Chapter 26

Of a dumb boy.

ALSO a boy who for a long time had been dumb, to the praise of the glorious apostle the goodness of God opened his mouth and tongue, and thenceforward he spoke aright.

 

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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