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THE KING'S MIRACLES
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as having welcomed the pilgrims to Windsor, when they came to return thanks for graces obtained by their recourse to the King's intercession. He took from them their testimony as to facts and dates and more than once himself joined in their thanksgivings in the Church. The Latin translator tells us that the Windsor book of the miracles was sent to him by the hands of a friend of Dean Morgan, and the date of beginning the work of turning the English into Latin and making the selection would have been some time before 1496, when John Morgan was made Bishop of St. David's. In the course of translating, the monk records the change by speaking of Morgan as formerly Dean, now Bishop, of St. David's. It is useful here to note that besides the testimony of these miracles actually set down in this book, there is clear evidence in these records of the devotion to the saintly King which existed in all parts of England. These wonders are worked in all parts of the land. In Northumberland and Durham, in Sussex and Wales, etc., they are certified as having taken place at various times. It is apparent, and there is no room for doubting, that the English people very generally