His grace the Duke of Monmouth honoured in his progress in the west of England in an account of a most extraordinary cure of the kings evil given in a letter from Crookhorn in the county of Somerset from the minister of the parish and many others. Clark, Henry, 17th cent. 1680 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A33265 Wing C4456 ESTC R39371 18389711 ocm 18389711 107444 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession. 2006-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-08 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-09 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2006-09 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion HIS GRACE The Duke of Monmouth Honoured in His PROGRESS In the WEST of ENGLAND IN AN ACCOUNT Of a most Extraordinary CVRE OF The Kings Evil : Given in a Letter from Crookhorn in the County of Somerset from the MINISTER of the Parish and many others . VVE whose Names are under-witten , do certifie the truth of a Miraculous Cure of a Girl of this Town of about Twenty years Age by Name Elizabeth Parcet , a poor Widows Daughter , who hath anguished under the sad afflicted Distemper of the Kings Evil , Termed the Joint Evil , being said to be the worst Evil for about Ten or Eleven years time , she had in her right hand Four runing wounds , viz. One in the inside , and three on the Back of her hand , and two more in the same arm , one above her handwrest , the other above the bending of her Arm , She had betwixt her Arm-pit and Brest , ( a bunch ) which the Docters said fed those six several Runing Wounds ; the said Distemper was likewise on her Left eye , insomuch she was almost blind ; her Mother despairing for the preserving her sight , and being not of ability to send her to London , to be touched by the King , being miserable Poor having many small Children , and this Girl not being able to work , her Mother desirous to have her Daughter cured , saught to the Chirurgions for help who tamper'd with it for a time , but could do no good ; went likewise 10 or 11 Miles , to a Seventh Son , but all in vain ; no visible hopes of a Cure remained , and expected nothing but the Grave . But now , in this the Girls great extremity . God the great Physitian Dictates unto her , thus Languishing in her miserable , hopeless condition ; what course to take , and what to do for a Cure , which was to go and touch the Duke of Monmouth ; which the Girl told her Mother that if she could but touch the Duke she should be well , her Mother reproved her for her foolish conceit , but the Girl did often perswade her Mother that she might go to Lackinton to the Duke , who then lay at Mr. Speaks , for certainly said she I should be well if I could but touch him ; her Mother slighted the pressing requests of her Daughter , and the more her Mother slighted it and reproved her , the more earnest was the Girl for it ; in few days after the Girl having notice that Sir John Syd●nham intended to Treat the Duke at white Lodg in Henton-Park , which this Girl with many of her Neighbours went to the said Park ; she being there timely waited the Dukes coming : First , she observed the Person of the D. to have knowledg of him as he was passing into the said Lodg , she prest in among a Crowd of People , and caught him by the hand , his Glove being on , and she had a Glove likewise to cover her wounds , she not being herewith satisfied with this first attempt of touching his Glove only , but her mind was , she must touch some part of his bare skin ; she weighting his coming forth , intended a second attempt : the poor Girl , thus betwixt hope and fear waited his motion , on a sudden was news of the D. coming on , which she to be prepared , rent off her Glove that was clung to the Sores in such hast , that broke her Glove , and brought a way not only the sores , but the skin : the Dukes Glove , as providence would have it , the upper part hung down so that his hand-wrest was bare ; she prest one and caught him by the bare hand-wrest with her running hand ; ( saying , God bless your Greatness ; and the Duke said God bless you ) the Girl was not a little transported with her good success , came and told her friends that now she should be well , she came home to her Mother with great joy , and told her she had that touched by the Dukes bare hand ( and that she should now be well ) her Mother hearing what she had done , reproved her very sharply for her boldness , and asked her how she durst do such a thing , and threatned to beat her for it , she cryed out O Mother I shall be well again , and be cured of my wounds ; and as God Almighty the great Physitian would have it , to the admiration of all that know of it , or heard of it . Her six running wounds in her hand and arm , in four or five days were dried up , the bunch in her brest was dissolved in eight or ten days , of which now is no sign : her eye that was given for lost , is now perfectly well , and the Girl in good health ; the marks of her several wounds are yet visible in her hand and arm , all which has been discovered to us both by Mother and Daughter , and Neighbours that know her . Henry Clark Minister of the Parish , Captain James Bale , Captain Richard Sherlock , John Stacky Clerk , William Pike , Samuel Daubeney , G●orge Strong , John Greenway , Robert Chislet . Whoever doubts the truth of this relation , may be satisfied thereof by sight of the Original under the hands of the Persons before mentioned , at the Amsterdam Coffe-House in Bartholomew Lane near the Royal Exchange . LONDON ; Printed for Benjamin Harris at the Stationers Arms in the Piazza under the Royal Exchange in Cornhil . 1680.