Talk:Crimes of the False King

Published in or by Penzance

It's unclear from the text if this book was published by someone named Penzance or in Penzance. It's more likely the former, given the conventions of the publishing industry at the time, but Penzance is a very uncommon name.--Chuckhoffmann (talk) 11:59, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Provenance

Provenance is the trail of documentary evidence that proves that an object (usually a work of art) is genuine by establishing a chain of custody. I have incorporated the real-world slighting of Newark Castle as possible link in this chain, the idea being that Watershippe concealed his manuscript somehow during his confinement and it was not rediscovered until 1648. This still leaves a 50-year gap between that date and the actual publication, so it is still entirely possible that the manuscript is fake, and possibly a disguised anti-monarchical tract, but this may be going too far out of canon to explain what is ultimately a one-line throwaway joke in Clarke's book.--Chuckhoffmann (talk) 04:29, 22 September 2025 (UTC)