How the dust of that place preuailed against fyre.
The. 10. Chap.
AT that tyme a certayne other trauailer came out of Bri∣taine, as the brute is making his iourney ner to that same place, wherin the forsaid battaile was fought. Vewing the place he espied one plat more greene and pleasanter to the eye then was the residue of the field. Wherof he gessed the cause should be that in that place some one man holyer then the rest of the armie had ben slayne. Therfore he toke awaie withe him some of the dust of that earth, knitting it vp in a lynnen cloth, and demyng with him selue, as in dede it came after to passe, that the same dust might be medicinable for sicke per∣sons. This man ryding on his iourney came that euening to a certaine village, where taking vpp his inne, and finding the neighbours of the parish at feast with the ofte, being required sate down also with thē at the banket hanging vpon on of the postes of the wal, the linnen cloth with the dust, which he had brought. The feast and chere encresing, cuppes walking apase, the gestes with mirth so far forgott thē selues, that a great fier in the middes of the house being made, the sparkles flying vp aloft, and euery man intending to mirth, the roufe of the hou¦se being made but with slender twigges and thatched, was so∣denly sett all on a light fyre. Wherat the gestes being disama∣ied rāne al out of dores, not able to saue the poore house being now all on fyer and ready to consume. To come to the purpo¦se, the whole house being consumed with this fyre, that post a∣lone wheron the dust hanged, (inclosed in a cloth) continued, safe from the fyre, and therwith not hurt at al. At the sight of this miracle al maruailed much and with diligent enquire and examination founde out that this dust came from that place