CHAPTER [V]
[Footnote 1:] A great many other tales are told of the miraculous phenomena exhibited by the body of St. Edmund, which well illustrate the superstitious credulity of those times. One writer says seriously that, when the head was found, a wolf had it, holding it carefully in his paws, with all the gentleness and care that the most faithful dog would manifest in guarding a trust committed to him by his master. This wolf followed the funeral procession to the tomb where the body was deposited, and then disappeared. The head joined itself to the body again where it had been severed, leaving only a purple line to mark the place of separation.]
(Old English font is available here: [http://www.] uk-genealogy.org.uk/resources/).]
CHAPTER [VI]
[Footnote 1:] "Here rests the body of Ethelred, king of West Saxony, the Martyr, who died by the hands of the pagan Danes, in the year of our Lord 871.">[
CHAPTER [VII]
[Footnote 1:] For an account of Henrietta's adventures and sufferings at Exeter, see the History of Charles II., chap. iii]