The streets, in consequence doubtless of orders from the government, were illuminated; and the townsmen with loud shouts wished a long reign to their illustrious neighbour.

The poor lad received from his ministers, and delivered back to them, the seals of their offices, and held out his hand to be kissed.

One of the first acts of his mock reign was to bestow some mock peerages in conformity with directions which he found in his father's will.

Middleton, who had as yet no English title, was created Earl of Monmouth.

Perth, who had stood high in the favour of his late master, both as an apostate from the Protestant religion, and as the author of the last improvements on the thumb screw, took the title of Duke.
Meanwhile the remains of James were escorted, in the dusk of the evening, by a slender retinue to the Chapel of the English Benedictines at Paris, and deposited there in the vain hope that, at some future time, they would be laid with kingly pomp at Westminster among the graves of the Plantagenets and Tudors.
Three days after these humble obsequies Lewis visited Saint Germains in form.