VII
THE BOOK OF THE KING'S
MIRACLES
IT has already been pointed out that a contemporary register of the miracles attributed to King Henry VI was kept at Windsor. These records were written in English, and Harpesfield, although he had not seen the original volumes, speaks of having examined a Latin translation made, as he supposed, in view of the process of canonization of the saintly King, which had been commenced by the Roman authorities. It is fairly certain that the Latin translation spoken of by Harpesfield is that which is now among the Royal MSS. in the British Museum. As this volume had belonged to Archbishop Cranmer, many of whose books had formerly been in the Canterbury archives, Harpesfield as Archdeacon of Canterbury, who had access to other records of the See, would no doubt have examined it there.
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