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had been held in high veneration during her life-time , through some cause connected with the turbur lence of the age , the place o ( hex sepulture was forgotten , and remained unknown , till the year
1100 , when it was accidentally discovered . The particulars of this fortunate event are given by
William of Malmsbury , in a passage which I shall insert below * , and which Cressy , in his Church History , thus translates . " St . JVlilburga rests at Wenlock : In ancient times her memory was celebrated by the inhabitants , but
after the comingin of the Normans , by reason that the place of her sepulcher was unknown , she became forgotten , JBut of late a convent of Ciuny Monks having been established there , whilst they were busy in erecting the fabrick
of a new church , a certain child , running earnestly over the
pavement , the vault of her sepulcher brok under him , by which means the body of the holy virgin was
? Milburga apud Weneloch requiescit , olim ab accolis nota , sed post adventum Norm an nor um , dum nescitur locus sepulchri , aliquandiu oblivioni data . Nuper vcro adunato ibi conventu monachorum Cluniacensium , dum inchoata novi templi machina , quidampuer per payimentum consitatus cursitaret , effracta mausolei fovea , propalam corpus virginis fecit : turic balsa mi ci odoris aura per ecclesiam spirante altius leva .
t urn tot rqiracula praebuit ut catervatim eo populorum unde confluerunt . Vix patuli campi capiebant agtnina viatorum , dum aequfs umbonibus dives et mendicus 8 e . agerent , cunctos in commune pracipitante fide . N « c caasum eventum res habuit , adco ut nullus inde nisi extincta vel mitigata valetudinc discederet , nonnullosq . regius morbus , medicis « ane > incurabiHs , per rnerita Virginia
re-Hnqueret % — . Williel . 5 Malmesb . in Scriptores He . An . po ^ t © eda m , Firancof . i 6 oi , pa fi c 89 .
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discovered . Which being taken up , a most odoriferous vapour , as of a most precious balsam , perfumed the whole church : and
such a world of miracles were wrought by her intercession , that wonderful multitudes flocked thither , both rich and poor , in so much , as there was scarce room in the
open fields to receive them , so strong a faith they had to find remedy there for . their maladies . Neither did they fail of their ex . pectation 5 for none departed away without a cure , or at least a miti - gation of their diseases , and
particularly the king ' s evil , incurable by Physicians , was , through the merits of the holy virgin , healed perfectly in several persons . " — Cressy ' s Church History , ZiA . xvii . cap . 18 .
On referring to the original , your learned readers will perceive that the whole of this translation is very loose and paraphrastic , but I shall object to its accuracy only in one particular , where Cressy
appears to me to have mistaken his author , and that is , in rendering regius morbusy king ' s evil . It is true , indeed , that Celsus has used the words to denote scrofula , which was called the king ' s-evil , from the mode of its cure , by the touch
of a royal han < l , as has been well related by the Historian of Lynn , with whose interesting account you have obliged your readers , [ viii . 5 . 91 m 232 . ] But the slightest reflection must shew , that the historian meant to designate here , not
a malady cured by royalty , for that would not in this instance have distinguished one complaint from the other , but some malady of which royalty was cured . It were greajtly to be wished , that he had been more specific in describing
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Miraculous Cures by the Corpse of St * Milburg . 3 & 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/7/
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