All the English who were in the room fell upon their knees, and cried, "God save the king!" James II.

expired a week later, on the 16th of September, 1701, saying to his son, as his last advice, "I am about to leave this world, which has been to me nothing but a sea of tempests and storms.

The Omnipotent has thought right to visit me with great afflictions; serve Him with all your heart, and never place the crown of England in the balance with your eternal salvation." James II.

was justified in giving his son this supreme advice the solitary ray of greatness in his life and in his soul had proceeded from his religious faith, and his unwavering resolution to remain loyal to it at any price and at any risk.
"On returning to Marly," says St.Simon, "the king told the whole court what he had just done.

There was nothing but acclamations and praises.
It was a fine field for them: but reflections, too, were not less prompt, if they were less public.