Highways and byways in Surrey . one of the four had muchmore than the country bumpkins natural desire to see theKing and be able to talk about it afterwards ; perhaps theycoveted the little gold tokens which royal physicking hunground the sufferers neck. Not all those who were touchedfor the Evil were languishing with a fell disease. Charles IIoperated on nearly a hundred thousand of his lieges, withinstant success when there was nothing the matter with Anne, the divines held, did not succeed directly to thethrone, and therefore did not succeed to the miraculous powersof the Jameses a
Highways and byways in Surrey . one of the four had muchmore than the country bumpkins natural desire to see theKing and be able to talk about it afterwards ; perhaps theycoveted the little gold tokens which royal physicking hunground the sufferers neck. Not all those who were touchedfor the Evil were languishing with a fell disease. Charles IIoperated on nearly a hundred thousand of his lieges, withinstant success when there was nothing the matter with Anne, the divines held, did not succeed directly to thethrone, and therefore did not succeed to the miraculous powersof the Jameses and Charleses. It was very little good forJames Napper to go to London, for, practically speaking, thequeen could cure nobody. Alfold, which in Aubreys day was Awfold—variant i66 FRENCH GLASS MEN spellinj,^s of old fold—was not always purely rustic andagricultural. There is a slab of Sussex marble in the church-yard which is declared to cover the remains of the last of theSurrey glass manufacturers—the French glass men who. A Surrey Byzvay. are supposed to have carried on an illicit factory in thedepths of Sidney Wood. Another Alfold industry wassmuggling, or assistant-smuggling. The gentlemen rantheir tobacco and brandy by way of some of the Alfold XIV CHIDDINGFOLD GREEN 167 farm-houses; the farmer left out bread and beef forthe gentlemen, and the gentlemen left kegs behind for thefarmer. Sidney Wood lies between Alfold and Dunsfold, and growshazel and oak for various industries, besides acres of thepurest and palest primroses. Through it runs a curioustrackway, marked disused on the Ordnance maps. It is asection of the Wey and Arun Junction Canal, now a dry bedstudded with hazel stubs and clumps of flowers. Duns-fold Common joins the wood, and beyond it, round a widegreen, stand the Dunsfold cottages, seventeenth century mixedwith twentieth. In the churchyard, when I was there in May,I once saw a curious sight. From inside the church thegreat yew seemed to be alive with
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