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Shakespeare of Stratford

. These notices, discovered by Peter Cunningham in 1842, were branded as ‘unquestionably a modern forgery’ by Halliwell-Phillipps, who however admits that the facts they record are otherwise confirmed and probably true. There is a strong probability at present in favor of the genuineness of the document. The strange spelling (e.g. in Shaxberd) is doubtless owing to the fact that the paper was written by a newly arrived Scot.