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There seems to be no record of any healing during this 
visit, which terminated on the 7th October, Windsor being 
reached on the 9th. The charges for “lodgings and goods” 
during this stay amounted to £439 4s. 6d., being £418 6s. 6d. 
actually expended and £20 18s. fees to the Treasurer at 12d. in 
the pound. The Cupbearer in ordinary received for his travelling 
expenses, at 10s. per day, £27. A gentleman of the Chapel 
Royal, at 3s. per day, £8 2s. The Carver in ordinary, at 10s. per 
day, and the Server in ordinary at the same rate, each £27 ; and 
_ Dr. Edward Haines, Principal Physician, at 15s. per day, £40 10s. 
_ Time now brings the question—When or on what day exactly 
_-was the last public touching? and this I think is here noted for 
the first time. In the Gazette, 1714, it is announced that it 
was Her Majesty’s intention to touch publicly on Tuesday, the 
2nd March, and so to continue for a time. This was followed in 
the Gazette of May 1st by another notice that Her Majesty 
would discontinue touching for that season. The last public 
touching was therefore on the Tuesday before this announcement, 
_ and this would be the 27th April, 1714. 
The Queen died on the Ist August, 1714, and the practice has 
_ been discontinued by our present Royalty. But the claimants to 
the Crown of George I. claimed also this divine power, although 
they had no opportunity of showing it. There is one case 
recorded however, which happens to be that of a Somerset man, 
and which is presumably the very last which occurred. News- 
: 
‘papers have now come upon the scene, and this is told in the 
“General Evening Post of 7th January, 1748. Carte, in his 
History of England, gives the story as a fact, as supporting the 
Pretender, but so strong was now the feeling against it that the 
‘narrative destroyed the credit of his work and stopped its com- 
pletion. Christopher Lovell was a native of Wells, a labourer, 
who going to Bristol, got work at “turning the wheel for the 
_ pewterers.” He became extremely afflicted and a miserable 
he having tried all remedies in vain. Eventually his uncle, 
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