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64 proofs," he says, "I would easily believe them, because of the exceptional virtues he displayed in his life. His father, Henry V, was indeed honoured by all posterity by reason of his great deeds, but much greater and much more celebrated was his son [Henry VI], if only by reason of the wonders worked by his intercession after his death. After his abominable murder, he was buried in the Benedictine monastery of Chertsey, and there, after a few years, he became renowned throughout England for the great miracles wrought at his tomb. So, whether for this reason, or through the guilty conscience of him by whose advice and even by whose hand he was murdered, or, as I readily believe, by divine inspiration Richard [III] caused the body of the blessed King to be transferred to Windsor. And, although he was known already for many and great miracles, after his body had been transferred to the place of his birth, his fame for these wonders increased in such a marvellous way, that hardly a day passed without someone coming to render thanks to him for some cure, which had been considered to be beyond human help, from which he had suffered or been burdened, and from which he