The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . went freeand the said Bressin remained as ahostage for both. Now the other was 84 ^ Miracles of Saint Katherine to return and bring back a ransomfor both of them. But he returnednot, nor came nor sent. Thereforethe said Bressin lay in prison for thespace of seventeen weeks. Then he,being in great heaviness, remem-bered him of the Virgin Mary, andof Madame Saint Katherine of Fier-boys, to whom he made his his vow being done and hisorison, straightway the EngHshstruck off his irons, and set him freeout of the ditch. Thereon he de-part
The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . went freeand the said Bressin remained as ahostage for both. Now the other was 84 ^ Miracles of Saint Katherine to return and bring back a ransomfor both of them. But he returnednot, nor came nor sent. Thereforethe said Bressin lay in prison for thespace of seventeen weeks. Then he,being in great heaviness, remem-bered him of the Virgin Mary, andof Madame Saint Katherine of Fier-boys, to whom he made his his vow being done and hisorison, straightway the EngHshstruck off his irons, and set him freeout of the ditch. Thereon he de-parted from them and escaped outof their hands, and went away with-out ransom, no man harming him. And the said Bressin firmly be-heves that he would never haveescaped, save for the intercession of 85 Miracles of Saint Katherine the Virgin Mary and Madame SaintKatherine. And that this is true he has swornby the faith of his body, in the pres-ence of Messire Kyrthrizien, wardenof the said chapel, of Messire JehanBredar, and several other persons. s^ XII. THE YEAE 1423 HE eleventh day ofJune, in the year onethousand four hun-dred and twenty-three, Jehan de Pons,of the parish of Masuet in Berry,came into the chapel here to accom-plish his vow. He had been takenon the sixth day of the said month,by Scots, in the country of Berry, ashe was hunting partridges on the saidsixth day of June, in a field of wheat,and had with him seven laborers,and all seven were taken with himby the said Scots, who had been 87 Miracles of Saint Katherine robbed in that country by the Scots led all eight of themto an oak tree and there hanged theseven to the said oak tree, that theydied. Then remained the said Jehanthe last to be hanged, because he hadprayed for this grace in Gods nameto him that took him, to this end,that he might have time and spaceto pray Gods mercy and pardon. There saw he all these sevenhanged and strangled before hiseyes. Therefore made he his vow de-voutly to Madame Saint
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