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1608 J. Chamberlain Let. 9 Dec. in MS P.R.O. SP14/38 f.27^v Yt is though[t] the parliment will hold in February, for that the K.[ing] is so desirous to have the sentence of the Judges for the post nati..that he can indure no delay.

1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 89 This Length of Life, immediately after the Floud, was reduced to a Moitie; But in the Post-Nati: For Noah, who was borne before, equalled the Age of his Ancestours.

1800 M. Laing Hist. Scotl. (1804) I. 14 The postnati, born since the death of Elizabeth, as their allegiance was indiscriminately due to James, were declared to be freely naturalized in either kingdom.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon at Post-natus As to post-nati and ante-nati, it was solemnly adjudged, that those who after the descent of the crown of England to James I. were born in Scotland, were not aliens here in England.

1897 Dict. National Biogr. L. 287/1 In February 1607 he [sc. Sir Edwin Sandys] advocated the concession of limited privileges to the ‘postnati’.

2000 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 39 400 The central issue of the case was whether Robert Calvin, a postnatus, that is, a Scot born at Edinburgh after the accession of James I to the English throne, was entitled to inherit land in England and enjoy the benefit of English law.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Post Post-Natus is also used by Bracton, Fleta, Glanville, &c. for the second Son.

1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Postnatus, the second son, or one born afterwards.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon (at cited word) Post-natus, the second son, or one born afterwards; often mentioned in..ancient writers.