Note 300a — HISTORY OF LYNN, PART II. (continued 2)

Nor does it appear that it belonged exclusively to certain christian potentates; for, long before there were any such, it had been ascribed to the pagan emperors Vespasian and Hadrian, who are said, by their touch, to have restored sight to the blind; and the fact seems as well established as any of the accounts of cures effected by the touch of our christian and English monarchs.