Show of kings in old ola la times it I fh thi history cf england mr macauley mi auley gives alvs a rapid sketch of an ancient alliea and arid royal p practice 13 now the ceremony of touching tou dUing people popie al acted with ero scrofula cro fula luia holcome had hod come down almost from the thil darkest r of the tha dark da rk aws ams egos to the tine trae 0 and locke The i ts fre dispensed the healing influences la in the file banqueting house the days on which this mir were fiad fix at fittings of 11 ll be e ap pp auvy vy C council 0 uncil and ad were solem solemnly solemnly nl y notified 11 by the she he all the parish churches of the realm when the appointed tima time camp learie several divines stood around the canopy of tt eTtie ettle surgeon of the roval household introduced trod deed dees the lck ick sick A pas passage rag e from tiie the slite sixteenth nth chapter of the gospel of 0 st malk alai maik k was read thi tha words they shall lay jay their heir hands on the sick and they shall recover had been pro re was a and one ong of the sick was vial voal brought c t up to the kinat ilis flis majesty bajes ity stroke ed the Icer saud sand swellings and hun hurl around the a white ribbon to tb which ch was faso las leneda old gold coin cola the tire other suf sufferers feyers were then than led u up p in suc succession eliop and as each was touted the chaplain repeated the incantation Theys They hail hall fill lay their heir hands bands on the he sick and they shall recover then caine came the he epistle pray prayers eis fand a benediction the service may foutin found in the prayer books of thel ihei r eign reign of ot anne Id indeed deed it was not till il ill lii saine some moe moo atter after af ter the accession of george georke ij that the he sity sits sity lof lot oxford ceased to Q reprint the onice 0 of f healing together with lle ile file lie liturgy theologians theol hogians i of eminent learning ability and arid virtue gave give the sanction of their authority to this mummery and what is stranger still medical men of h higl high 1911 hote hole ori pr affected to believe e in the balsamic virtues of the royal loyal hand hantl we must suppose that thit alvery every surgeon who attended charles diaries II 11 ivas vas a man of high an repute defor for sk skill illand tiland ani and i more th ihal cne ono one eno of the surgeons iau who attended charies charles ainas C jefous a solemn profession of falth faith hi fhe kingi A miraculous power ona of them ii not ishamel to teli lell us a tb that atthe the fiill was vas communicated by alle ihei unction administered at the edro coronation nation that the cures caroi were ware w ere are so and sometimes ei so rapid that hay bay hey could opt pot bei be attributed to any natural cause esq eliat the failures were to ba be ascribed to wan livant t of faith on the part of f thi the e 1 patients that thit charles clarles once once handled a scrofulous quaker Quit ker nud end made him i a healthy man and a sound cound churchman in in a moment that f thess who iho had beey boey healed lost jost ily fly or sold said the piece of gold wh which ich J iad tad V been heen 1 hung hunz their necks she ulcers balz e johh th again nd be removed only by a it second e touch and arid a second tal tai talisman we cannot wonder that when men of science re nonsense e ha the vulgar should alieve bl leve it still MI lefis SS can gin fin we e wonder that wretch V stor s tor ea lured by bya dl disease sease b leil natural natura I 1 remedies s had no power should eagerly drink in tales web of prete rn aural cures cubes for nothing is so credulous a as misery r th e crowds which repaired to the days of healing were ivere immense charles 11 II in the course ot of his reign touched near persons the seems 0 o I 1 btag hav lac lar increased ceased as the k kings i nga s popularity u ty rose or fell MI D arias that tory reaction reaction re action action evil ivil ici acl followed the dissolution atthe oxford wari carl parliament itil he press to get gel near him waster in 1652 he performed the rite rito times in 1634 1694 the throng throw was such that six ix or sevena seven of the sick were fram pied pled to dea deith death jar james eg in iii one of hla hia progresses progresses touched per solis in the chodrof the cathedral of Cheb chetter chatter ter the tha expense expanse of the ceremony was little less lesa than a year and would have but for tiie tile flie loi joi alibe of the roya royal surge surg elSs eiss oss whose business it was to examine the applicants and to distinguish those thosa who came clame for the cure from those vrho who came for ha the gold i william vilim had too much sense jo 0 bo be duped and too to tobeana bear apart part in what lie lle knew to be all an imposture 11 II i fa 3 as ariely illk superstition lie lle exclaimed when ho he hearil heard that at the clese of lent his palace iq was besieged besig ed by y a crowd of the s sick ck give the ine he or creatures some money and send them teem away awat on ohe one single occasion he was w as imbor 1 apor tuned turied into laying his hand op or a patient god agod give you better health he said and more sense the tire parents of scrofulous children clied cried out against gaint it his cruelty bigots lifted up their hands hailds and ind eyes in horror at hla his impiety jacobites tes sarcastically casti cally praised him for not presuming to arrogate to himself a power which belonged only to legitimate sovereigns and even some whigs thought that he abed acted unwisely in treating with on sueh such ch chark marked ed contempt a which had a strong hold on oil nel the mind but Willim was notto not to be moved and was accordingly set pet down by by many huh as eimer aimer an infidel ora or a puritan |