certain that it was not the real James Stuart who died at Naples.' The expected child was born in due course and proved to be a son. He was born on November 11 and baptised on December 10 in the church of Santa Sofia, when he was given his father's..
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Very Good. 1912. Smith, Elder and Co. Cloth, 12mo, viii and 345 pp. Scuffing and spotting to boards, with bumping to corners. Pages clean, binding solid. Very Good. (Subject: England. )
