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68 Henry. From the far western parts of England and from the extreme north of the country, not to speak of places which are near at hand, there came bands of pilgrims proclaiming aloud the help which they had obtained from this holy King."

The author then goes on to picture the number of the pilgrims who flocked to the shrine at Windsor. He speaks at length of cures of all sorts worked by Henry's intercession, of the freedom obtained from all manner of troubles, and of relief from misfortune of every kind obtained at his tomb. It is quite impossible, he declares, to set down all the numberless, and marvellous cures effected in a few years by this wonder worker. They are so many and so various that a mere list would be lengthy and difficult to compile, if not beyond human power and industry. The blind, the lame, the dumb, the deaf, lunatics, and those possessed by evil spirits obtained relief. People injured by the unexpected falling of earth upon them, etc. Others suffering from wounds beyond the cure of doctors and surgeons; others suffocating by bones, etc., which had lodged in their throats and which no human skill had been