Autographs Healing Gold 1685 (9 January) order from Henry Guy Secretary to the Treasury, to Sir Robert Howard, Auditor of the Receipt, to pay sums of £2500 for the Keeper of the Privy Purse "to complete a quarter", £500 ditto "for healing gold", £200 ditto "for Sir Thomas Sands", £200 ditto "for Mr. Foliard" out of a loan of £50,000 from Alderman Charles Duncombe. Signed "Hen: Guy". With address panel on the reverse, fine. Photo Healing gold, or gold touch-pieces, were used during popular ceremonies held in the Banqueting House of the Palace of Whitehall during Charles II's reign to cure Scrofula, or the "King's Evil".
Autographs Healing Gold 1685 (9 January) order from Henry Guy Secretary to the Treasury, to Sir Robert Howard, Auditor of the Receipt, to pay sums of £2500 for the Keeper of the Privy Purse "to complete a quarter", £500 ditto "for healing gold", £200 ditto "for Sir Thomas Sands", £200 ditto "for Mr. Foliard" out of a loan of £50,000 from Alderman Charles Duncombe. Signed "Hen: Guy". With address panel on the reverse, fine. Photo Healing gold, or gold touch-pieces, were used during popular ceremonies held in the Banqueting House of the Palace of Whitehall during Charles II's reign to cure Scrofula, or the "King's Evil".
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