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    bther witness , he should apprehend it a delusion of his senses . Then they spake of the boy who was pretended to have a wanting leg *' restor ed him , so confidently asserted by Fr , de Ste Clara and others . To all which the

    Bishop added a great miracle happening in Winchester , to his certaine knowledge , of a poor , miserably sick and decrepit child , ( as I remember

    long kept unbaptiz * d , ) who irnmediately on his baptism recover ed , as also of y salutary effect of K . Charles , his Majesty s fathers blood , in heeding one that was blind . " I . 608 .

    Mr * Evelyn adds in a note , that his companion , Mr . Pepys , told him that being in Spain he had offered a considerable reward to a " saludadov" to perform the oven feat , upon which the Wonder-worker confessed the cheat ;

    " yet , " says the Diarist , " have these imposters an allowance of y bishops to practice their juglings . " He adds , u This Mr . Pepys affirmed to me , but , said he , / did not conceive it fit to interrupt his Majesty * who so solemnly told what they pretended to do . "

    Encouraged by the superstition of the Bishop of Winchester , James proceeds to talk more confidently of mi * raculous cures by means of relics , and he relates that his brother Charles had , at the time of his death , a piece of the true cress in his pocket .

    " Afterwards his Majesty spoke of some reliques that had effected strange cures , particularly a piece of our BI . Saviour ' Crosse , that heal'd a gentleman ' s rotten nose by onely touching ; and speaking of the golden crosse and chaine taken out of the

    coffin of St . Edward the Confessor , at Westm by one of the singing men , who , as the scaffolds were taking down after his Ma * ' * , coronation , espying a hole in the tomb , and something glisten , put his hand in , and brought

    it to the Deane , and he to the King ; his Ma . began to put the Bishop in mind how earnestly the late King ( his brother ) call'd upon him , during his agonie to take out what he had in his pocket . 1 had thought , said

    the King , it had ben for some keys , which might lead to some cabinet that his Ma would have me secure 5 but , says he , you well remember that I found nothing in any of his pockets but a crosse of gold , and a few insignificant papers ; and thereupon he

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    shewM us the crosse , and was pleasM to put it into my hand . It was of gold , about three inches long , having on one side a crucifix enameird and emboss ed , the rest was grav'd and garnistfd with goldsmith ' s work , and

    two pretty broad table aniethists , ( as I conceiv'd , ) and at the bottom a pendant pearle ; within was inchas'd a little fragment , as was thought , of the true Crosse , and a Latine in scription in gold and Roman letters . '* f . 609 .

    A few pages onwards , Evelyn relates a conversation between James and Mr . Pepys , which settles the question of the religion ( if the word can be used with regard to such a man ) of Charles II . He masy and died , a Roman Catholic . In our Xth

    Volume , pp . 2 £ 4—226 , may be seen the no-longer-disputed narrative of the Popish ceremonies performed at his bed-side , when he was dying . " This familiar discourse encourag'd Mr . Pepys to beg of his Ma ^ , if he might ask it without offence , and for that his Ma ^ could not but observe

    how it was whisper'd among many , whether his late Ma ^ had been reconciled toy Church of Rdme ; he againe humbly besought his Ma to pardon his presumption if he had touched upon a thing which did uot befit him to looke ijito : the King ingenuously told him that he both was , and died , a

    Roman Catholict and that he had not long since declar ed it was upon some politic and state reasons , best known to himselfe , ( meaning the King his brother , ) but that he was of that persuasion : he bid him follow him into

    his closet , where opening a cabinet , be shew'd him two papers , containing about a quarter of a sheete , on , both sides written , in the late King ' s owne hand , severall arguments opposite to the doctrine of the Church of England , charging her with heresy , novelty &nd y fanaticism of other Protestants , the cheif whereon was , as I remember ,

    our refusing to acknowledge the Primacy and Infallibility of the Church of Rome ; how impossible it was that

    * There is a pamphlet giving an account of this finding ' , and presenting to the King , under tlie name of George Taylour ; but his name was Henry Keepe . See Cough ' s , Topography . " Evelyn's Editor .

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    15 $ Anecdotes of Charles II . and James II ., from Evelyn . 1 N ¦

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/22/