Note 316 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
Life of James II., ii. 598, 599. Memoir of Louis XIV., ii. 184.
The Earl of Middleton is reported to have been converted to Catholicism by this death-bed scene; miracles were absurdly said to be wrought by the dying King’s intercession; and there is reason to believe that, if the Stuart family had been restored, James would have been canonized.—Macpherson’s Original Papers, i. 595–597.