Lady Myrie yielded to the force of evidence; she lifted her hands in horror: "This is too dreadful!"

'Lies and Fantasy' "As a jurist, I do not accord this material the force of evidence," said Peter-Michael Diestel, the East German Minister of the Interior, "since a lot of lies and fantasy flowed into it."

In "The History of Cottingham" (1861), Charles Overton notes the chronological contradictions in the tale, concluding "I am compelled by the force of evidence, to consider the tale which has so often been told respecting Henry VIII and Cottingham Castle, as an entire fiction.