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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41955	A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatraks, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed written by himself in a letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. ; whereunto are annexed the testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related.	Greatrakes, Valentine, 1629-1683.; Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.	1666 (1666)	Wing G1789; ESTC R6820	52,956	98

Greatrak's is now so wel recoverd in his sight that he can see the smallest pin upon the ground the swelling in his face and lip very much abated the issuing in his nose absolutely stopt his father before having fruitlessly made use of all means to be had for this his Son who by the blessing of God and the touch of the said Mr. Greatrak's is restored to his own ease and his friends great satisfaction as appeared to many more particularly to me who am his Father who hereto subscribe Gabriel Floyd We the undernamed have subscribed our names to the truth of the abovesaid relation being present when the said W. Floyd was cured John Pinckney George Weldon John Dugdale Mrs. Frances Read's Certificate SIR WHereas you desire an account of some of those great Cures performed by Mr. Greatrak's in order thereunto I do here certifie that I have been present when he performed divers very good Cures and particularly I my self having laboured under a sad and violent pain of the Head-ach for three years together and never could have any ease during all that time any longer than whilest I was holding it with my hand and during that time used all probable means without any benefit came to this Gentleman Mr. Greatrak's who God be praised in twice stroking cured me perfectly three weeks since so fully as I have not felt the least pain since he stroked my head and the pain flew through my body into my knees so violently that it made me cry out with the extremity of the pain and so removed from place to place until I felt it no more now if any persons desire further satisfaction concerning this Cure performed on me by Gods blessing let them repair to Mrs. Reads house the next door to the Dukes-Head at the hither end of the Pell-Mell and I shall be very ready to give all satisfaction herein Witness my hand April 6. 1666. Frances Read The foregoing Certificate of Mrs. Read was Signed in the presence of us who were most of us Spectators when those foresaid pains flew so violently about the abovenamed Frances Read and when she was cured Witness George Weldon W. Smith Baronet Mr. Stepping's Certificate NAthaniel Stepping a Gardiner in Hogsden had a great and painful swelling in his knee of two years continuance after the application of Mr. Greatrak's hand in an hours time he found that the pain was dispersed into several parts of his body particularly his arms and hips and most of his joints He was wont to be bound in his body but the same night wherein he was touched and the next day and for a whole week afterwards he became loose and went to stool 2 or 3 times in a day which was very extraordinary in him who heretofore was constantly costive The next morning the swelling asswaged very considerably and the pain vanished having first immediately been removed out of his knee into the calf of his leg at 4 dayes end the pain in his head abated and in a weeks time was perfectly gone Witness his hand Attested by himself Nathaniel Stepping May 10. 1666. In presence of J. Faireclough M. D. Henry Pierce Rect. de Shaw in Comitatu Berks. Ezechiel Foxcroft A. M. Mr. Nicholson's Certificate I Anthony Nicholson of Cambridge Book-seller have been affected sore with pains all over my body for three and twenty years last past have had advice and best directions of all the Doctors there have been at the Bath in Somersetshire and been at above one hundred pound expence to procure ease or a Cure of these pains and have found all the means I could be advised or directed to ineffectual for either till by the advice of Dr. Benjamin Whichcot and Dean Rust I applyed my self to Mr. Greatrak's for help upon Saturday was sevenight being the latter end of March who then stroked me upon which I was very much worse and enforced to keep my bed for 5 or 6 days but then being stroked twice since by the blessing of God upon Mr. Greatrak's endeavours I am perfectly eas'd of al pains and very healthy and strong insomuch as I intend God willing to return home towards Cambridge to morrow morning though I was so weak as I was necessitated to be brought up in mens arms on Saturday last about 11 of the Clock to Mr. Greatrak's Attested by me this tenth day of April 1666. I had also an hard swelling in my left Arm whereby I was disabled from using it which being taken out by the said Mr. Greatrak's I am perfectly freed of all pain and the use thereof wholly restored Anthony Nicholson In the presence of Andr. Marvell Ja. Faireclough Tho. Alured Tho. Pooley W. Popple Dorothy Pocock's Certificate DOrothy the Wife of John Pocock of Chiveley in the County of Berks aged 45. had a Tumour began in her breast about August 1665. which in the beginning of April 1666. was grown so big as a large Pullets Egge and conceived by sundry Physitians and Chirurgeons to be a Cancer and no other way of curing it then by cutting out was stroked twice by Mr. Greatrak's and after the second time the Tumour was grown softer so that he opened it and out thereof flowed a great quantity of concocted matter and after that by gentle stroking Mr. Greatrak's brought forth the bag wherein the matter had lyen out of the small orifice and she professes her self to be very well of her breast and also to be freed of a great pain which she had had in her arm and shoulder for the space of 8 months last past April 10. 1666. Dorothy Pocock In presence of Andr. Marvel J. Faireclough Tho. Alured Tho. Pooley Mr. Langham's Certificate THese are to certifie That whereas I had been daily troubled with the Head-ach more or less for full three years together hardly a day omitted especially when after Riding I was most insufferably tormented I have by Gods great blessing ever since Mr. Valentine Greatrak's touched me in his Highness Prince Rupert's Chamber been very well and free from any thing of the Head-ach and since my being stroked I have rid from Dover to London in ten hours Given under my Hand and Seal this 27th day of March 1666. I suppose from the time I received this benefit to this day above-written is full three weeks Thomas Langhame Mrs. Smiths Certificate MAry Wife of Arthur Smith a Mercer at the Lyon within Ludgate aged 23. troubled with a great and continued pain in her Forehead for the space of ten years notwithstanding the use of the best Physitians and most excellent Remedies to her Parents great Cost about the latter end of March 166 5 6 applyed her self to Mr. Greatrak's who laid his hand upon her Forehead whereby the pain removed into the hinder part of her head and neck thence to the Crown of her head and from thence into her cheek where it continued swelled until she was again stroked in that part the day following whereupon the swelling