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Rh was condemned to death for a crime of which he was innocent. He appealed to the protection of our Lady and the blessed King, and was saved from execution at the last moment. He made a pilgrimage to the shrine at Windsor and left there the rope, with which he was to have been hanged, as a testimony of his indebtedness to the intercession of the holy King. This man was accompanied to Windsor on this visit of thanksgiving by forty of his fellow townsmen, and they went also afterwards to Walsingham to return thanks to our Blessed Lady.

Finally, to give another instance of the wonders worked by the King shortly after his death, a man named Fuller, of Hammersmith, was condemned to death for having been accidentally in the company of a band of criminals when they were captured. As the King during his life had always been known for his justice, this poor man craved his intercession, and he was ultimately set free. Fuller made a pilgrimage to the tomb of the King when his body was still at Chertsey, and he paid his devotion there on the very day before the body was carried away to Windsor. Subsequently he went to Windsor to thank