_Wardlaw_ (_Henry of_), archbishop of St. Andrew’s.--Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.). =Wardle= (_Mr._), an old country gentleman, who had attended some of the meetings of “The Pickwick Club,” and felt a liking for Mr. Pickwick and his three friends, whom he occasionally entertained at his house. _Miss_ [_Isabella_] _Wardle_, daughter of Mr. Wardle. She marries Augustus Snodgrass, M.P.C. _Miss Emily Wardle_, daughter of Mr. Wardle. She marries Mr. Trundle.--C. Dickens, _The Pickwick Papers_ (1836). =Wardour= (_Sir Arthur_), of Knockwinnock Castle. _Isabella Wardour_, daughter of Sir Arthur. She marries Lord Geraldin. _Captain Reginald Wardour_, son of Sir Arthur. He is in the army. _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 Into the hands of that relentlesse prior Calde Gilbert Hoode, uncle of Huntington. Skelton, _Downfall of Robert, earl of Huntington_ (Henry VIII.). =Warming-Pan Hero= (_The_), James Francis Edward Stuart (the first Pretender). According to the absurd story set afloat by the disaffected at the time of his birth, he was not the son of Mary d’Este, the wife of James II., but a natural child of that monarch by Mary Beatrice, of Modena, and he had been conveyed to the royal bed in a warming-pan, with the intention of palming him off upon the British people as the legitimate heir to the throne.