A strong attack on both the "Vestiarium Scoticum" and their "Tales of the Century" then followed and the brothers ancestral claims, which had received little acceptance in England, and the "Vestiarium" were completely discredited in a devastating anonymous article ‘The heirs of the Stuarts’, believed to be by George Skene (1807-1875), Professor of Law at Glasgow University, which appeared in the "Quarterly Review", vol. 81 (June-September 1847) 57-85. He concluded about the "Vestiarium" that ‘this pretended MS of the sixteenth century is an absolute fabrication, and of no authority whatever’ and about the "Tales" that Prince Charles Edward Stuart ‘could have had no possible reason for concealing the birth of an heir’; any idea that he had ‘left a legitimate male progeny’ was ‘the silliest of dreams’.