Book Two - Chapter 24

Of a certain little boy that was mad.

AFTER the octave of the same festival a certain little boy was brought by his mother to the same church. He had lost all sense of reason since the day of the festival of the blessed Laurence the Martyr, and on account of his madness, from which he suffered terribly, was even to his mother herself burdensome and past bearing with, and, as she said, he had been carried round to many places of the saints already, but had nowhere obtained any cure. Now when his mother had brought him to the aforesaid place and had kept holy vigil there, she earned and obtained the granting of her pious petition from the most godly apostle of Christ, and she secured joy for herself and health for her boy, and she showed him sound to all the people on the following Lord's Day.

 

The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew's, Smithfield Rendered into Modern English from the original Latin version preserved in the British Museum, numbered Vespasian B. IX, by Mr. Humphrey H. King and Mr. William Barnard for use in the Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory by E.A. Webb.

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