IN TWO VOLUMES 

VOL. II 

CONTENTS 

SECTION IV 

WILLIAM'S ACCOUNT OF THE MIRACLES 

CHAPTER I 

HIS FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS 

§ 1. His object. § 2. Visions, § 3. The folly of impatience and of trusting in physicians ; the injustice of the Irish war. § 4. Vows to St. Thomas must be paid ; physicians must be despised. § 5. Emma of Halberton and Godelief of Laleham. § 6. Revivification. § 7. Leprosy. § 8. Chapels are to be built to St Thomas 3

CHAPTER II 

HIS THIRD, FOURTH, AND FIFTH BOOKS. OR THE DEGENERATION OF THE MIRACLES 

§ 1. Degenerate miracles. § 2. Miracles for the King's sake. § 3. Chance ; losing and finding. § 4. St. Denis and St. Thomas ; "the divine gift of dumbness." §5. A man of many miracles. § 6. The evils of business ; St. Thomas's object in. receiving money. § 7. St. Thomas will not interfere with the Archbishop of York. § 8. Credulity and incredulity. § 9. The Water of Canterbury is changed to milk. § la Revivification of a sucking-pig ; of a gander. § 11. A babe sings **K3rrie Eleison"; a dead pilgrim, thrown overboard, comes back for his berth. § 12. St. Thomas orders prayers for Fitzurse. § 13. St. Thomas supports a man on the gallows. § 14. Bird-miracles. § 15. "Fatuous antiquity"; a story in Virgilian prose. § 16. A man of blood, a devotee of St. Thomas. § 17. Restoration of one struck by lightning 24 

CHAPTER III 

HIS LAST BOOK AND APPENDIX 

§ 1. St. Thomas's eggs. § 2. Mad Gerard of Liege. § 3. Crossing Marlow bridge. § 4. Richard of Reading is cured of fits. § 5. Restoration of mutilated members. § 6. A pilgrim is brought to life to die in peace. § 7. A Templar's dream ; cure of the Earl of Warrenne. § 8. An unattested wonder. § 9. Weighty evidence from John of Salisbury. § 10. "Festive" miracles. §11. St. Thomas forgives a reproachful pilgrim. § 12. Responsibilities of "a saint in vogue." § 13. Distant cures unknown ; revivifications. § 14. A historical digression. § 15. William degenerates still more. § 16. Evidence of date. § 17. The consequences of finding an ancient mortuary vessel. § 18. Miracles from Sefrid the ecstatic. § 19. William oscillates between credulity and incredulity. § 20. William decides to accept the statements of rich people. § 21. William becomes slightly cynical. § 22. A married priest. § 23. Wiscard, the King's falcon. § 24. A starling invokes St. Thomas ; miracles worked for a hospital at Shooter's Hill. § 25. St. Thomas at Devizes. § 26. St. Thomas among friends. § 27. The Saracen of Palermo. § 28. St. Thomas kills a cow. § 29. St. 'Thomas revivifies a cow. § 30 Miscellanea. § 31. A story cut short. § 32. Comic verses Page 45 

SECTION V 

THE PARALLEL MIRACLES1 

§ 1. Sir Thomas of Etton is miraculously visited with quinsy and miraculously cured. § 2. (i.) Eilward of Westoning in Bedfordshire, mutilated for theft, is miraculously restored ; (ii.) a similar miracle recorded by William alone ; (iii.) a similar miracle recorded by Benedict alone; (iv.) suggestion of partial explanation. § 3. The ship that came back by herselfi § 4. How St. 'Thomas pushed a ship off a shoal. § 5. Recovery of anchors. § 6. How the son of Yngelrann of Golton was visited with paralysis by the Martyr and then healed. § 7. Jordan, son of Eisulf. § 8. Cecily, daughter of Jordan of Plumstead, is restored, when supposed to have died of cancer. § 9. The son of Hugh Scot is restored after drowning. § 10. Elias, a monk of Reading, after [pretending to] resort to Bath for the cure of leprosy, is cured by St. Thomas. § 11. Queen Eleanor's foundling. § 12. Geoffrey, a monk of Reading, is restored, when in extremity. § 13. Deliverance from the fall of a wall. § 14. Miracles wrought on James, son of the Earl of Clare. § 15. The cure of Hugh of Ebblinghem, a leper ; William adds another. § 16. 

1 With Latin renderings. 

William of Gloucester is saved from a fall of earth. § 17. Salerna of Iheld, having thrown herself into a well, is preserved from death. § 18. John of Roxburgh is saved from the Tweed Page 76 

SECTION VI 

LEGENDARY ACCOUNTS OF MIRACLES 

CHAPTER I 

LEGENDS RECORDED BY AUTHORITATIVE WRITERS 

§ 1. St. Thomas's hsh. § 2. The Vision at Pontigny, (i.) the statements. § 3. The Vision at Pontigny, (ii.) the silence of Anon. I., commonly called "Roger of Pontigny." § 4. The vision at Pontigny, (iii.) all evidence from Pontigny to be regarded with suspicion. § 5. The Vision at Pontigny, (iv.) the probable facts. § 6. The Vision at Pontigny, (v. ) the growth of legend 274 

CHAPTER II 

LEGENDS RECORDED BY NON-AUTHORITATIVE WRITERS 

§ 1. Giraldus Cambrensis and Grandison. § 2. Pseudo-Grim. § 3. Poetic legends. § 4. Poetry and Romance. § 5. Oral Tradition the source of early legend. § 6. Prevalence of legend inevitable unless contradicted by history 285 

SECTION VII 

INFERENCES FROM THE MIRACLES 

CHAPTER I 

THE GOOD AND EVIL OF THE MIRACLES 

§ 1. The evil. § 2. The good. § 3. Did the miracles result from the man or from the circumstances ? § 4. St. Thomas a true Saint, though militant 296 

CHAPTER II 

THE MARTYR AND THE SAVIOUR 

§ 1. The parallel between them. § 2. The parallel in facts. § 3. The parallel in documents. § 4. Its bearing on New Testament criticism 305