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Supposititious children are
fraudulent offspring.
These arose when an heir was
required and so a
suitable baby
might be
procured and p****ed off as genuine...
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Catholic dynasty,
several influential Protestants claimed the
child was
supposititious and had been
smuggled into the Queen's
bedchamber in a
warming pan....
- and Anne, be
raised a
Roman Catholic. Some
charged that the boy was "
supposititious",
having been
secretly smuggled into the Queen's room in a bed-warming...
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witnessed by
members of the
family and
senior courtiers to
guard against supposititious children. But in fact, Augusta's due date was earlier. When she in went...
- the
grievances against King James. It
claimed that the king's son was
supposititious (fraudulently substituted) and that the
English people generally believed...
- me firm to my
religion and
faithfully yours." To
dispel rumours of a
supposititious child,
James had 40
witnesses to the
birth attend a
Privy Council meeting...
- H. “Tablets from the
Sippar Library. I. The ‘Weidner Chronicle’: A
Supposititious Royal Letter Concerning a Vision.” Iraq, vol. 52, pp. 1–13, 1990 [2]Augusta...
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witnessed by
members of the
family and
senior courtiers to
guard against supposititious children, and
Augusta had been
forced by her
husband to ride in a rattling...
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examine a
widow suspected to be
feigning pregnancy in
order to
enable a
supposititious heir to
obtain the estate. It lay also
where a
woman sentenced to death...
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unfit for the sacrifice, as
being no
daughter of
Lyciscus at all, but a
supposititious child. Meanwhile, Lyciscus, in alarm, took the
maiden with him and withdrew...
