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CULTUS AND POPULAR DEVOTION
TO THE SAINTLY KING HENRY
ALMOST immediately after the death of King Henry there was manifested a popular belief in his sanctity and in the many miracles wrought at his tomb. It has already been pointed out that images of the King were set up in cathedrals like York and Ripon and in numerous parish churches throughout England. In his interesting article in the Dublin Review (January 1921) Mr. Leonard Smith has collected many instances of this form of public veneration. At Algood, in Lincolnshire, he writes, there was a bequest to King Henry's Light which, presumably, burned before an image of the King; at Gately and at Barton Turf, in Norfolk, this image stood upon the rood screen. Eye Church, in Suffolk, possessed a painted portrait of the King in a royal mantle, with a large sceptre in his right hand, his head
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