shillings.  It had a hole bored through it, through which a ribbon was drawn, and the angel was hanged about the patient’s neck till the cure was perfected.  The stamp has the impression of St. Michael the Archangel on one side, and a ship in full sail on the other.  “My Lord Anglesey had a daughter cured of the King’s evil with three others on Tuesday.”—­Ms. Letter of William Greenhill to Lady Bacon, dated December 31st, 1629, preserved at Audley End.  Charles ii. “touched” before he came to the throne.  “It is certain that the King hath very often touched the sick, as well at Breda, where he touched 260 from Saturday the 17 of April to Sunday the 23 of May, as at Bruges and Bruxels, during the residence he made there; and the English assure . . . it was not without success, since it was the experience that drew thither every day, a great number of those diseased even from the most remote provinces of Germany.”—­Sir William Lower’s Relation of the Voiage and Residence which Charles the ii. hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, p. 78.  Sir William Lower gives a long account of the touching for the evil by Charles before the Restoration.]

With my Lord, to my Lord Frezendorfe’s, where he dined to-day.  Where he told me that he had obtained a promise of the Clerk of the Acts place for me, at which I was glad.  Met with Mr. Chetwind, and dined with him at Hargrave’s, the Cornchandler, in St. Martin’s Lane, where a good dinner, where he showed me some good pictures, and an instrument he called an Angelique.

[An angelique is described as a species of guitar in Murray’s “New English Dictionary,” and this passage from the Diary is given as a quotation.  The word appears as angelot in Phillips’s “English Dictionary” (1678), and is used in Browning’s “Sordello,” as a “plaything of page or girl.”]

With him to London, changing all my Dutch money at Backwell’s

[Alderman Edward Backwell, an eminent banker and goldsmith, who is frequently mentioned in the Diary.  His shop was in Lombard Street.  He was ruined by the closing of the Exchequer by Charles ii. in 1672.  The crown then owed him L295,994 16s. 6d., in lieu of which the King gave him an annuity of L17,759 13s. 8d.  Backwell retired into Holland after the closing of the Exchequer, and died there in 1679.  See Hilton Price’s “Handbook of London Bankers,” 1876.]

for English, and then to Cardinal’s Cap, where he and the City Remembrancer who paid for all.  Back to Westminster, where my Lord was, and discoursed with him awhile about his family affairs.  So he went away, I home and wrote letters into the country, and to bed.