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88 to the new Pope for permission to translate the body of the saintly Henry VI to Westminster. This was again granted in 1504, by which time the Chapel intended to receive the relics was already making progress. Three years later, in 1507, Archbishop Warham and the three Bishops of Winchester, Durham, and London, who had been appointed to make the enquiry into the life and miracles of Henry VI, petitioned Pope Julius II to be allowed to appoint delegates to take the necessary evidence at Windsor and elsewhere. They pleaded that some of the witnesses to be examined in England and in other lands, by reason of their old age and infirmities, were unable to present themselves to give their testimony, and that it was consequently necessary to make provision for their examination. The King of England, Henry VII, also urged this necessity. Wherefore, writes the Pope, in his reply, "We, thinking that it is not right to leave without the due veneration of men, one whom the Almighty has raised to Heaven," grant the faculty asked for, and allow you to appoint worthy prelates to go to