[2] When she was about nine, her family moved to the Huguenot area of London to escape persecution in France.

On 26 November 1693, it was a Sunday, and Maillard was reading the Bible when she found that she was no longer lame.

[1] The physician James Wellwood wrote a letter to Elizabeth Ashurst, who was the lady mayoress, concerning her case, and it was published in London in 1694.

Wellwood noted that the atheists and enthusiasts could decide their approach easily, but he found it difficult to take a side on this happening that was "above the road of nature".

[1] Over the next couple of years, there were other remarkable cures reported of young girls, and each case involved reading the Bible which was published.