I had no suche relyques at home. Me. Oh a wycked
desyre & an euyl thought Ogy. I graunt, and
therefore I axyd, forgyfnes of saynt Thomas before
I remouyd one fote, to departe out of the church.
After || thes thus we were brought in to ye reuestry,
o good lorde what a goodly syght was ther of vestmetes
of veluet & clothe of golde, what a some of candlestykes
of gold? We sawe ther saynt Thomas crosse staffe,
ther was see also a rede ouerlayed with syluer, it
was but of a smalle wyght, vnwrought, nor no longer
then wold retch vnto a mans mydgle. Me. Was
ther no crosse? Ogy. I sawe none at all, ther
was shewed vs a robe of sylke treuly, but sowed with
cowrse threde, garnysshyd with nother gold nor stone.
Ther was also a napkyn full of swette blody, wher
with saynt Thomas wypyd bothe hys nose and hys face,
these thynges as monumetes of auncyent sobernes we
kyssed gladely. Me. Be not these thynges showed
to euery body? Ogy. No for sothe good syr.
Me. How happened it that you were in so good
credens, that no || secret thynges were hyd frome you?
Ogy. I was well acquyntede with the reuerende
father Gwylyame warham the archbyshope. He wrote
.ij. or .iij. wordes in my fauour. Me. I here
of many that he is a ma of syngler humanite. Ogy.
But rather thou woldest call hym humanite it selfe
if thou dydest well know hym. For ther is in
hym soche lernynge, so vertuouse lyffe, soche purenes
of maneres, that a ma cowld wyshe no gyfte of a parfayte
Byshope in him, that he hathe nat. Frome thens
afterward we were ladde to greater thynges. For
behynde the hyghe aultre, we ascedyd as it were in
to a nother new churche, ther was shewed vs in a chapell
the face of the blessed man ouergylted and with many
precyous stones goodly garnysshed. A soden chaunse
here had almost marred the matter and put vs out of
conceyte. Me. I tary || to knowe what euyl
chaunse yow wyll speke of. Ogy. Here my companyo
Gratia gote hym lytle fauoure, for he, after we had
mad an ende of praynge, inquyred of hym that sate
by the hede, herke, he seyd, good father, is it true
that I here, that saynt Thomas whyl he it lyued was
mercyfull toward ye poer people? That is very
true saythe he, and he bega to tell greatly of his
liberalyte and compassyon that he shewede to the poer
and nedy. Then sayd Gratia: I thynke that
affection and good mynd in him not to be chaungyde,
but that it is now moche better. Unto this graunted
ye keper of the hede, agayn sayd he, then in as moche
as thys holy man was so gratyouse vnto ye poer, whan
he was yet poer, & he hym selfe had nede of monay
for ye necessarys of hys body, thynke ye nat that
he wold be contet, now that he is so ryche, and also
nedethe || nothynge, that if a poer woma hauynge at
home chylderne lakynge mete and drynke, or els doughters
beynge in danger to lose ther virginite, for defaute
of ther substaunce to mary them with, or hauynge her
husbande sore syke, and destitute of all helpe, in


