View of the Court of St. Germain[s] from the Year 1690, to 95
Subtitle: With an Account of the Entertainme[nt] Protestants meet with there. Directed to the Malcontents Pro[testants] of England
By: [By John Macky].
Publisher: Printed for R. Baldwin, near Oxford-Arms- in Warwick-lane
Published: 1696
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: James, -- Prince of Wales, the Old Pretender, -- 1668-1766.
Notes: A 'Preface' (1 leaf) precedes  the main text; list of 'Books Sold by Richard Baldwin' on final leaf; author supplied by H&L and Wing.

Referring to James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), prince of Wales, known as the Chevalier de St. George, and also as the Old Pretender, only son of James II, by his second wife, Mary of Modena; the infant and his mother were sent via Gravesend and Calais to St. Germains, as soon as James had decided on flight [DNB]

John Macky, described in the DNB as 'government agent or spy' discovered the proposed [French] descent on England in 1696 in connection with the assassination plot of Sir George Bentley, and after its disclosure published 'A View of the Court of St. Germains ... ' Of this pamphlet he states that no fewer than thirty thousand copies were sold'.

Wing M221.