Voyage of Robert Dudley

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. If born in wedlock, the boy was Leicester's heir; but there is some doubt whether he was his first child by Lady Sheffield. In Leicester's Conunonwealt/z she is said to have given birth to a daughter at Dudley Castle4 in Staffordshire, and evidence Of this, though the sex is not stated, was given in the legitimacy suit in in which it was alleged that the infant died at, or very soon after, birth, while the mother was hurried back to Court to quiet suspicion. This happened, it is said, eighteen months before Robert Dudley's birth; so that, if the story is true.