WALTER GOODALL BIOGRAPHY
WALTER GOODALL BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
GOODALL, WALTER (1706?-1766). —Historical writer, born in Banffshire, and ed. King's Coll., Aberdeen, became assistant librarian to the Advocates' Library in Edin. In 1754 he pub. an Examination of the Letters said to have been written by Mary Queen of Scots , in which he combats the genuineness of the "Casket Letters." He also ed., among other works, Fordun's Scotichronicon (1759).