An exact relation of the wonderful cure of Mary Maillard (now wife of the Revd Mr. Henry Briel) who was lame for the first thirteen years of her life: and the manner in which she was instantly healed, without the use of any humane application, after a cure was esteemed impossible by the best judges. With several affidavitts before the Rt Honourable the Lord Mayor, and exhibitions on oath in the Consistory Court of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London, as well as sundry certificates / Together with the testimonies of several living witnesses respecting the fame. Also a letter from Dr. Wellwood to the Lady Mayoress on this subject. With the reflections on the whole.

Date:
1730
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Credit: An exact relation of the wonderful cure of Mary Maillard (now wife of the Revd Mr. Henry Briel) who was lame for the first thirteen years of her life: and the manner in which she was instantly healed, without the use of any humane application, after a cure was esteemed impossible by the best judges. With several affidavitts before the Rt Honourable the Lord Mayor, and exhibitions on oath in the Consistory Court of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London, as well as sundry certificates / Together with the testimonies of several living witnesses respecting the fame. Also a letter from Dr. Wellwood to the Lady Mayoress on this subject. With the reflections on the whole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he was furprized, and thought fomething cxtfaor- dinary was the matter 5 but when he came up to¬ ward the Door, one and another among the Neigh¬ bours, who were got about, met him, and wilh’d him joy of his Daughter’s miraculous Cure. And upon his coming into the Shop, and feeing me go upright, he was fo overcome with Surprize, as to burft out into an excellive Weeping, which was fo loud, as to be heard out into the Street* This (till increafed the number of People about the Houle. Mrs. Laulan carried me home again with her that Day, and kept me a Fortnight 5 but Crouds came fo thick to fee me, that flic was de- lirous I fhould be at my Father’s Houfe, where Multitudes of all Ages, and both Sexes, came to fee me 5 and the Houfe was fo crouded, that I had hardly time to eat. A few Weeks before I was cured, as I was crof- fing St. James s Square, I was overtaken by a Butcher’s Girl carrying a Joint of Meat in a 1 ray, who walked juft before me, and mocked me, by endeavouring to go lame as I did 5 which very much affefted and grieved me, and though I crol¬ led the Way to avoid her, flic eroded again, and went before me, mocking me, on purpofe that 1 might fee her, which very much {hock’d me 5 ar laid I call’d out, Ton Girl, come hither, and laid to her, If it pleafes God, he can make me Whole, and make you as lam. This gave her a little Check, and fhe feemed dafh’d at it, and went away. Among the Crouds that came to fee me, were feveral Butchers Wives, and this Girl along with them, who, as fhe came up the Stairs to go into the Chamber where I was, law me before I faw B her.