The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . ou-sand four hundredand twenty-one, Guil-laume Guy, a squire, native of Piregort, was taken by theEnglish at Eogemont in the Beauce,between Acheres and Blevies, whocarried him into the Fauxbourgs ofPontoyse, and held him to ransomat fifty crowns of gold, which ran-som they bade him pay or releasetwo English prisoners. Then putthey him endlong in a barrel, andshut him up therein, and above laid 80 Miracles of Saint Katherine two great tables, and an Englishmanlay on the tables- In the night the squire vowed himto Madame Saint Katherine, pray
The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . ou-sand four hundredand twenty-one, Guil-laume Guy, a squire, native of Piregort, was taken by theEnglish at Eogemont in the Beauce,between Acheres and Blevies, whocarried him into the Fauxbourgs ofPontoyse, and held him to ransomat fifty crowns of gold, which ran-som they bade him pay or releasetwo English prisoners. Then putthey him endlong in a barrel, andshut him up therein, and above laid 80 Miracles of Saint Katherine two great tables, and an Englishmanlay on the tables- In the night the squire vowed himto Madame Saint Katherine, prayingher to pray God to deliver him. Andabout midnight he found the tablesscattered apart, one above, one be-low, and the Englishman sleeping onthe ground. Then came he forth ofthe barrel, and escaped safe andsound, by grace of God and of Ma-dame Saint Katherine ; as also re-port Thomas Eouvallet, squire,Jehan Fardeau, and ClementTEvesque, all of the fellowship ofAlain Giron, who have said andsworn on oath that these things aretrue. 8111 THE YEAR 1423. fmT^^mii.^i^?sB3 HE twenty-fourth ofthe month of April,in the year one thou-sand four hundred andtwenty-three, therecame into the chapel here one namedPerrin Gougeaut, of the parish ofSaint Germain de Eelez, who hadbeen taken by Burgundians the Sun-day before, in the evening aboutsunset. There were seven Burgun-dians at his taking, who took alongwith him another man called Nori-cete Girart, and bound them andcoupled them together, and espe- 82 Miracles of Saint Katherine cîally the said Perrin was boundwith four ropes right straitly. Thenmade they their vows to MadameSaint Katherine of Fierboys. Andinstantly their vows being made,they found themselves all unboundbefore the very eyes of the Burgun-dians, who wrought them no harmnor annoy. Then went they and laid themdown in a wood, and there slept,and so escaped. That this is true the said Perrinhas sworn by the faith of his body,with these present, Guillaume Talle-bot, Perrin Bria
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