...charter. (Appendix, No. I. p. 367, postea.) Brady troduction, has printed the charter of 5 David II., p< granted in his full Parliament at Holy Rood House...ignorance and the boldness of the author of the forgery. We collect from Hardyng's verses, that in like manner he produced and delivered the homages performed...

...are forgeries ; the seals, where they exist, are either of dubious authenticity or palpably false. 'The language, the expressions, the dates, the general...in a character not properly belonging to any age or times.' M The documents numbered 7 and 8 were presumably genuine copies, which Hardyng may have recovered....

...that the documents, the majority of which are still preserved in the Record Office, were forged. ' The language, the expressions, the dates, the general tenor, all bespeak the forgery.' 4 Their concoction affords some proof of Hardyng's antiquarian knowledge and skill, but 1 Cal. Pat....

...looked strange to the nineteenth-century scholar Francis Palgrave who described the writing as being 'in a character not properly belonging to any age or time'." And there are other peculiarities about the documents. The preconquest charter in which King Malcolm of...

...ten surviving Hardyng documents in the Public Record Office. Palgrave declared that their falsity was 'most apparent': '[t]he language, the expressions,...tenor, — all bespeak the forgery'. The writing, he went on, was 'in a character not properly belonging to any age or time', and the incongruous armorial...