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Rh able to extract; others in peril of shipwreck or of drowning in mill dams or in the sea; others afflicted by the plague, by virulent ulcers, by toothache or headache, colic and, in a word, by all manner of diseases only a few of which could be recorded, and whose lot was deplored by their friends and their doctors; others who had fallen from tree tops and the roofs of houses and had thus been almost broken to pieces; those struck by lightning; those burning with St. Anthony's fire, etc. These and numberless other cases of illness and disease received relief through the intercession of the holy King from the hand of God.

But more than this: not only ills of this kind were cured, but in several cases where life itself was extinct, it was restored through the King's intercession before the throne of God. This is attested in the Book of the Saint's miracles in several cases. Amongst others there is cited the case of two innocent men who were hanged at Salisbury and at Cambridge, the truth of which cases is attested by the Bishops of Salisbury, Ely, and Chichester; also there is given the case of a priest whose sight and speech were restored to him. "When," says Harpesfield, "I think of