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From: "David Webb" <>
Subject: Re: Mortimer book
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:31:30 GMT
References: <BAY11-F15rS0WEc6emT0001739d@hotmail.com>


I don't think Ian Mortimer is gospel either. I was just incensed to read an
email equating my question in the newsgroup to "Elvis is alive" fantasies...


""John Parsons"" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Thank you, Leo. You are, as always, the voice of reason.
>
> John P.
>
>
> >From: "Leo van de Pas" <>
> >To:
> >Subject: Re: Roger Mortimer: Ian Mortimer's biography
> >Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:54:25 +1000
>
> >I am glad your message is a question and not a statement. You are
convinced
> >but you are not certain, because you want to know what other people
think.
> >For you Ian Mortimer has re-written history, but as convincingly has Sir
> >Laurence Gardner. It took a while before the dust settled and then it was
> >fairly obvious that he was wrong. Do not regard Ian Mortimer as gospel
> >truth, and even without reading his book people have all the right in the
> >world to disagree with just the statement that Edward II survived his
> >murder, whether it is you or Ian Mortimer who says so.
>
> >Best wishes
> >Leo van de Pas
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "David Webb" <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:49 AM
> >Subject: Roger Mortimer: Ian Mortimer's biography
>
> >>I have just finished reading this fascinating biography of the 1st Earl
of
> >>March. I am quite convinced that Edward II was not murdered in 1327/28
> >>but survived until 1341. What do people think?
>


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