Documents of Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen of England, 1553Published information on Lady Jane is scant and contradictory; here, primary sources including JaneOCOs own letters illustrate the drama of a high-born, high-minded and intelligent young lady sacrificed on the pyre of ambition by her kin. The teenaged Lady" |
Contents
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Chapter 3 PostReign Period | 89 |
Chapter 4 Furthermore | 155 |
Chapter 5 CrossExamination | 181 |
Bibliography | 187 |
Index | 193 |
Acknowledgments | 203 |
Table of Contents | 207 |
Preface | 1 |
Chapter 1 PreReign Period | 3 |
Chapter 2 Reigning Period | 47 |
Chapter 3 PostReign Period | 89 |
Chapter 4 Furthermore | 155 |
Chapter 5 CrossExamination | 181 |
Documents of | 199 |
Documents of | 201 |
Bibliography | 187 |
Index | 193 |
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Page 55 - Jane by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, under Christ in Earth the supreme Head.
Page 118 - When Thou hidest thy face they are troubled; when Thou takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to their dust. 30 When Thou lettest thy breath go forth they shall be made ; and Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
Page 8 - God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 133 - I pray you all, good Christian people, to bear me witness that I die a true Christian woman, and that I...
Page 136 - Sir John Gage, constable of the Tower, when he led her to execution, desired her to bestow on him some small present, which he might keep as a perpetual memorial of her. She gave him her table-book, in which she had just written three sentences, on seeing her husband's dead body ; one in Greek, another in Latin, a third in English The purport of them was, "that human justice was against his body, but the Divine mercy would be favourable to his soul...
Page 8 - I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him.
Page 114 - Preacher saith, there is a time to be born and a time to die ; and the day of death is better than the day of our birth.
Page 131 - God had prospered him, you should have inherited his lands ; so, if you apply diligently this book, seeking to direct your life after it, you shall be an inheritor of such riches as neither the covetous shall withdraw from you, neither thief shall steal, neither yet the moths corrupt.
Page 8 - I will tell you, quoth she, and tell you a Truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest Benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe Parents, and so gentle a Schoolmaster.
Page 54 - That the laws of the kingdom and natural right standing for the king's sisters, she would beware of burdening her weak conscience with a yoke which did belong to them ; that she understood the infamy of those who had permitted the violation of right to gain a sceptre; that it were to mock God and deride justice, to scruple at the stealing of a shilling, and not at the usurpation of a crown. Besides...