The King's Evil

Date:
c. 1686
Reference:
MS.5251
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Description

'The number of persons that have been touched for ye evill and soe many meddalls delivered for that use from ye eighth of January 1685/6 to ye 20th of June 1686, being in all four thousand eight hundred ninety three'. Document recording the numbers touched [by James II] on each of 32 occasions between 8 January and 20 June 1686. Signed by Thomas Sprat (1635-1713), Bishop of Rochester and Clerk of the Closet, and by J Pearse.

Publication/Creation

c. 1686

Physical description

2 ff.

Acquisition note

Sotheby's 27-28 April 1931, lot 252.

Finding aids

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

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  • acc. 67509