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70 these wonders, I seem to see him [King Henry VI] again on his royal throne, no less powerful than of old or less desirous of administering justice than when he was vested with his royal power." To take one or two other instances: a girl named Agnes Freeman in Kent was seriously attacked by the King's evil, which was considered to be incurable. Her friends urged that she should be taken to King Richard, who then occupied the throne; but her parents, following better advice, implored the assistance of King Henry, vowing to make a pilgrimage to his tomb. Directly the vow was made a change for the better took place, and in three or four days she was perfectly cured.

In another part of his History Harpesfield records how, at the execution of an innocent man, the blessed King Henry appeared and prevented the rope, by which he was being hanged, from strangling him; and this man lived to thank God for the grace given him through the saintly King. The author also notes that after death, Henry often appeared to suppliants in corporal form, vested in his royal robes. In one case a certain Richard Boys, of West Harptree, five miles or so from Bath,