Spoiler, A question

[JoanDrake]

This will be a big spoiler if you haven't read the first book, or seen the first season. Highlight

I realize it's in the King's handwriting, but Documents can be forged.

Why doesn't Ned Stark get someone (and someone he knows he can trust, not Baeylish or Varys) to witness the paper that signs the Regency over to him? He knows the Lannisters are ambitious and unscrupulous, and besides, he also has told Cersei he knows Joffrey is not really Robert"s son. (At least that seems to be the case in the book.)

I realize these are, supposedly, Medieval times, but it seems to me that even then you would call somebody in to witness such an important document right away, especially if you are pretty sure the person making it is dying and this is going to be a deathbed statement.

Is Martin trying to establish Ned's character as being stupid or what?IT

 

[Ursa major]

But Ned did not write down precisely what the King wanted, so how would a witness help Ned's cause? And witnesses can be disposed of.

 

[JoanDrake]

OIC, OK, I read the book again. I was confused by the tv version, which, apparently, I didn't see in its entirety