Scandal against Queen Elizabeth

Although many of your correspondents must be well able to reply to P.T.'s Query, I have seen no notice of it as yet. The note to Burton's *Diary*, in citing Osborn, ought to have begun with the word which precedes the words quoted. The note would then have run thus:— "That Queen Elizabeth had a son, &c., I neglect to insert, as fitter for a romance than to mingle with so much truth and integrity as I profess." In the Add. MSS. 5524. is an apparently modern note, stated to be in the handwriting of Mr. Ives, to the following effect:— "I have heard it confidently asserted, that Queen Elizabeth wa…