Famous Forgery Case

A famous case involving the forging of handwriting was in 1795. There was a claim that someone found a new version of "Kynge Leare" that was written by Shakespeare. A year later, Edward Malone claimed that the work was a fake. After observing the work, they found that the paper contained multiple different watermarks. Malone concluded that the forger had collected multiple pieces of paper from manuscripts etc and forged the work. Later in 1805 the forger wrote his confession.