A sceptical eye on Touching the King’s Evil

My 19th-century “blogger” Miss Frances Williams Wynn is today being the historian, exploring changing accounts of the practice of the monarch “curing the sick” over time.

She describes discussing analysis of the whys and wherefores with her brother – although later members of the family have a very gentry “‘huntin’ and fishin’ and shootin'” reputation, this generation was definitely hooked into the intellectual currents.

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