Tracts, legal and historical

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larger than it was, in order to appropriate the
more to himself. Hence, it must be confessed,
that the Scots attempted the deception at a cheap
rate ; and certainly with no regard to the conceived
royalty and importance of their prisoner. We are
here unavoidably forced to contrast his treatment
with that of James I., a real monarch, when a cap-
tive in England. The difference is striking, even
as we learn from Mr. Tytler, who says that James
p. 164. I. " was provided with the best masters, treated
with uniform kindness, and waited on with the
honors due to his rank," and the same thing will be
further illustrated in the sequel.
The next notice of Warde, in other words, the
-pseudo Richard, (and which is an original one,) fur-
ther corroborates our theory. On the 29th' of January
1409, Henry IV. conveys to John Edmond, one of
the grooms of his chamber (unus hostiariorum ca-
meras nostra?) a messuage, and eight acres " terras
et prati — in Trumpington qiue fuerunt Johanna
Warde die mortis suae, et in maims nostras occa-
sione forisfacturce Thome Warde Jilii et liceredis
predictcB Johannes devenerunt." It is added, that
the small subject in question was valued in Ex-
chequer at the sum of six shillings and eight pence. 1
Johanna, the mother of the impostor, from her
1 Patent, 9 Hen. IV. part 2, m. 24. From a full copy, oblig-
ingly forwarded by Henry Petrie, Esq. keeper of the Records in
the Tower, to the author upon his application.