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 altar, and there he was set down on his feet, and was made perfectly whole to ride or go whither he would. But the king would in no wise have this miracle ascribed to him; but gave to him a reward and bade him to go to Rome and thank God and his holy apostle S. Peter.

In old time King Ethelbert, which reigned in Kent, and Sigbert in Middlesex, were converted to the faith of Christ by S. Austin. Which Ethelbert made in London, within the city, a noble and royal church in the honour of S. Paul, in which S. Austin ordained S. Mellitus to be bishop of that city. Which king was not satisfied with that good deed, but thought and also did do make another church in the west end of the city, which then was called Thorney, and now is named Westminster, which church he prayed Mellitus for to hallow in the honour of S. Peter. And the night before that he had purposed to hallow it, S. Peter appeared to a fisher in Thames, and bade him set him over from Stangate to Westminster, and he prayed the fisher to abide him there till he came again, and he would well reward him for his labour. And soon after the fisher saw S. Peter enter into the church with a great light, which light endured as long as he was in the church. And a certain space after, he returned to the fisher asking him if he had any meat to eat, and the fisher was so greatly abashed of the light that issued out of the church with him, that he durst not speak to him. To whom S. Peter said: 'Brother, dread thee not, I am a man as thou art; hast thou any fish?' And he said: 'Nay, for I have awaited on you all this night while ye have