A proper accurate distinction was not made; and they are all said to be written and subscribed.

A late writer, Mr.Goodall, has endeavored to prove that these letters clash with chronology, and that the queen was not in the places mentioned in the letters on the days there assigned.

To confirm this, he produces charters and other deeds signed by the queen, where the date and place do not agree with the letters.

But it is well known, that the date of charters, and such like grants, is no proof of the real day on which they were signed by the sovereign.

Papers of that kind commonly pass through different offices.
The date is affixed by the first office, and may precede very long the day of the signature.
The account given by Morton of the manner in which the papers came into his hands, is very natural.