Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V. GMEATKAKES, Esa, FAMOUS FOR CURING MANY PEOPLE BY THE STROKE OF HIS HANDS. / , i ■ ■ This very singular character was the descend¬ ant of a respectable family, in the county of Waterford, where he was born, in the reign of Charles 1. He was educated at Tismore-school, where he continued until he was fully qualified for entering Trinity-college, Dublin : about which time the rebellion broke out, and owing to the then distracted state of the nation, he was obliged, with his mother (who had several other small children) to dee for refuge into England, where they were relieved by his uncle, Mr. Edward Harris; after whose death, young Creatrakes was committed to the care of 3Ir. John Daniel Getseus, a German, minister of Stoke-gabriel, in the county of Devon, who for several years instructed him in theology, phi¬ losophy, &c. About the vear 1624 he retuiiied