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Auction: 19022 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 2054

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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Estimate
£200 to £250