but it seems to indicate that this Malory was something other than an ordinary country gentleman. However, while this candidate's father and several other close family members were knights, no clear evidence survives showing that this Malory was ever actually knighted. Thomas Malory of Hutton Conyers The third contender emerged in the late 20th century: Thomas Malory of Hutton Conyers and Studley Royal in Yorkshire. This claim was put forward in 1966 in The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory by William Matthews, a British professor who taught at UCLA (and also transcribed the diary of Samuel Pepys). Matthews makes many arguments for this candidate, with his main focus on linguistic clues both in the Winchester manuscript and the Caxton edition of Le Morte d'Arthur; including distinctive dialectal and stylistic elements such as alliteration that are characteristic of northerly writing. His claim drew scholarly attention including a review co-written by eminent medievalist E. F. Jacob and the famed linguist Angus McIntosh. Neither reviewer accepted Matthews’s claims entirely. Jacob agrees that the dialect of Le Morte is not that of Warwickshire, deferring to McIntosh for a more detailed dialectal analysis while noting that Matthews makes a good case for reopening the question of Malory’s identity. McIntosh’s dialectal analysis states that: “To put the matter simply, the original Le Morte Darthur contained various forms which are too northerly for the everyday language of Newbold Revel”, “i.e. characteristic of anywhere roughly speaking north of a line from Chester to the Wash.” However, he ultimately concludes that the language does not specifically support Matthews’ claim of an origin in the Hutton Conyers / Studley Royal area of Yorkshire, but would rather be “most at home” in Lincolnshire. McIntosh concludes that such northerly influences suggest that Malory “simply had access to, and was deeply steeped in, far more northerly romance material than the specific texts … to which he owed a more or less direct debt.” Other important elements of Matthews's argument for the Hutton Conyers candidate include his evidence of the advanced age of the Newbold Revel candidate at the time of writing, described in that section above; and his analysis of the exclusion of a Sir Thomas Malory from the general pardon in 1468. The pardon applied to a group of Lancastrians in a military campaign in the North. Matthews shows that Thomas Malory of Hutton Conyers