was of black say, for Queen Katherine, wife to King Henry VIII.) and the marble grave-stone by.  He found drops on the marble, and there were some cavities, wherein he dipt his finger, and wetted the scab:  in seven days it was perfectly cured.  This accurate and certain information, I had from my worthy friend Elias Ashmole, Esq. who called Mr. Backhouse father, and had this account from his own mouth.  May-Dew is a great dissolvent.

Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King’s hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles ii. into St. James’s Park, he kissed the King’s hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.  Mr. Ashmole told it me.

In the year 1694, there was published,

“A true Relation of the wonderful
Cure of Mary Mallard, (lame almost ever since she was born) on Sunday the
26th of November 1693.”

With the affidavits and certificates of the girl, and several other credible and worthy persons, who knew her both before and since her being cured.  To which is added, a letter from Dr. Welwood, to the Right Honourable the Lady Mayoress, upon that subject.  London:  printed for Richard Baldwin, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane, 1694.

A narrative of the late extraordinary cure, wrought in an instant upon Mrs. Elizabeth Savage, (lame from her birth) without using of any natural means.

With the affidavits which were made before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor; and the certificates of several credible persons, who knew her both before and since her cure.

Enquired into with all its circumstances, by noted divines both of the church of England, and others:  and by eminent physicians of the college:  and many persons of quality, who have expressed their full satisfaction.

With an appendix, attempting to prove, that miracles are not ceased.  London, printed for John Dunton at the Raven, and John Harris at the Harrow, in the Poultry.  The London divines would have my annotations of these two maids expunged.*

” This Eliza Savage is still lame.  It seems my Lord Mayor of London and Ministers may be imposed on.”  MS. Note in a copy of the first edition in the Library of the Royal Society.

MAGICK.

In Barbary are wizards, who do smear their hands with some black ointment,and then do hold them up to the sun, and in a short time you shall see delineated in that black stuff, the likeness of what you desire to have an answer of.  It was desired to know, whether a ship was in safety, or no? there appeared in the woman’s hand the perfect lineaments of a ship under sail.  This Mr. W. Cl. a merchant of London, who was factor there several years, protested to me, that he did see.  He is a person worthy of belief.

A parallel method to this is used in England, by putting the white of a new laid egg in a beer glass, and expose it to the sun in hot weather, as August, when the sun is in Leo, and they will perceive their husband’s profession.