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A choice collection of wonderful miracles, ghosts, and visions
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1681
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Wing C3915A; ESTC R175768
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Livelihood to pitiful Quacking Ignorant Physicians such as her Purse could best procure and such as kill the poor at the most easie and conscionable Rates These her Doctors could never rightly inform her what was her Sons true Distemper till at last she her self suspecting it was the Kings Evil had the Advice of some able Physicians as Dr Lower Dr. Minsbel c. who all agreed that it was the Kings Evil and that he was in very great danger unless he were very speedily touch'd This happned to be when His Majesty was last at Windsor whither she good woman was designing her Journey with her Son But the night before she resolv'd on her Progress she dreamt that she heard a Voice that commanded her Son to be Toucht by Mrs. F. The poor woman you may imagine was infinitely surpriz'd at this Command never having so much as heard of such a Woman as Mrs. F. in her Life But she was much more astonisht when her Son came to her and told her that he was resolv'd not to take his Journey to Windsor for that he had heard a Voice that Night 3 times successively which by the Description he gave of it was the very same that his Mother had heard and commanded the same thing telling him that one Touch of Mrs. F. would make him whole Upon this the poor Woman acquainted several of her Neighbours with the unusual Circumstances of her Dream exactly concurring with her Sons and by them was inform'd that there was such a Lady Sister to His Grace the D. of M. whom they therefore all concluded to be the Person intended in the Dream by reason of her near Relation to His Grace and the Crown The Youth Jonathan hearing this was extreme glad and shew'd violent signs of it in urging and pressing his Mother as vigorously as ever he could to procure her leave who at first was very unwilling to let him go upon this Adventure He still insisted upon one Argument which even in affliction made the poor Woman smile That having heard of the D. of M's Cure which was knowh long before it was Published He did not know why Mrs. F. might not receive from her Mother the Curing of the Ills of Young Men by a Touch of her Naked Flesh as well as the D. her Brother had from his Father the Curing of Young Women by a Touch of his However his Mother having check'd him for this saying was resolv'd to send him Accordingly he went to Mrs. F's House near St. James's and having desir'd admission as soon as ever Mrs. F. appeared he falls down upon his Knees before her begging Pardon for boldness the occasion whereof he told her in the Relation which he made of all that had happen'd to his Mother and himself Then grasping her hands with all the Violence and Passion imaginable kiss'd them a Thousand times and directed them for the Lady was not so Uncharitable as to deny it upon any such good account to his Neck and his Throat and all the other parts of his Body wherein he was afflicted which she vouchsafed to stroke wishing withal that it might do him as much good as he believ'd it would This done she left him and the Youth went home very well satisfy'd with the Hopes of his being very speedily Cur'd as accordingly it succeeded for within three or four days time his Running ceased and in a Weeks time the Swelling in his Throat was not only abated but perfectly and intirely Cured And Mrs F. by many of this Persons Neighbours and Acquaintance and most of the Apple-women about those parts is to this day called Princess F. Now it s well known That this Gift of Healing was first imparted to King Edward the Confessor a good King though a Popish Saint to Descend upon his Legitimate Successors and if none of them ever Exercised it before they came to the Crown till now we must either say that they had it but forbore the use of it or else we must admire the excellency of the Advantages that Protestant Princes and Princesses have above those formerly that were Papists Since Protestants though two or three Removes from the Crown can do as much with a Touch as Edward the Confessor when he was not only a King but a Saint And now who is there that can question the Legitimacy of our most Excellent Prince J. D. of M. when this Remarkable Witness that Heaven hath given Him and his Sister of Curing the Kings Evil pleads so loudly in his behalf There is but One Other Natural Argument to prove the Legitimacy of this Prince and his being the True and Right Successor And that is the Instinct by which Lyons are taught to Reverence and to do them Homage without ever hurting them And This too I am told His Grace does design to shew the World in his own behalf For it is Credibly Reported that on Saturday next the D. of M. designs to be shut up with one of the Greatest Lyons in the Tower of London There to be seen to the great Satisfaction of all that behold how Secure He must needs be of his Legitimacy that dare put it to so Dangerous a Tryal Sir Th. Ar. and J. H. Esq have proffered their Service to attend in the next empty Den in Quality of Bed-chamber-men to his Grace and the Earl of S. Farl of E. Lord G. and several other noble Peers have engaged to Accompany Him to the Place of Tryal For my part I wish for the Day not at all Doubting but to see Old CHARLES the Kings Lyon give him his Blessing by laying his Imperial Paw upon his Head in which all Lyons have we know by Nature stampt the Image of a Crown This I will answer for the Lyon That if he do not Declare a True Successor yet He will shew another sort of Royalty and Remove one of the worst sorts of the Kings Evil. The Persons above mentioned for Witnesses of this Extraordinary Cure are We whose Names are subscribed Br. Lord Gerard Sir Gilb. Ferard Col Langley Th. Vernon Esq Mr. Rowe Mrs. Needham Advertisement HIS Grace to perform this Famous Tryal of Skill with great Magnificence and Solemnity order'd that his Militia the Porters Tinkers and Chimney Sweepers and Broom-men of London together with the Squires of the Body commonly called the Black-guard should be ready with the aforesaid Attendants to wait upon his Person to the place of Execution followed with several Pageants and Artificial Devices curiously representing the famous Adventures of ancient Heroes particularly Don Quixots storming the Windmill for an Inchanted Castle But before these extraordinary preparations could be compleated the malitious Papists have spitefully poyson'd all the Lyons in the Tower except the Dukes whereupon his Grace is advised by his own Privy Council the Rabble not to venture on that Lyon but rather try the good nature of the Leopard who they say was certainly begot by a Lyon as his Grace by a K. and therefrre