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THE KING'S MIRACLES
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from God, the more these works of charity by the holy King are known."[1]

The Book 0f the Kings Miracles is composed, besides prologues, etc., of four different collections of miracles; each preceded by an index or table of contents. The first set of these miracles contain twenty-eight, with a full and minute description of what had happened and how, together with the dates upon which the events took place in the years 1481–1490[2] The second set gives particulars of sixty-seven miracles, preceded also by an index. It is slated in the prologue to this section, to which reference has already been made, that they are merely a selection from the 300 cases registered in an English book left at Windsor, to which a special number is affixed in each case.[3] The third collection of these wonderful events includes twenty-four of these miracles, and they belong to the period of the first seven years of King Henry VII, that is from 1485 to 1492.[4] Finally, a fourth set gives the particulars, circumstances, and dates of sixteen miracles. An important

  1. B.M. Royal MS. 13, c. viii, fol. 33.
  2. Ibid., fol. 6 seqq.
  3. Ibid., fol. 33 seqq.
  4. Ibid., fol. 86 seqq.