Excerpt from St. Erkenwald (Bishop of London 675-693): An Alliterative Poem, Written About 1386, Narrating a Miracle Wrought by the Bishop in St. Paul's Cathedral So fresh and untouched were both body and garb, it seemed that the burial must have been but of yesterday. Yet no one could find any record thereof in book or in tale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.