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Lady Jane Grey

From a photo by Emery Walker after the picture by Lucas de Heere in the National portrait Gallery

LADY JANE GREY
AND HER TIMES

By I. A. TAYLOR

Author of Queen Hortense and her Friends
Queen Henrietta Maria, etc.

WITH SEVENTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

decoration

London: HUTCHINSON & CO.
Paternoster Row decoration 1908

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CONTENTS

PAGE
The condition of Europe and EnglandRetrospectReligious AffairsA reign of terrorCranmer in dangerKatherine Howard	1
1546
Katherine ParrRelations with Thomas SeymourMarried to Henry VIII.Parties in court and countryKatherines positionPrince Edward	13
1546
The Marquis of Dorset and his familyBradgate ParkLady Jane GreyHer relations with her cousinsMary TudorProtestantism at WhitehallReligious persecution	24
1546
Anne AskewHer trial and executionKatherine Parrs dangerPlot against herHer escape	36
1546
The King dyingThe Earl of SurreyHis career and his fateThe Duke of Norfolks escapeDeath of the King	48
1547
Triumph of the new menSomerset made ProtectorCoronation of Edward VI.Measures of ecclesiastical reformThe Seymour brothersLady Jane Grey entrusted to the AdmiralThe Admiral and ElizabethHis marriage to Katherine	60
1547-1548
Katherine Parrs unhappy married lifeDissensions between the Seymour brothersThe King and his unclesThe Admiral and Princess ElizabethBirth of Katherines child, and her death	80
1548
Lady Janes temporary return to her fatherHe surrenders her again to the AdmiralThe terms of the bargain	100
1548-1549
Seymour and the Princess ElizabethHis courtshipHe is sent to the TowerElizabeths examinations and admissionsThe execution of the Lord Admiral	108
1549-1550
The Protectors positionDisaffection in the countryIts causesThe Dukes arroganceWarwick his rivalThe success of his opponentsPlaced in the Tower, but releasedSt. Georges Day at Court	126
1549-1551
Lady Jane Grey at homeVisit from Roger AschamThe German divinesPosition of Lady Jane in the theological world	139
1551-1552
An anxious tutorSomersets final fallThe charges against himHis guilt or innocenceHis trial and condemnationThe Kings indifferenceChristmas at GreenwichThe Dukes execution	154
1552
Northumberland and the KingEdwards illnessLady Jane and MaryMary refused permission to practise her religionThe Emperor intervenes	169
1552
Lady Janes correspondence with BullingerIllness of the Duchess of SuffolkHaddons difficultiesRidleys visit to Princess MaryThe English ReformersEdward fatally illLady Janes character and position	178
1553
The King dyingNoailles in EnglandLady Jane married to Guilford DudleyEdwards willOpposition of the law officersThey yieldThe Kings death	193
1553
After King Edwards deathResults to Lady Jane GreyNorthumberlands schemesMarys escapeScene at Sion HouseLady Jane brought to the TowerQuarrel with her husbandHer proclamation as Queen	210
1553
Lady Jane as QueenMary asserts her claimsThe English envoys at BrusselsMarys popularityNorthumberland leaves LondonHis farewells	225
1553
Turn of the tideReaction in Marys favour in the CouncilSuffolk yieldsMary proclaimed in LondonLady Janes depositionShe returns to Sion House	237
1553
Northumberland at bayHis capitulationMeeting with Arundel, and arrestLady Jane a prisonerMary and ElizabethMarys visit to the TowerLondonMarys policy	247
1553
Trial and condemnation of NorthumberlandHis recantationFinal scenesLady Janes fate in the balancesA conversation with her	259
1553
Marys marriage in questionPole and CourtenayForeign suitorsThe Prince of Spain proposed to herElizabeths attitudeLady Janes letter to HardingeThe coronationCranmer in the TowerLady Jane attaintedLetter to her fatherSentence of deathThe Spanish match	275
1553-1554
Discontent at the Spanish matchInsurrections in the countryCourtenay and ElizabethSuffolk a rebelGeneral failure of the insurgentsWyatts successMarches to LondonMarys conductApprehensions in London, and at the palaceThe fightWyatt a prisonerTaken to the Tower	289
1554
Lady Jane and her husband doomedHer dispute with FeckenhamGardiners sermonFarewell messagesLast hoursGuilford Dudleys executionLady Janes death	311
327

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

LADY JANE GREY (Photogravure).

FACING PAGE

HENRY VIII.

KATHERINE HOWARD

HENRY VIII. AND HIS THREE CHILDREN

PRINCE EDWARD, AFTERWARDS EDWARD VI.

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY

KATHERINE PARR

WILLIAM, LORD PAGET, K.G.

EDWARD VI.

LADY JANE GREY

ARCHBISHOP CRANMER

EDWARD SEYMOUR, DUKE OF SOMERSET, K.G.

PRINCESS MARY, AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-EIGHT

LADY JANE GREY

QUEEN ELIZABETH

THE TOWER OF LONDON

HENRY GREY, DUKE OF SUFFOLK, K.G.

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LADY JANE GREY AND
HER TIMES

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CHAPTER I
The condition of Europe and EnglandRetrospectReligious AffairsA reign of terrorCranmer in dangerKatherine Howard.

In 1546 it must have been evident to most observers that the life of the man who had for thirty-five years been Englands ruler and tyrantof whom Raleigh affirmed that if all the patterns of a merciless Prince had been lost in the world they might have been found in this one Kingwas not likely to be prolonged; and though it had been made penal to foretell the death of the sovereign, men must have been secretly looking on to the future with anxious eyes.

Of all the descendants of Henry VII. only one was male, the little Prince Edward, and in case of his death the succession would lie between his two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, branded by successive Acts of Parliament with illegitimacy, the infant Queen of Scotland, whose claims were consistently ignored, and the daughters and grand-daughters of Henry VII.s younger daughter, Mary Tudor.

The royal blood was to prove, to more than one of these, a fatal heritage. To Mary Stuart it was to bring captivity and death, and by reason of it Lady Jane Grey was to be forced to play the part of heroine in one of the most tragic episodes of the sixteenth century.

The latter part of Henry VIII.s reign had been eventful at home and abroad. In Europe the three-cornered struggle between the Emperor Charles V., Francis of France, and Henry had been passing through various phases and vicissitudes, each of the wrestlers bidding for the support of a second of the trio, to the detriment of the third. New combinations were constantly formed as the kaleidoscope was turned; promises were lavishly made, to be broken without a scruple whensoever their breach might prove conducive to personal advantage. Religion, dragged into the political arena, was used as a party war-cry, and employed as a weapon for the destruction of public and private foes.

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