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Rh been the Abbey's parishioner. On 5th March 1498 judgement was accordingly given by the Privy Council in favour of the Abbot of Westminster in the presence of the King, and in July following, an Indenture was drawn up between the King and George Fawcett, Abbot of Westminster, whereby the Abbot, the Prior, and the Convent bound themselves to pay the sum of five hundred pounds, by three yearly instalments, towards the expenses of the translation of the body from Windsor to Westminster. This sum was in fact paid, as the accounts of John Islip, Sacrist of Westminster, for 1501 prove." Meanwhile steps had been taken to supply the Commission charged by Alexander VI with the examination of the cause, with a body of evidence relating to the miracles alleged to have been worked at Henry's intercession. At a date not much later than the close of the year 1500, a manuscript translation into Latin of two books of miracles of King Henry VI already existing in English was made by an unknown writer at the request of Dean Morgan of Windsor. The writer implies that this compilation of four separate collections of miracles,