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112. The mother truthfully related the matter as it happened, and confirmed on oath the facts she related as to the miracle, which added to the glory of the illustrious King Henry. Those also who came with her confirmed her statement on oath: namely, John Besy with his wife Alice, the woman Agnes Andrew, who had vowed on the previous day to give as a thanksgiving offering, a sum of money, and very many others."

At another pilgrimage to Windsor it is stated that forty men accompanied a woman whose child was also said to owe its life to the intercession of the King; this miracle had taken place at Rye, in Sussex. "Forty men all worthy of credit," says the account, "testified on oath to the truth of the narrative, coming to the King's tomb in a body during the holy days of Pentecost." It will perhaps be of interest to relate the circumstances of this miracle: "It happened in the aforesaid place of Rye, that a child of hardly seven years, named Margaret, daughter of one John Dyonyse, met with a serious accident. It came about in this wise. On the first day of the Rogations, when the parents were in the Procession, the child was left alone in the house,