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his temptations. Whereupon it happened that not only secretly 
but also openly the whole (enemy) proceeded against him, 
waging with him a visible conflict. And because the assaults 
of the foe were day by day grievous to him to bear, and he suffered 
lack of water at his table, wandering round the neighbouring 
places, not far from his abode, towards the west, he discovered 
in the valley a spring, beside which he made himself a hut and 
built an oratory in honour of God and the Blessed Mary’; and 
there having finished the struggle of his life laudably in the 
service of God, he passed happily from the prison of his body 
to the Lord. (So) now also that memorable event so well known 
to our fathers which about those times in this place God deigned 
to manifest, with His help, I will set forth. 
There was one Uthlagus, a very renowned man, frequenting 
those parts, on account of the passage of those going and coming 
between Nottingham and Derby through the forest. For at 
that time the whole country between the bridge of Derby and 
the water of Irrawysa*® was forest. Accordingly. this Uthlagus 
when on one day in summer time he sat down upon Lyndrik,? 
which is the hill beyond the gate of our monastery towards the 
west, a heavy sleep fell upon him. And whilst he slept he sees 
in his dreams a golden cross standing in the place where our 
Church is now founded, whose top touched the heavens ; while 
the extremities of the arms reached on either side to the ends of 
the earth; from the greatness of whose splendour the whole 
world shone brightly. He sees, moreover, men of divers nations 
of people coming and adoring that cross most devoutly. The 
man being aroused, and waking from his sleep, having called 
together his companions, told them the vision revealed to him 
by the Lord; and he added and said, “ Truly, most beloved, 
this vale which ye behold below us, and _ which lies 
touching this hill, is a holy place. Truly,” he said, “the Lord 
is in this place and I knew it not. Children which shall be born 
and grow up, shall narrate té their children the great and wonderful 
things which the Lord will perform in that vale. That vale,” 
said he, ‘‘shall be white with the flowers of virtues and full of 
