 From 1633, the Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Church contained a ceremony for this, and it was traditional for the monarch (king or queen) to present to the touched person a coin—usually an angel, a gold coin the value of which varied from about 6 shillings to about 10 shillings.In England this practice continued until the early 18th century, and was continued by the Jacobite pretenders until the extinction of the House of Stuart with the death of the pretender Henry IX.King Henry IV of France is reported as often touching and healing as many as 1,500 individuals at a time.Queen Anne touched the infant Samuel Johnson in 1712, but King George I put an end to the practice as being "too Catholic".