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has evidently been refuted ; — but even admitting
the imposture, if the body could be exhibited in the
way stated, not only at Poinfret and other places,
but at Saint Paul's, without detection, it surely might
as safely have been risked at Westminster, during
the brief ceremonial of the burial. This might have
been accomplished with but little address, by con-
cealing the corpse as before in some sort of enve-
lope, — and certainly with the greatest facility, if, as
Mr. Tytler tells us, there was, on this occasion, the
substitution of the body of Maudelain, who was as
like Richard as one parallel line to another. Accor-
ding to the learned gentleman, Maudelain not only
bore an " extraordinary likeness to the King," but p. 345.
even " so exactly resembled good King Richard in
face and person, in form and in speech, that every p. 347.
one who saw him, certified and declared that he was
the old King ;" — nay, he impresses upon us, that he
" resembled him so completely in face and person,
that it is said the likeness might have deceived any p 34i.
one"' Why, such being the fact, as Mr. Tytler is
at pains to shew, the body might have been display-
ed at Westminster, quite naked, for that matter ; —
where, it may be asked, could there have been a
chance of discovery, in the case of such co-identities ?
They might have been exhibited in their natural
state, for the edification of pious catholics, as memo-
rials of mortality on the festival of All Souls, with-
out a mortal knowing the difference ; and how were
things to be better managed, when, at a certain in-
c