King Richard will be impatient.
King Richard rode hither and thither, cheering his men and fighting his foes.
But it is more likely, as suggested by Richard Chandler (Life of Waynflete, 1811), that it was some Yorkist attack on him in progress in the papal court, to meet which he appointed next day 19 proctors to act for him.
The micrometer so mentioned fell into the possession of Richard Townley of Lancashire, who exhibited it at the meeting of the Royal Society held on the 25th of July 1667.
The story was followed closely in its main outlines by Richard Wagner in his opera Lohengrin.
