Sir Richard Wardour or “Richard with the Red Hand,” an ancestor of Sir Arthur.--Sir W. Scott, The Antiquary (time, George III.).
Ware (Bed of), a great bed, twelve feet square, assigned by tradition to the earl of Warwick, the “king maker.”
A mighty large bed [the bed of honor], bigger by half than the great bed of Ware; ten thousand people may lie in it together and never feel one another.--G. Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer (1707).
The bed of Og, king of Bashan, which was fourteen feet long, and a little more than six feet wide, was considerably smaller than the great bed of Ware.
His bedstead was a bedstead of iron ... nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.--Deut. iii. 11.
Waring (Sir Walter), a justice of the peace, whose knowledge of the law was derived from Matthew Medley, his factotum. His sentences were justices’ justice, influenced by prejudice and personal feeling. An ugly old hag would have found from him but scant mercy, while a pretty girl could hardly do wrong in Sir Walter’s code of law.--Sir H. B. Dudley, The Woodman (1771).
Warman, steward of Robin Hood, while earl of Huntingdon. He betrayed his master into the hands of Gilbert Hoode (or Hood), a prior, Robin’s uncle. King John rewarded Warman for this treachery by appointing him high sheriff of Nottingham.
The ill-fac’d miser, bribed on either hand,
Is Warman, one the steward of his house,
Who, Judas-like, betraies his liberall lord