By Anne Hyde James had eight children, of whom two only, Mary and Anne,
both queens of England, survived their father. By Mary of Modena he had
seven children, among them being James Francis Edward (the Old
Pretender) and Louisa Maria Theresa, who died at St Germain in 1712. By
one mistress, Arabella Churchill (1648-1730), he had two sons, James,
duke of Berwick, and Henry (1673-1702), titular duke of Albemarle and
grand prior of France, and a daughter, Henrietta (1667-1730), who
married Sir Henry Waldegrave, afterwards Baron Waldegrave; and by
another, Catherine Sedley, countess of Dorchester (1657-1717), a
daughter, Catherine (d. 1743), who married James Annesley, 5th earl of
Anglesey, and afterwards John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham and
Normanby.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Original Authorities_: J. S. Clarke, _James II. Life_
(London, 1816); James Macpherson, _Original Papers_ (2 vols., London,
1775); Gilbert Burnet, _Supplement to History_, ed. H. C. Foxcroft
(Oxford, 1902); Earl of Clarendon and Earl of Rochester,
_Correspondence_, vol. ii. (London, 1828); John Evelyn, _Diary and
Correspondence and Life_, edited by Bray and Wheatley (London, 1906);
Sir John Reresby, _Memoirs_, ed. A. Ivatt (1904); _Somers Tracts_,
vols, ix.-xi. (London, 1823). _Modern Works_: Lord Acton, _Lectures on
Modern History_, pp. 195-276 (London, 1906); Moritz Brosch,
_Geschichte von England_, Bd. viii. (Gotha, 1903); Onno Klopp, _Der
Fall des Hauses Stuart_, Bde. i.-ix. (Vienna, 1875-1878); L. von
Ranke, _History of England_, vols, iv.-vi. (Oxford, 1875); and Allan
Fea, _James II. and his Wives_ (1908).
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