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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 69. 



qu'il y en a peu ou le vraisemblable soit aussl inge- 

 nieiisement et aussi adroitement conserve." 



Win. Taylor, of Norwich, writes to Southey, 

 asking, — 



" Can you tell me who wrote the History of the 

 Sevariimhiayis ? The book is to me curious. Wieland 

 steals from it so often, that it must h.ive been a 

 favourite in his library ; if I had to impute the book 

 by guess, I would fix on Maurice Ashby, the trans- 

 lator of Xenophon's Cyropaidia, as the author." 



to wliich Southey replies, — 



" Of the Sevarambians I know nothing !" (See 

 Gent. Mag. N. S. xxi. p. .355.) 



Sir AV. Scott, in his Memoirs of Swift, p. 304. 

 (edit. 1834), speaking of Gulliver's' Travels, says— 



" A third volume was published by an unblushing 

 forger, as early as 1727, without printer's name, a great 

 part of which is unacknowledged i)lunder from a work 

 entitled Hist, ties Sei-aramhcs, ascribed to INIons. Alletz, 

 suppressed in France and other Catholic kingdoms on 

 account of its deistical opinions." 



It would seem from this, that Sir Walter was 

 not aware of the English work, or knew much of 

 its origin or the author. F. R. A. 



Hi.ttoire des Sevaramhes. — The second edition 

 of Gulliver's Travels, entitled IVaveh into sevei-al 

 Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gidliver, 

 2 vols. 8vo., London, 1727, is accompanied with a 

 spurious third volume, printed at London in the 

 same year, with a similar title-page, but not pro- 

 fessing to be a second edition. This third volume 

 is divided into two juirts : the first part consists, 

 first, of an Introiluction in j)p. 20 ; next, of two 

 chapters, containing a second voyage to Brobding- 

 nag, which are followed by four chapters, con- 

 taining a voyage to Sporunda. The second part 

 consists of six chapters, containing a voyage to 

 Sevarambia, a voyage to IMonatamia, a voyage to 

 Batavia, a voyage to the Cape, and a voyage to 

 England. The whole of the third volume, with 

 tlie exception of the introduction .and the two 

 chapters relating to Brobdingnag, is derived from 

 the Histoire des Seoarambes, either in its English 

 or French version. L. 



TOUCHING FOR THE EVIL. 



(Vol. iii., pp. 42. 93.) 



There is ample evidence that the French monnrchs 

 performed the ceremony of touching tor the evil. 



In a MS. in the University Library, Cam- 

 bridge*, is this memorandum : — 



" The Kings of England and Fraunce by a peculiar 

 guift cure the King's evill by touching them with their 

 handes, and so doth the seaventh sonne. " — Ant. 

 Miruldus, p. 384. 



* Dd. -2. 41. fo. 38 b. 



Fuller intimates that St. Louis was the first 

 king of France who healed tlie evil. " So wit- 

 nesseth Andrew Chasne, a French author, and 



others." * 



Speaking of the illness of Louis XL, " at Forges 

 neere to Chinon," ia March, 1480, Philip de Corn- 

 mines says : 



" After two daies he recovered his speech and his 

 memory after a sort: and because he thought no man 

 understood him so wel as my selfe, his pleasure was 

 that I should alwaies be by him, and he confessed him- 

 selfe to the officiall in my presence, otherwise they 

 would never have understood one another. He had 

 not much to say, for he was shriven not long before, 

 because the Kings of Fraunce use alwaies to confesse 

 themselves when they touch those that be sick of the 

 King's evill, which he never failed to do once a weeke. 

 If other Princes do not the like, they are to blame, for 

 continual! a great numlier are troubled with that 

 disease." f 



Pierre Desrey, in his Great Chronicles of 

 Charles VIII., has the following passage relating 

 to that monarch's proceedings at Hume in January, 

 1494-5 : — 



" Tuesday the 20th, the king heard mass in the 

 French chapel, and afterwards touched and cured many 

 afflicted with the king's evil, to the great astonishment 

 of the Italians who witnessed the miracle." | 



And speaking of the king at isTaples, in April, 

 1495, the same chronicler says : — 



" The 15th of April, the king, after hearing mass 

 in the church of the Annonciada, was confessed, and 

 then touched and cured great numbers that were 

 afllicted with the evil — a disorder that abounded 

 much all over Italy — when the spectators were greatly 

 edified at the powers of such an extraordinary gift. 

 ********* 



" On Easter day, the 19th of April, the king was 

 confessed in the church of St. Peter, adjoining to his 

 lodgings, and then touched for the evila second time." § 



Fuller, in remarking upon the cure of the king's 

 evil by the touch of our English monarchs, ob- 

 serves : — 



" The kings of France share also with those of 

 England in this miraculous cure. And Laurentius 

 reports, that when Francis I., king of France, was 

 kept prisoner in Spain, he, notwithstanding his exile 

 and restraint, daily cured infinite multitudes of people 

 of that disease ; according to this epigram : 



' Hispanos inter sanat rex charadas, estqne 



Captit'us Superis grains, ut ante fuit.' 



' The captive king the evil cures in Spain : 



Dear, as before, he doth to God remain.' 



" So it seemeth his medicinal quality is affixed not 



* Fuller, Church History, edit. 1837, i. 228, 



t Danett's Translation, edit. 1614, p. 203. 



i Monslrelet edit. 1845, ii. 471. 



§ Ibid. 476. 



