Among other advantages which he reaped from this turn of mind, it tended much to cure him of credulity of which the following instance is given by Sir Thomas More.

There was a man who pretended that, though he was born blind, he had recovered his sight by touching the shrine of St.Albans.
The duke, happening soon after to pass that way, questioned the man, and seeming to doubt of his sight, asked him the colors of several cloaks, worn by persons of his retinue.

The man told them very readily.

"You are a knave," cried the prince; "had you been born blind, you could not so soon have learned to distinguish colors;" and immediately ordered him to be set in the stocks as an impostor.[**] * Fabian, Chron.

anno 1447.
** Grafton, p.