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Rh mockery he had said that he would himself vow to go on pilgrimage to the King's tomb if he were freed from his sufferings. God showed him this mercy through the intercession of King Henry, and he went as he had promised to Windsor to return thanks for his own cure and there made a declaration on oath of the circumstances, before M. H. Seymour, one of the canons of the royal collegiate establishment.

There are many very astonishing cures given in the volume; here it must suffice to give some few notes, taken almost at haphazard, from its pages. At a place called Reyton, in Rutlandshire, a small child, the son of a man named John Hargrave, about fifteen months old, fell into the fire. It happened that on the feast of St. Hugh both parents went to attend the vespers of the day in the parish church, leaving the infant alone in the house, not taking care to set a guard round the fire which was burning on the hearth. When alone, by some means the child fell backwards with his head in the burning embers. Unable to help himself the little John had all his hair and the skin of his head burned off; and when his parents returned the whole house was