. An inquiry into the authenticity of certain miscellaneous papers and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton: illustrated by fac-similes of the genuine hand-writing of that nobleman, and of Her Majesty; a new fac-simile of the hand-writing of Shakspeare, never before exhibited; and other authentic documents: in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. James, Earl of Charlemont. T e^ JirWf^ /J T/T/h r^. fUkk^ aJ-<^*-^^VV^i^««:j XhiRf -vyi^^ u,?^^ /v-^ Uf^e^^ ^C,^ [ >37 ] more especially as the great trouble
. An inquiry into the authenticity of certain miscellaneous papers and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton: illustrated by fac-similes of the genuine hand-writing of that nobleman, and of Her Majesty; a new fac-simile of the hand-writing of Shakspeare, never before exhibited; and other authentic documents: in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. James, Earl of Charlemont. T e^ JirWf^ /J T/T/h r^. fUkk^ aJ-<^*-^^VV^i^««:j XhiRf -vyi^^ u,?^^ /v-^ Uf^e^^ ^C,^ [ >37 ] more especially as the great trouble taken byJohn Heminges in settling and doing muchfor Shakspeare/* was at the Globe Theatre,which I have shewn was not built forsome years after 1589. But we want no aidfrom these minute observations. The wholeis an evident forgery : and the Receiptsigned with the name of John Hemj^nge wasmanifestly done by the same person whohas attempted to exhibit the hand-writing ofLord Southampton.* When I first looked on facsimile in-tended to represent Heminges* hand-writing,though I was not then possessed of his au-tograph, it was manifest from the unsteadi-ness and irregularity of the strokes, that itcould not be the genuine hand-writing ofany one. Dr. Johnson, as some others do,inclined all his letters towards the left, asthe hand-writing of most persons on thecontrary inclines to the right: but no
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