Tracts, legal and historical

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fool and an ideot ; next, that in 1409, the small pro-
perty of " Thomas Warde in Trumpington? owing
to his forfeiture, is given to a person apparently in
the same rank with himself, by a grant in which he is
not said to be dead ; — in 1 415, " Thomas of Trump-
ington? is explicitly shewn to have been an " ideot?
capable of personifying Richard, — and still resi-
dent in Scotland — where, under the appellation of
the Scottish impostor, he obviously figures in 1417,
as will be seen in the sequel. Now, in addition to
all this, when we have the statement of the Scottish
Winton, a cotemporary, upon whom too, Mr. Tytler
places such great reliance, and who had no access to
English records or authorities, that the Scottish
Richard was crazed, 1 while he also questions his
royalty, 2 can we, under these circumstances, enter-
tain a doubt of the identity of the latter with Warde
— especially when there is not a tittle of evidence, or
even plausible surmise, to shake or rebut them ?
It is humbly conceived that the point is established
1 Winton gives this account of the nondescript: —
" Of Devotion nane he wes, Book IX.
And seildyn will had to here mes, ch. xx.
As he bare hym like wes he *' *"*> etc "
Oft half wod, or ivyld to be."
Dr. Jamieson intimates, that one is said to be " vvud," (the
same as " wod,") who is outrageous, in a state of insanity ; and
then he renders " a wod dog," one that has the hydrophobia.
See his Dictionary, sub liac voce.
2 " Quethir he had bene king, or nane Ibid.
Tliare wes hot few, that wyst certane." 1. 194-5.