Workington.
_Scandal against Queen Elizabeth_ (Vol. ii., p. 393.; Vol. iii., p.
11.).--In _Hubback on the Evidence of Succession_, p. 253, after some
remarks on the word "natural," not of itself in former times denoting
illegitimacy, this passage occurs:
"But as early as the time of Elizabeth the word _natural_, standing
alone, had acquired something of its present meaning. The Parliament,
in debating upon the act establishing the title to the crown in the
Queen's issue, thought it proper to alter the words 'issue lawfully
begotten,' into 'natural-born issue,' conceiving the latter to be a
more delicate phrase. But this created a suspicion among the people,
that the Queen's favourite, Leicester, intended after her death to set
up some bastard of his own, pretending it was born of her, and bred up
privately."--Duke of Buckingham _On Treasons_, cited Amos's
_Fortescue_, p. 154.