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How certaine Theeues who had stolne a Cow neere to S. We∣nefrids Chappell, and driuen her through Rocky wayes, were notwithstanding tra∣ced by her footesteps in the hard stones miraculously im∣printed, and so enforced to leaue her to the Owners pur∣suing them.
ANother Miracle, no lesse wonderfull then the former hapned in this manner. Certaine Theeues
hauing stolne a Cow, out of a pasture neere to S. VVe∣nefrids Chappell, & driuen her through Rocky high wayes, that they might not by her footing be traced, it fell out far otherwise: for the Cow trod not one steppe, but as if she had gone in durty deepe wayes, wherby her footing, and the theues also themselues, so plainely appeared, that the owner & his Neighbours, the next morning missing the beast, did very easily see which way she was driuen.
Whereupon they fol∣lowing the tracke with all speed, came so neere to o∣uertake the Theeues, that they were constreyned in great feare to fly away, and leaue the Cow behind them to their pursuers. VVho at better leasure afterwardes considering how the Cowes feet had miraculously made prints in the hard stones as she was driuen away, but not as she returned, percea ued it to be an euident mi∣racle, and for such, to the honour of S. VVenefride, by 〈2 pages missing〉〈2 pages missing〉
king-trade, to abstayne like∣wise from theft, especially out of any place, neere to the Saintes Chappels.