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out of the child's mouth, she suddenly exclaimed: 'O my God! and thou the most blessed King Henry, help me.' These exact circumstances were deposed to on oath by the forty witnesses on the King's tomb at Windsor."[1]

In one part of this volume the author speaks of the immense number of spiritual graces which were obtained by the intercession of the saintly King. Very generally the people turned to him in their difficulties and needs, but such things, says the author, by their very nature and frequency could not be registered. In another part of the book it is stated as a fact that the reputation for sanctity was daily increasing by reason of the many miracles and graces obtained by having recourse to the saintly King's protection. There were some people, of course, who questioned the truth of these wonders, and who even scoffed at them. One instance is recorded in these pages of a man who derided them, and declared his disbelief of all miracles in general. He was, however, converted to the truth by being himself cured of a painful disease through the intercession of the holy King. Half in

  1. B.M. Royal MS. 13, c. viii, fol. 68.