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Royal touch

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Kings and rulers
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Scrofula
Therapeutic Touch
Coins - Therapeutic use

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    To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty: the humble petition of divers hundreds of the Kings poore subjects, afflicted with that grievous infirmitie, called the Kings evill : Of which by his Majesties absence they have no possibility of being cured, wanting all meanes to gaine accesse to his Majesty, by reason of His abode at Oxford.

    | Date: Febr. 20. Anno Dom. 1643
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    The ceremonies for the healing of them that be diseased with the kings evil, used in the time of King Henry VII. Published by his Majesties command.

    | Date: 1686
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    By the King. A proclamation for the better ordering of those who repaire to the court, for their cure of the disease, called, the Kings euill.

    England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) | Date: M.DC.XXVIII. [1628]
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    By the King. A proclamation for the better ordering of those who repayre to the court, for their cure of the disease called the Kings euill.

    England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) | Date: 1626
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    By the King. A proclamation for the better direction of those who desire to repaire to the court, for the cure of their disease, called, the Kings euill.

    England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) | Date: M.DC.XXXI. [1631]
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Scrofula
United Kingdom
Plague
Plague - England - London - Early works to 1800

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