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Yet this is a difficulty that Mr. Collier has to explain; as the handwritings of the MS. corrections in the Devonshire folio, including those in pencil, vary as already said, from the stiff, upright, labored, and earlier Gothic, to the round text-hand of the nineteenth century.
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The primal evidence of the forgery lies in the ink writing, and in that alone ;[S] but he expressly bases this dictum upon the decisions of the professed palaeographers of the British Museum and the Record Office. He goes on, however, to assign important collateral proof of the forgery, both of the readings in the folio and the documents brought forward by Mr. Collier, by connecting them with each other. Thus he says, that whoever will compare the fac-similes of the document known as
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The Certificate of the Blackfriars Players with those which he gives of two passages in the folio
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[T] He expresses also the same confidence that
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that another important document, known as
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The Blackfriars Petition, was, as Mr. Hamilton believes,
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as that to which we owe the Certificate, and, consequently, the folio readings.[U] Again, with regard to another of these documents, known as
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The Daborne Warrant, Dr. Ingleby says,--
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Mr. Hamilton remarks, what must be plain to every one who compares the fac-simile of the Daborne Warrant with those of the manuscript emendations in the Perkins folio, that the same hand wrote both. In particular the letters E, S, J, and C are formed in the same peculiar pseudo-antique manner. [V] And finally, Mr. Hamilton decides, and Dr. Ingleby concurs with him, that a certain List of Players appended to a letter from the Council to the Lord Mayor, in which Shakespeare's name stands third, is
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which produced the professed contemporary copy of a letter signed H.S. about Burbage and Shakespeare, supposed to be from the Earl of Southampton. Giving his reason for this opinion, Dr. Ingleby says,--
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Among other similarities in the forms of the letters to those characterizing the H.S. letter, is the very remarkable _g_ in 'Hemminges'.