The.xvi. chapiter

Thauthor sheweth that who soo wold enquere shuld sone fynd that at pylgrymagys bene dayly many gret & vndowted myracles wroght and well knowen. And specyally he speketh of the great & open myracle shewed at our lady of Ippyl wyche of late vppon the doughter of Syr Roger went worthe knyghte.

ANd as for y• poynt y• we spake of concernyng myracles done in our dayes at diuerse imagys where these pylgrymagys be / yet could I tell you some such done so openly / so farre from all cause of suspycyō / and therto testyfyed in such suf[…]ycyent wyse / that he myght seme allmost madde yt her[…]g y• hole mater will mystrust ye miracles. Amonge whych I durste boldelye tell you for one the wōderfull work of god that was wtyn these few yeres wroght in the house of a ryghte worshypfull knyght syr Roger wentworth vppon dyuerse of hys chyldern / and specyally one of hys doughters a very fayr yōge gentyll woman of.xii. yeres of age in maruelouse maner vexyd & turmē […]yd by our gostely ennemy the deuyll / her mynd alienated & rauyng wt dyspisyng and blasphemye of god / and hatered of all halowed thyngꝭ / wyth knowleg and perse[…]uynge of the halowed from the vnhalowed / all were she nothyng warned therof. And after that moued in her owne mynde and moneshed by the wyll of god to goo to oure ladye of Ippyswyche. In the waye of whyche pylgrymage she prophesyed and tolde many thyngys done and sayed at the same tyme ī other placys whyche were proued trew / and many thyngꝭ sayed lyyng in her traunce of such wysoome and letnyng that ryght connyng men hyghly marueyled to here of so yong an vnlernede mayden whan her selfe wyst not what she sayde / such thyngys vttred and spoken as well lerned men myght haue myssed wyth a lōge study, and fynally beyng brought and layed before the ymage of our blessed lady / […]as there ī ye syght of many worshypfull people so greuouslye turmentede / and in face eyene loke & countenaūce so grysely chaunged wyth her mouth drawen asyde / and her eyene leyd oute vppon her chekys yt yt was a terryble syght to behold. And after many maruelouse thyngys at ye sāe tyme shewed vppon dyuers parssones by the deuyll thorow goddys sufferaūce / as well all the remnant as the mayden herself in the presence of all the cūpany restored to theyre goode state perfitely cured & sodēly. And ī thys matter no pretexte of beggyng / no suspycyō of faynyng / no possybylyte of counterfettyng / no symplenesse ī the seers / her father and mother ryght honorable and rych sore abashed to se such chaunces in theyre chylderne / the wytnes / grete noūber / and many of grete worshyp / wysdome and good experyēce / the mayd her self to yong to fayne / and ye fashyon it self to straūge for any man to fayne / And the ende of the matter vertuouse / the vyrgyne so mouyd ī her mynde wt the myracle / that she forthwyth for ought her father could do / forsoke the world and professed relygyon in a very good and godly cumpanye at the mynoresse where she hath lyued well & graciously euer syns.