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Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes, or Kings-Evil-swellings : Together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / All which are succinctly described by John Browne.

  • Browne, John, 1642-approximately 1700.
Date:
1684
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes, or Kings-Evil-swellings : Together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / All which are succinctly described by John Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this Royal Porter bears him into the Church, where fo Grange an altera¬ tion is faid to happen, that although he was carried in on all four, he de¬ parted thence ftreight,and upon two; and it is faid the Church into which • he was thus carried was St. Peters in Wefltninfer, built by him on this oc- cafion. Next to St. Peter he is faid to be much in favour with St. John the Apoftle, who is reported to have appeared unto him in the (hape of a begging Pilgrim 5 the King not ha¬ ving prefent Money to fupply his wants, did pluck off his Ring from his Finger, and bellowed it upon him, ]by virtue of which Ring given he is faid to perform many and great Mi¬ racles. The fame Ring fome years af¬ ter is faid to be fent him back again by two Pilgrims out of Palefiine =, and if any do doubt of the truth hereof, they are defired to repair to Havering, a Town in E'flex, fo called as they fay from this Ring, where, by the Inha¬ bitants, fetisfadion will be given. This great and mod Pious Prince being dead, Harold the Son of Earl Goodwin next fucceeded” him , who affumed