Chapter I: Front Matter

_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

London: HUTCHINSON & CO.
Paternoster Row 1908

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
The condition of Europe and England--Retrospect--Religious
Affairs--A reign of terror--Cranmer in danger--Katherine Howard 1

CHAPTER II

1546

Katherine Parr--Relations with Thomas Seymour--Married to
Henry VIII.--Parties in court and country--Katherine’s
position--Prince Edward 13

CHAPTER III

1546

The Marquis of Dorset and his family--Bradgate Park--Lady Jane
Grey--Her relations with her cousins--Mary Tudor--Protestantism
at Whitehall--Religious persecution 24

CHAPTER IV

1546

Anne Askew--Her trial and execution--Katherine Parr’s
danger--Plot against her--Her escape 36

CHAPTER V

1546

The King dying--The Earl of Surrey--His career and his fate--The
Duke of Norfolk’s escape--Death of the King 48

CHAPTER VI

1547

Triumph of the new men--Somerset made Protector--Coronation of
Edward VI.--Measures of ecclesiastical reform--The Seymour
brothers--Lady Jane Grey entrusted to the Admiral--The Admiral
and Elizabeth--His marriage to Katherine 60

CHAPTER VII

1547-1548

Katherine Parr’s unhappy married life--Dissensions between the
Seymour brothers--The King and his uncles--The Admiral and
Princess Elizabeth--Birth of Katherine’s child, and her death 80

CHAPTER VIII

1548

Lady Jane’s temporary return to her father--He surrenders her
again to the Admiral--The terms of the bargain 100

CHAPTER IX

1548-1549

Seymour and the Princess Elizabeth--His courtship--He is sent
to the Tower--Elizabeth’s examinations and admissions--The
execution of the Lord Admiral 108

CHAPTER X

1549-1550

The Protector’s position--Disaffection in the country--Its
causes--The Duke’s arrogance--Warwick his rival--The success of
his opponents--Placed in the Tower, but released--St. George’s
Day at Court 126

CHAPTER XI

1549-1551

Lady Jane Grey at home--Visit from Roger Ascham--The German
divines--Position of Lady Jane in the theological world 139

CHAPTER XII

1551-1552

An anxious tutor--Somerset’s final fall--The charges against
him--His guilt or innocence--His trial and condemnation--The
King’s indifference--Christmas at Greenwich--The Duke’s
execution 154

CHAPTER XIII

1552

Northumberland and the King--Edward’s illness--Lady Jane and
Mary--Mary refused permission to practise her religion--The
Emperor intervenes 169

CHAPTER XIV

1552

Lady Jane’s correspondence with Bullinger--Illness of the Duchess
of Suffolk--Haddon’s difficulties--Ridley’s visit to Princess
Mary--The English Reformers--Edward fatally ill--Lady Jane’s
character and position 178

CHAPTER XV

1553

The King dying--Noailles in England--Lady Jane married to
Guilford Dudley--Edward’s will--Opposition of the law
officers--They yield--The King’s death 193

CHAPTER XVI

1553

After King Edward’s death--Results to Lady Jane Grey--
Northumberland’s schemes--Mary’s escape--Scene at Sion
House--Lady Jane brought to the Tower--Quarrel with her
husband--Her proclamation as Queen 210

CHAPTER XVII

1553

Lady Jane as Queen--Mary asserts her claims--The English
envoys at Brussels--Mary’s popularity--Northumberland leaves
London--His farewells 225

CHAPTER XVIII

1553

Turn of the tide--Reaction in Mary’s favour in the Council--
Suffolk yields--Mary proclaimed in London--Lady Jane’s
deposition--She returns to Sion House 237

CHAPTER XIX

1553

Northumberland at bay--His capitulation--Meeting with Arundel,
and arrest--Lady Jane a prisoner--Mary and Elizabeth--Mary’s
visit to the Tower--London--Mary’s policy 247

CHAPTER XX

1553

Trial and condemnation of Northumberland--His recantation--Final
scenes--Lady Jane’s fate in the balances--A conversation with
her 259

CHAPTER XXI

1553

Mary’s marriage in question--Pole and Courtenay--Foreign
suitors--The Prince of Spain proposed to her--Elizabeth’s
attitude--Lady Jane’s letter to Hardinge--The coronation--
Cranmer in the Tower--Lady Jane attainted--Letter to her
father--Sentence of death--The Spanish match 275

CHAPTER XXII

1553-1554

Discontent at the Spanish match--Insurrections in the
country--Courtenay and Elizabeth--Suffolk a rebel--General
failure of the insurgents--Wyatt’s success--Marches to
London--Mary’s conduct--Apprehensions in London, and at the
palace--The fight--Wyatt a prisoner--Taken to the Tower 289