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THE KING'S MIRACLES
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day, another from a village in Northamptonshire was testified to by a great number of the villagers " who had themselves seen the wonder " and had vowed to return thanks to God at the tomb at Windsor. On the rumour that these two big pilgrimages had come, it is said that " all who heard about them ran to the church, where the masler of the clerks began to sing the praises of God, Who deigned to give such power and honour to his valiant soldier, King Henry, the Dean of Windsor himself intoning the Te Deum Laudamus, which was sung by the great concourse of people."[1]

In the case of the first of these two miracles, which had taken place at Sheppey, a large number of the neighbours of the parents, whose child had been run over by a waggon and was thought to have been killed, came with the mother to return thanks. She and they had walked all the way to Windsor: she had come barefooted. There, as the account says, " before the Reverend Dean, John Morgan (who now, when the Latin translation of the narrative was made, rules the church of Menevia as its Pastor Venerabilis) and his canons and clerks all gathered together capitu-

  1. B.M. Royal MS. 13, c. viii, fol. 77.