CLEVER FORGER'S HOAX
Shakespeare Galore
By e.m.b
THE year 1704 might have found nothing to talk about but the Revolution across the Channel, but for a certain young lawclerk. This was William Ireland. He had a stock of old parchment, ink which would not have borne chemical analysis, a clever forger's hand and quite unlimited audacity.
He had a good story of a mysterious gentleman whoso manor was packed with everything Shakespearean the world had known and lost awhile, and many things it bad never known. Of course he had, too, some knowledge of Klizabetlian English, and an astonishingly credulous London for all its age of reason.
Love letters, deeds, old plays and new, they poured from William's pen all signed in the ancient hand of another Will. And for two years the world believed ! Boswell knelt and kissed the yellowed parchments in the Ireland
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23139, 10 September 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
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145CLEVER FORGER'S HOAX New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23139, 10 September 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
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