Thanks for that M.Ted, I stand corrected. I had heard this story a long time ago and it seemed to add up, but now I know better. There were other fakes, more easily spotted - such as 'manager' being about 'men in charge' whereas in fact the word comes from the root 'mano' or 'manus' (good old latin again) meaning 'hand'. The concept was of someone who had a hand over something, as in guiding or controlling it

But the veracity of the 'sincere' story aside, I'm sure there were 'religious' fraudsters back then..