The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . he should be given meat anddrink. There then abode he in that chapelfor three weeks with two women toguard him, one French, the otherEnglish. But when the Englishwoman saw that he began to getback his strength, she betook her-self to murmur against him, andwould have given him to an Eng-lishman to be his prisoner. But theFrench woman told him this andbade find some remède, or theywould send for him and make himprisoner. Thereon Pierre so wroughtthat he found means whereby Reg-nault Guillaume and his companyheard that they should seek him in
The miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois; . he should be given meat anddrink. There then abode he in that chapelfor three weeks with two women toguard him, one French, the otherEnglish. But when the Englishwoman saw that he began to getback his strength, she betook her-self to murmur against him, andwould have given him to an Eng-lishman to be his prisoner. But theFrench woman told him this andbade find some remède, or theywould send for him and make himprisoner. Thereon Pierre so wroughtthat he found means whereby Reg-nault Guillaume and his companyheard that they should seek him inthe said chapel, and they carried 123 Miracles of Saint Katherine him away- Thus escaped Pierre duFons out of the hand of his enemiesby grace of God, and prayer of theglorious virgin, Madame Saint Kath-erine. AU of this the said Pierrehath sworn to be true by the faithof his body, in presence of messireEichard Kyrthrizian, Brother GillesLecourt, warder of the chapel, Je-han Bredur, priest, Loys Forest,Robert Cornabel, and others. 124 THE YEAR 1437. JS the twenty-thirdday of May, in theyear one thousandfour hundred andthirty-seven, camehither Marguerite de Mounay, anative of Normandy, and wife of agentleman named Gilbert de Fre-nay, who also came hither with hiswife. The said Marguerite had beenprisoner in the town of Frenay leVicomte, where she was held aspledge for her husbands lay she for five years and fivemonths in irons, bound with an iron 125 Miracles of Saint Katherine chain, and fastened in a yoke, dayand night, because her husbandcould not pay the great monies thatwere demanded of him. She, then, as one out of all com-fort, beholding that there was nonewho had pity on her, rememberedher of the fair miracles daily done inthe chapel in this place. So madeshe her vow to God, and the VirginMary, and to Madame Saint Kath-erine, that never would she drinkwine till she had made pilgrimageto the said chapel, if by any meansshe might escape. And on the nightafter s
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