Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

The Difficulty of Proof

2 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

The Difficulty of Proof

In such a case as that before us the difficulty of proof is almost insuperable. But fortunately we are dealing with a point not of law but…

The Difficulty of Proof: Elizabeth

The story runs that on Elizabeth's accession or under circumstances antecedent to it all who were in the secret and still remained were…

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