Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third

Walpole's defense of the historical Richard III over the Shakespearian villanization is one of his most famous works and solicited a great deal of notoriety in its day with responses from such notables as Gibbon and David Hume."In his eager advocacy of Richard, H(orace) W(alpole) was a better apologist than historian..But what he wrote he wrote well," Hazen. Walpole founded the "Miscellaneous Antiquities" to publish scarce tracts and previously unprinted manuscripts.