Then were there well fifteen thousand men baptized, without women and children, and the king did do make a church there of our Lady and of St. George, in the which yet sourdeth a fountain of living water, which healeth sick people that drink thereof.  After this the king offered to St. George as much money as there might be numbered, but he refused all and commanded that it should be given to poor people for God’s sake; and enjoined the king four things, that is, that he should have charge of the churches, and that he should honor the priests and hear their service diligently, and that he should have pity on the poor people, and after, kissed the king and departed.

Now it happed that in the time of Diocletian and Maximian, which were emperors, was so great persecution of Christian men that within a month were martyred well twenty-two thousand, and therefore they had so great dread that some renied and forsook God and did sacrifice to the idols.  When St. George saw this, he left the habit of a knight and sold all that he had, and gave it to the poor, and took the habit of a Christian man, and went into the middle of the Paynims and began to cry:  All the gods of the Paynims and Gentiles be devils, my God made the heavens and is very God.  Then said the provost to him:  Of what presumption cometh this to thee, that thou sayest that our gods be devils?  And say to us what thou art and what is thy name.  He answered anon and said:  I am named George, I am a gentleman, a knight of Cappadocia, and have left all for to serve the God of heaven.  Then the provost enforced himself to draw him unto his faith by fair words, and when he might not bring him thereto he did do raise him on a gibbet; and so must beat him with great staves and broches of iron, that his body was all tobroken in pieces.  And after he did do take brands of iron and join them to his sides, and his bowels which then appeared he did do frot with salt, and so sent him into prison, but our Lord appeared to him the same night with great light and comforted him much sweetly.  And by this great consolation he took to him so good heart that he doubted no torment that they might make him suffer.  Then, when Dacian the provost saw that he might not surmount him, he called his enchanter and said to him:  I see that these Christian people doubt not our torments.  The enchanter bound himself, upon his head to be smitten off, if he overcame not his crafts.  Then he did take strong venom and meddled it with wine, and made invocation of the names of his false gods, and gave it to St. George to drink.  St. George took it and made the sign of the cross on it, and anon drank it without grieving him any thing.  Then the enchanter made it more stronger than it was tofore of venom, and gave it him to drink, and it grieved him nothing.  When the enchanter saw that, he kneeled down at the feet of St. George and prayed him that he would make him Christian.  And when Dacian knew that he was become Christian he made to smite off his head.