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From Wikipedia article on Hector Boece.19 July, 2010. Boece shared in the credulity of his age, but the charge of inventing his authorities formerly brought against him has been shown to be, to some extent at any rate, unfounded.

I submit that John Hill Burton's opinion is just that, an opinion. At present, all we have is an unamplified statement by Fox Davies that Burton strongly suspected that the Battle of Luncarty never occurred. Surely, thorough academic investigation requires that the original source be consulted to verify exactly what Burton wrote and what his reasons were for his conclusion.

Cite journal | authorlink = Nicola Royen | title = Boece and the question of Veremund | journal = The Innes Review | volume = 52 | pages = 42-62

Y2:3e024fc2-51fd-44ee-ad50-ffbaf96f69c4 | date = 2001 ____________

One example of Boece being cleared of the charge of fabricating his work concerns the Battle of Luncarty Luncarty, Clan Hay. He was suspected by the Scottish historian John Hill Burton of inventing that battle  but,Walter Bower writing in his Scotichronicon around 1440, some 87 years before Boece first published his Scotorum Historia, refers to the battle briefly.

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