Rebuttal of Smith

Notes and Queries, ccxliii, 1996, 307

‘EDMUND IRONSIDE: SCHOLARSHIP VERSUS PROPAGANDA’ (N&Q ccxl (1995), 294-9). - I can confute (a) all Professor Smith’s imputations about my alleged bad faith, and (b) the thirty-five-year antedatings of 2 Henry VI 1623 and Richard III 1623 on which he relies for his repeated assertions [1] that “Ironside is not by Shakespeare”.

ERIC SAMS

Sanderstead, Surrey

[1] M. W. A. Smith, ‘Edmund Ironside: Scholarship versus Propaganda’, N&Q, ccxl (1995), 295; ‘Edmund Ironside’, N&Q, ccxxxviii (1993), 204.