Value of these pieces was some 5 shillings so very few would have survived the Under Charles II, in 1684 the size of the gold touch-pieces were reduced Touching Ceremonies were scheduled weekly,Īlthough never when the weather was warm. Touched no less than 12,000 a year during his short reign. The Ticket-Token were collected and re-issued King himself and hopefully left as a cured individual. You gave your Ticket-Pass in at the door,Įntered the ceremony, got touched by the king, received your gold coin from the Issued with an official Ticket-Pass to admit them to the ceremony. Was suffering from this extremely unpleasant disease – if James II could cureĪttended these ceremonies and physically handed the touch-piece to each and every Views seemed to have mattered very little to the average man in the street who Interestingly, his ultimately toxic religious Time), so James was never short of participants. It is estimated that 1% of the London population suffered during this Again, the new touch-pieces were the work of Used the left over Charles II gold pieces – some 1,905 of them. Reign, and it must be noted that for the first months of touching, he actually Clearly James II had an extremely short-lived Number of sick being brought to him being as much as 14,364 in one year. Kings, James was actually more prolific in his touching, the Initiated the design of St George and the dragon on subsequent Touchingīrother, King Charles II, was an enthusiastic believer in the divine right of Interestingly, although somewhat disinclinedĭue to an unwillingness to mingle with the common man, it was Henry who All subsequent monarchs took some part in theĬeremony (William & Mary refused because William was not of English royalĭecent) although Henry VIII was the most reluctant. Sufferers of Scrofula (Tuberculosis) – dating as far back as Henry II. Monarchy was seen very much as a physical, tangible extension of God) healing An ancient practice – that of The Devine (the Touch-Piece: Guaranteed to have been personally touched by King James II. once lightly cleaned, now with a reddish tone. King standing in his ship, mullet by sword arm, broken annulet on the Henry V and some of the earlier coinage of Henry VI. Gold under Richard II and Henry IV, a miniscule quantity of farthings under It cost almost 1/5th of all the revenue collected in England to maintain Calais as an EnglishĪfter really only producing limited coinage under Edward III, a tiny amount of Vanity statement for the English monarchs in their claim on the French crown. The town of Calais in what is now Northern France was under English ruleįrom 1347 until 7 January 1558, being a bit of a Isladulcie 44, Schneider 1-115, North 1281, Spink 7.63 grams, 5h, initial mark cross pattee. Class II, Calais mint, voided quatrefoil beforeĪRD’DI GRA REX AnGL + FRAnC DnS hIB + AQVIT. : 25 x 19 cm Physical_item 120 Ppi 360 Republisher_date 20210809162910 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1504 Scandate 20210802144654 Scanner Scanningcenter tt_numismatic Tts_version 4.The ACTUAL listings pages which, unlike this, are kept bang up to date): OL24809354W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 32.89 Pages 78 Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Physical_description 38 p. Date_code 19750618 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier catalogueofengli00gle_a71 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9q362m9b Invoice 1217 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.7674 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary_edition You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. However, for this Item, either no rightsholder(s) have been identified or one or more rightsholder(s) have been identified but none have been located. Addeddate 21:03:38 Ans_id 56907 Call number Glendining 19750618 Camera Nikon J4 Cataloging_source NNAN Copyright_notice This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights.
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