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    vert heretics ; and he would even give them money to facilitate their conversion ;* which was certainly n <> ill-adapted device , or unpromising expedient : and it is the more remarkable , as his ma *

    goodness the blind see * the deaf hear , the dumb speak , the la me walk , the lepers are cleansed , and all sick persons are healed of their infirmities : by whom also alone the gift of healing is given to mankind , and so great a grace , through thine unspeakable goodness towards this realm , is granted unto the kings

    thereof , that by the sole imposition of their hands , a most grievous and filthy disease should be cured : mercifully grant that we may give thee thanks therefore , and for this thy singular benefit conferred on us _ , not to ourselves , but to thy name let us daily give glory ; and let us always so exercise ourselves in

    piety , that we may labour not only diligently to conserve , but every day more and more to encrease thy grace bestowed upon us : and grant that on whose bodies soever we have imposed hands in thy name-, through this thy virtue working in them , and through our ministry * may

    be restored to their former health , and being confirmed therein , may perpetually with us give thanks to thee the chief physician and healer of all diseases ; and that henceforth they may so lead their lives , as not their bodies only from sickness , but their souls also from sin

    may be perfectly purged and cured : through our Lord Jesus Christ thy son , who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost , God world without end . Amen . " The reader will readily perceive that the above office , or formulary was

    entirely of popish manufacture ; the king and whole nation being then Papists 3 but it probably differed not much , if at all , from those used afterwards by our Protestant princes , except in the article pf invoking the firgin Mary and the saints ; in which also consists , seemingly , the chief difference between the Romish

    and English Liturgies : in other respects the resemblance is great and striking ; which is not much to be wondered at , aa the model of the latter is pretty well known to have been taken from the former

    * * Scward * * Anecdotes , i . 38 .

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    jesty was himself so great a lover of money , and appears to have been so exceedingly close-fisted on other occasions . We may therefore be very sure that the conversion of heretics was of the

    highest importance in Henry ' s estimation , and what lay very near to his royal heart . This monarch also , with his queen and eldest son , visited the town of

    Lynn , where he very probably exercised the royal touch , as scro . fulous patients may be supposed to have been then , as they are now , very numerous here , all of whom , as well as the rest of the

    inhabitants , would not fail to give full credit to his majesty ' s ability to remove the malady and restore the partients to perfect health ; and , of course , would be anxious to apply to him , which he would

    not be likely to discourage . As to heretics ^ there might be then none of them here for him to try his royal hand at their conversion . His son and high spirited successor , Henry VIIf , would doubtless be careful Xo continue thfc

    practice of all the rites and ceremonies appertaining to the royal function , which had been handed down to him from his father : and there is every reason to believe that the operation in question

    would not be forgotten or omitted , were it only to be even with his neighbour and rival , Francis J . who certainly performed it , and would not be likely to be suffered

    or allowed to go beyond him on such an occasion . Henry therefore may be safely set down among our said royal practitioners * and even among the most able and powerful of them all . But the Kingfs evil was not the only evil ia wkoflQ cure or femoval h « w «*

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    10 Richards ' * History of the Royal Touch *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/10/