LOST AUTOGRAPHS OF JOHN SKELTON, DAVID LYNDSAY, AND THOMAS MORE?

A thorough search of late nineteenth century Sotheby sale catalogues, undertaken for quite different purposes, has incidentally unearthed some references to autographs of early sixteenth-century literary figures, all of extreme rarity. Autographs themselves have not been located and until they are their authenticity must rest on the authority of Sotheby cataloguers. However, since they are unlisted by the Index of "English Literary Manuscripts" it may be that specialists in that period will have some interest in them.