Chapter III: The Last Years of Lady Mary (1)

LADY MARY GREY’S life with the Greshams was more uncomfortable by several degrees than it had been with the dowager duchess. Sir Thomas seems to have disliked her heartily, and his wife, Lady Gresham—who, by the way, had been a milliner, and who still, notwithstanding her husband’s wealth, occasionally made caps for Queen Elizabeth—called the poor little woman the “heart sorrow of her life.” The couple therefore strained every nerve to get their unwelcome guest removed. Letter after letter did Gresham send to Cecil and to Leicester, not complaining of any particular ill-conduct on Lady Mary’s part, but merely putting forward reasons for her departure. First, his wife wants to ride into Norfolk to see her old mother, and the Lady Mary is some sort of hindrance to her journey; then, one of his servants at Osterley has the plague and they want to get into the country. In all these compositions the writer reckons up, to a day, the time Lady Mary has been in his house, to his wife’s “bondiage and harte sorrow.” Sometimes he even offers to pay well for her removal; but the powers that were, gave no heed to these agonized complaints and appeals. Hence Lady Mary was still at Gresham House when, early in September 1571, Dr. Smythe, her doctor, came to inform Sir Thomas that the obnoxious ex-Sergeant-Porter had passed out of the reach of “this warden of the Fleet” for all eternity. The poor little widow was deeply distressed; “his death she grievously taketh,” wrote her host-jailer to Cecil; “she hath requested me to write to you to be a mean to the Queen’s Majesty to be good to her, and that she may have Her Majesty’s leave to keep and bring up his poor children.” This care for her step-children is a pleasant side-light on Lady Mary’s kindness of heart. “As likewise,” continues Sir Thomas, “I desire to know Her Majesty’s pleasure, whether I shall suffer her to wear any black mourning apparel or not.” Then he recurs to his old bone of contention: “Trusting that now I shall be presently [soon] despatched of her by your good means.” Shortly after this, Mary, having retired to Osterley Park, wrote to Cecil that “as God had taken away the cause of Her Majesty’s displeasure [i.e. Mr. Keyes] she begged to be restored to her favour.” This letter was signed “Mary Keyes,” which apparently gave offence, for the next letter was from plain “Mary Grey,” and she never repeated the obnoxious appellation of Keyes. Still she was not removed, and still the Greshams importuned: at length, after a final appeal (for “the quietness of my poor wife”), Sir Thomas rode up to London to make a personal request. Mary would seem to have been as anxious to leave her unwilling host and hostess, as they were to get rid of her, and greatly desired to take up her residence with her step-father, Adrian Stokes, Esq., then living in the Charterhouse at Sheen, who had kindly offered to receive her. But Sir Thomas’s personal efforts were not crowned with success, and the young widow had to spend the winter of 1571-72 with her inhospitable hosts at Mayfield in Sussex, where they had a country seat.

In March 1572, a letter from Sir Thomas Gresham to Cecil, then Lord Burleigh—or as he calls him “Lord Bowerly”—indicates that his oft-expressed desire for the removal of his charge was now nearing accomplishment, and he proceeds to clinch the matter by an offer which is nothing less than bare-faced bribery. “And whereas,” says he, “I have allowed my lord of Oxford [Cecil’s son-in-law] for his money but after the rate of ten per centum, I shall [now] be content to allow him after twelve per centum with any other service I can do for him or you.” This offer of increased interest was too good to be neglected, and before June of the same year, Mary was free to go where she would—liberty had come at last. In a pathetic letter dated May 24, 1572, the released prisoner describes herself as “destitute of all friends—only God and Her Majesty,” and only possessing £80 allowed her by the queen, and £20 per annum of her own. Her “father-in-law”—meaning of course Adrian Stokes, her step-father—will give her nothing, for he has married again. She had expectations which would slightly better her actual income: by a reversion of the dowager Duchess of Suffolk she was to receive £333 6s. 8d. and the same sum at the death of Adrian Stokes.[135] By the summer of this year (1572), Lady Mary was settled with her step-father in the Charterhouse; and Sir Thomas Gresham wrote to express his heartfelt thanks to Cecil for his “delivery [i.e. deliverance] from the Lady Mary.”

After this, Master Keyes’s widow seems to have dwelt in peace till the end of her days. She addressed no further complaints to Cecil, and her will proves that her financial position was a fairly good one. Her name figures no more in the State Papers: she seems to have dropped completely out of sight and out of mind. We know, however, that she eventually either returned to the dowager duchess at the Minories, or occupied that lady’s house in the Barbican;[136] and that on New Year’s Day 1577 she presented the queen, then at Hampton Court, with “four dozen buttons of gold, in each of them a seed pearl, and two pairs of sweet [i.e. perfumed] gloves,” a gift acknowledged by Elizabeth, who gave her kinswoman a silver cup and cover, weighing eighteen ounces: apparently Mary occasionally went to court, and enjoyed the royal favour, at least to some extent.

An entry in the royal household books for 1576 states that Lady Mary Grey stood sufficiently well in the queen’s graces to be at Hampton Court during the great revels held there at Christmas time. The list of guests who presented gifts to Her Majesty opens with the names of her two cousins, the Lady Margaret Lennox and the Lady Mary Grey. The latter presented a gold cup; Leicester, a carcanet glittering with diamonds, emeralds and rubies; Burleigh, a purse of £30; and the Lady Derby, “a gown of satin broidered with peacocks’ feathers in silk.” Even the humblest servant gave some trifle to the greedy queen, who by this means generally obtained something like £10,000 per annum, as voluntary contributions—we will not vouch much, however, for the sincerity of the “voluntary.” The queen’s gifts generally amounted to less than £2000, and, with the exception of those given to members of the royal family, were the merest trifles in silver. She was, however, fairly generous, as a rule, to the poorer menials, giving them warm clothing and blankets.

Lady Mary died, of what complaint we do not know, on April 20, 1578, aged thirty-three, her death being hastened, no doubt, by her griefs and miseries. She may have been buried at St. Botolph’s-without-Aldersgate, but some authorities think otherwise, and even state that her place of burial is Bradgate Church. In Stowe’s _Survey_ occurs an entry to the effect that the Lady Mary Grey shares her mother’s tomb in Westminster Abbey.

Lady Mary’s will is not only a fine specimen of sixteenth-century orthography, but proves that she possessed more property than is generally supposed. The document (which is in the Lansdowne MSS. at the British Museum, xxvii. 31) begins: “In the name of God Amen. The xvij daye of Aprill in the yeare of our lord god 1578. And in the xxth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lady Elizabethe.” Lady Mary Grey describes herself as “of the p’ishe of St. Botolphe w^[th]out Aldersgate,” a “widowe of wholl minde and of good and perfect remambraunce laude and praise be unto Almightie God.” She commits her “soull” to the care of its Maker, trusting in salvation through Christ “without any other waies or meanes.” Her body is “to be buried where the Quens Ma’tie should think most meete and convenient.” This seems to suggest that she was still under royal supervision. To the dowager Duchess of Suffolk, her step-grandmother, she bequeathes “one paere of hand Bracelettes of gould with a jacinte stonne in eatche Bracelette wh Bracelettes were my ladie grace my late mothers or els my Juell of unycornes horne wchsoever herr grace refusathe I geave and bequeathe to my verie good ladie ye lady Susanne Countesse of Kente.”[137] It is curious that she should “geave to my verie frend Mrs. Blaunche a Parr a little gilt bowlle w^{th} a cover to it.”[138] It was possibly thanks to Blanche Parry that Lady Mary obtained some measure of favour and liberty in her last years. She leaves to the “Fair Geraldine,” now Countess of Lincoln, a girdle of goldsmith’s work and some gold buttons. To Lady Mary Bertie—she spells it “Bartye,” even as it is still pronounced—and to her husband, Mr. Bertie, she leaves her best gilt cup and the best silver and gilt salt-cellar. She bequeathes to Mary, Lady Stafford, a “tablet of gould with an aggett in it”; and to Anne, Lady Arundel, a “tankarde of sylver.” To a certain Lady Margaret Nevill, she leaves a number of gowns of velvet and satin; to Lady Throckmorton, a “boulle” of silver, with a cover; to her god-daughter, Jane Merrick, she leaves “one good fethered bedde and a boulstere to the same and the three peres of hangings which I have of myne owne and a cowple of covered stoolles.” Were these the identical objects that had excited the dowager duchess’s scorn? Lady Mary next disposes of the lease of “my house wherein I now dwell,” which she wishes to be sold, the purchase money being assigned to “Marrie Merrick my goddaughter” in trust of Edmund “Haull my cowsen.” This plainly indicates that at the time of her death she was in a house of her own, and not at the Duchess of Suffolk’s; and the will also proves her to have been rich enough to keep her coach. Mary Merrick must have been a sister of the testator’s godchild, Jane Merrick, since she is expressly stated to have been not yet twenty-one years of age. After various bequests to divers persons, she leaves to Anne Goldwell, evidently the witness of her unhappy wedding, “half a dozen silver spoones and twoe trenchers plattes of silver.” “Henrie Gouldwell,” very likely that lady’s husband, receives “my baie coatche geldings.” The residue “of all my goods and catteles [chattels] both moveable and immoveable,” are to be applied to the payment of her debts. Finally, Mr. Edmund Hall[139] and Mr. Thomas Duport—the latter her cousin by marriage—are appointed executors.

There is no authentic portrait of this poor little princess extant; she was possibly never in a position to have one taken. Nor do we know much of her personal appearance or character. There is no evidence of her having been accomplished in any particular way; still, Gresham, even at the height of his desire to be rid of her, brings against her no accusation of bad temper or undue haughtiness. Most likely she was merely peevish and melancholy, which is not surprising when we remember that she was separated from her husband of a week, and deprived of her freedom. Her very dismal library, which she possessed to the time of her death and had carted about with her wherever she went,[140] suggests that she was acquainted with French and Italian, and greatly interested in religious matters, being a strong Protestant. Her library includes Palgrave’s French Dictionary and Grammar, and an Italian Commentary on the Scriptures, as well as the following works of sombre old-world philosophy and theology: _Mr. Knox, His Answer to the Adversary of God’s Predestination_; _Mr. Knewstubbe’s Readings_; _The Ship of Assured Safety_, by Dr. Cradocke; _Mr. Cartwright’s First and Second Reply_; _The Second Course of the Hunter and of the Romish Fox_; _Godly Mr. Whitgift’s Answer_; _Mr. Dearing’s Reply_; _Dr. Fulkes’ Answer to the Popish Demands_; _Dr. Fulkes’ Answer to Allen touching Purgatory_; _The First Admonition to the Parliament_; _The Image of God_, by Hutchinson; _The Duty of Perseverance_; _The Edict of Pacification_; _The Book of Martyrs_, in two volumes; Latimer’s _Sermons on the Four Evangelists_; _A Treatise of the Deeds of the True Successors of Christ_; _The Life of the Countie Baltazer Castiglione_, and _A Treatise of the Resurrection of the Dead_; also three editions of the Bible—the Geneva Translation, the Bishops’ and the French—and a Common Prayer Book!

Poor little woman! When Gresham literally turned her out of his house, with one man and a cartload of her belongings, her sacred library was amongst her greatest treasures. “She hath taken all her bookes and rubbish,” writes the great man to the greater Cecil; but provided he and his wife were rid of Lady Mary, they did not much care where she and her “bookes and rubbish” went.

LADY ELEANOR BRANDON, AND HER HEIRS

THE reader may be interested to know something of the story of the Lady Eleanor, Countess of Cumberland, younger sister of the Lady Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, and another of the many claimants to Elizabeth’s succession, whose name has been frequently mentioned in these pages.

The queen-duchess, Mary Tudor, it will be remembered, had only two daughters who survived her, the Ladies Frances and Eleanor, by her second husband, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Many considered the Lady Eleanor’s claim to the Throne superior to that of her elder sister, because at the time of her birth, Lady Mortimer, Suffolk’s second wife,[141] was dead; whereas she was still living, and clamouring for her rights, when the Lady Frances came into this world. Henry VIII’s will, however, mentioned the Lady Frances and her children, for he had long since refused to question the validity of his sister’s marriage with Charles Brandon, or in any way to recognize the position of the Lady Mortimer, who, it should be remembered, remarried with a certain Mr. Hall—according to Dugdale—and thus placed herself out of court.

The Lady Eleanor Brandon was a better-looking woman than her sister Frances. When her tomb in Skipton Church was disturbed, in the seventeenth century, her skeleton, which was in perfect condition, proved her to have been “very tall and large boned,” whereas the Lady Frances was of medium stature. Lady Eleanor, if we may judge by her portrait, which hangs at Skipton Castle, was pretty, rather than beautiful. The writer confesses that the portrait at Skipton did not impress him as that of one who could have put forward the slightest pretensions to good looks; the cheeks are high, the forehead abnormally broad, the eyes, however, are fine, and the hair, fair; but the complexion, according to this venerable picture, must have been quite ghastly. The portrait is very badly painted—a poor thing, worth little as a work of art, but none the less interesting.

On the same day that her sister Lady Frances married Henry Grey, Marquis of Dorset, in March 1533, occurred the betrothal of the Lady Eleanor to Lord Henry Clifford, the eldest son of the Earl of Cumberland, who was remotely related to Henry VIII; his grandmother, Anne St. John of Bletsoe, being cousin once removed to Margaret, Countess of Richmond, the king’s grandmother. The marriage took place in the summer of 1537 at Suffolk Place, probably in the Church of St. Mary Overies—now incorporated in the recently created Cathedral of Southwark—and in the presence of Henry VIII and his court. In honour of the wedding, the Earl of Cumberland built two towers and a gallery at Skipton Castle; and we are told that these additions to the princely old mansion were completed in less than four months—a surprisingly short time, when the exceeding roughness of the implements and machinery then used for building purposes, is taken into consideration. This ancient mansion is still in existence and happily in excellent preservation.

The bride and bridegroom spent most of the early part of their married life at Skipton; but during the disturbances that accompanied the “Pilgrimage of Grace,” the Lady Eleanor, with her attendants and one of her children, a boy, were removed to Bolton Abbey, some ten miles distant from Skipton, a beautifully situated monastery, which had been presented to the young Earl of Cumberland shortly after its suppression. Here the Lady Eleanor was in sore danger, for the insurgents, having attacked the castle, informed the young earl that they would hold the Lady Eleanor and his child—who were entirely without defence at Bolton—as hostages if he did not surrender. They even threatened to place them in front of the storming party, and if the attacks on the castle were repelled, to hand them over to the lowest camp-followers. Luckily, however, assistance arrived in time, and the danger was thereby averted. Both Clifford and his wife owed their safety to young Christopher Aske, brother to Robert Aske, one of the leaders of the rebellion. This brave youth succeeded in passing, almost single-handed, through the rebel camp, and contrived, thanks to his knowledge of the country, to bring relief to the earl at the castle, and, going on to Bolton, carry the ladies out of the abbey and conduct them, in the dead of night, to a place of safety some miles off.

On the death of the old Earl of Cumberland, in 1542, his title passed to Eleanor’s husband, but very shortly after this accession of rank, he successively lost both his sons; the eldest, christened Henry after his father, died when he was two or three years of age, and was buried in the Clifford family vault in Skipton Church, near his brother Charles, who also died in infancy. The inconsolable young mother did not long survive her loss. She retired to Brougham Castle, and died there in November 1547, being buried at Skipton Church. The most interesting fact connected with her brief and (for those days) uneventful history, is that her husband took his bereavement so much to heart, that “on learning he was a widower, he swooned and lay as one dead.” His attendants, believing he had really passed away, stripped his body, and were preparing to embalm it, when, to their consternation, he suddenly revived and struggled into a sitting position in his coffin. Although the attendants were terribly frightened, they soon realized what had happened, and very sensibly placed him in a warm bed, gave him a strong cordial to drink, and fed him, for some days, on a diet of warm bread and milk. He recovered his health, and, a few years later, married a second time. He died in 1570 and is buried in Skipton Church, between his two wives, the Lady Eleanor Brandon and the Lady Anne Dacres.

The Lady Eleanor is mentioned as the frequent recipient of Henry VIII’s New Year and other holiday gifts, which leads one to presume that she was perhaps a greater favourite than her sister. She seems to have had little or nothing to do with the Greys, but there is mention in the Leicester archives of her visiting Bradgate in 1546; and, if we may credit Burke, there was an intimacy between her kinswoman, the Lady Philippa Clifford, and Lady Jane Grey.[142] With her step-mother, the wily Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, she was evidently on good terms.

The eldest daughter of Henry Clifford and the Lady Eleanor Brandon was the Lady Margaret Clifford, who survived her parents and had a very troubled career.

Of the childhood of this Lady Margaret little or nothing is known, but in all probability it was spent like that of her young cousins, the Greys. In the writer’s life of Lady Jane Grey, mention is made of a certain Mistress Huggins, who foolishly boasted that she had heard it repeated about London that the Duke of Northumberland intended to marry his son, Guildford Dudley, to the Lady Margaret Clifford. The publicity thus given to his schemes seems to have induced the duke to change them; and shortly afterwards, Northumberland made an effort to secure the heiress for his brother, Andrew Dudley, instead of Guildford, who, as all know, married Lady Jane Grey. Luckily for both parties, however, the project fell through; and the Lady Margaret thus escaped the fate that overwhelmed the Dudley family.

Lady Margaret is next heard of as one of the ladies of the bedchamber at the court of Queen Mary; and in 1555, with Her Majesty’s consent, she was married, in Westminster Palace, with great pomp, to Lord Strange, eldest son of the Earl of Derby. Mary was too ill to attend her cousin’s wedding, but the two Ladies Grey, and the queen’s unpopular consort, Philip of Spain, were present, and a great banquet was held in Westminster Hall in honour of the bride and bridegroom, after which the king displayed his prowess to much advantage in a tilt in the Spanish style.

Although the Lady Margaret very often and imprudently asserted her prior right to the Throne over her cousins, the Ladies Katherine and Mary Grey, she does not seem to have given umbrage to Mary Tudor, and continued, until that queen’s death, to take precedence of all the great ladies of the court, her aunt, the Lady Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, and her cousin Margaret, Countess of Lennox, alone excepted. Nor was her position greatly altered after Elizabeth’s accession. Her husband, Lord Strange, enjoyed the “Great Eliza’s” favour until his death, but he seems to have entertained little affection or regard for his wife, whom he left to her own devices.

The death, in 1570, of the Earl of Cumberland, the Lady Margaret’s father, brought her a great accession of wealth; and the subsequent demise (in 1572) of her father-in-law, increased her rank, for her husband then became Earl of Derby and titular King in Man. After this event, Margaret’s husband, who had been living separated from her, seems to have become more friendly, and the illustrious couple removed to Latham House in Westmorland, where they kept up almost royal state. It was not until after Elizabeth’s systematic cruelty had broken the hearts of the Ladies Katherine and Mary Grey that she seems to have conceived it possible that the Lady Margaret Clifford’s claims might, like those of Lady Katherine, threaten her sovereign security. She had received Lady Margaret’s eldest son, Fernando Strange, into her household, and had treated him with much kindness—he was, it is significantly asserted, very good looking—but at the same time the wily queen kept a strict watch on his movements, lest the male heir of Lady Eleanor should display the least inclination to encroach on her prerogatives. Fernando, however, never gave her the least cause for uneasiness. In 1594 he met with a singular and sudden death, wherein witchcraft was mixed up with a good deal of mystery of a very suspicious and purely political kind.

Towards the middle of the year 1578, Elizabeth—for some reason or other which has never transpired, but not improbably at the suggestion of Lord Derby, who was then high in her favour, and who heartily detested his wife—began to look upon Lady Margaret with disfavour. The poor lady had been suffering from a sort of low fever, and was recommended to try the skill of a certain Dr. Randall, a famous physician, who was also popularly held to be a wizard. Elizabeth sent spies to Latham, and was soon informed that the Lady Margaret and her soothsayer were conspiring by magic arts against her, and were also entertaining Jesuits, and other suspected persons.

Acting upon these evidently trumped-up charges, Elizabeth ordered both the doctor and his patient to be conveyed to London. In less than a week, the wizard was arraigned, tried, condemned, and hanged. The countess was handed over to the strict custody of one of her kinsmen, a Mr. Seckford, who resided in the then fashionable suburb of Clerkenwell and held the office of “Master of Requests”—a position which, if the duties at all fitted in with the title, must have entailed a great deal of hard work, in an age when about half the aristocracy spent their lives in petitioning or requesting mercy or other favours for their imprisoned relatives. For all this, the gentleman seems to have been interested in what we should call the building or house-property business, for the Lady Margaret’s numerous letters are full of references to the many houses, not only in Clerkenwell, but even at Hampstead and Hackney, which he desired to sell or to let. He seems to have treated the poor lady very kindly; and, so far as possible under such circumstances, she lived comfortably enough; but she was never allowed to go out unaccompanied, and then only within the precincts of the gardens or to make purchases in shops in the neighbourhood. In her correspondence she frequently mentions a court jeweller named Brandon, presumably an illegitimate son of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. This tradesman was in favour with Elizabeth, who employed him in mending and mounting her innumerable watches, jewels, and clocks, and he appears to have been on almost friendly terms with the queen, and with the Lady Margaret, who, if the above supposition is correct, was his cousin once removed. He may have interceded for her with the queen, as Walsingham, Cecil, and Hatton undoubtedly did, but without the slightest result. The Lady Margaret remained a close prisoner, precisely as the Ladies Grey had been, being quartered with Mr. Seckford until her death, though not always at his house in Clerkenwell, for she generally spent the summer months at Hampstead, in a mansion rented by her from the said Mr. Seckford. It seems she was never allowed to live with her very unfaithful husband, which was probably not considered a very great deprivation by him. Elizabeth, with whom he was in high favour, had appointed him Lord High Steward of England, Judge for the trial of the Earl of Arundel for treason, and Lord High Chamberlain of Chester. When he died, in 1593, Lady Margaret was given a sort of holiday, being allowed to attend his funeral at Ormskirk in Lancashire; their union had been blessed with four sons and a daughter. On the Earl of Derby’s death, his son, Fernando, assumed that title, as well as that of King in Man, but did not enjoy these honours long. In the spring of 1594, he was suddenly taken ill, and died in a few hours. As already hinted, a suggestive air of mystery hung over his end. Some time in that year, he was seized with fearful and sudden intestinal pains which were popularly attributed to the occult practices of one Dr. Hacket, in whose house was afterwards found a small waxen figure said to represent the young earl, and stuffed with hair of the same colour as that of the supposed victim. Accordingly as this wax image was maltreated, so, in the opinion of the credulous, did the person it resembled suffer, and since it was stuck as full of pins as any pincushion, there could be no doubt as to the cause of young Strange’s prolonged torments and terrible death! Hacket was, of course, after having been duly tortured, hanged as a wizard. The Lady Margaret survived her eldest son by two years, dying, in 1596, at the house in Clerkenwell, which she had rented from Mr. Seckford before his death. She is buried in St. Edmund’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey, near her aunt, the Lady Frances. After the death of Earl Fernando, the title of Earl of Derby and King in Man passed to Lady Margaret’s youngest son, Lord William Stanley, who married a De Vere, youngest daughter of the Earl of Oxford, by his wife, Cecil’s second daughter. This William Stanley was the father of that loyal Earl of Derby who was beheaded by Cromwell after the battle of Worcester, and whose wife, Charlotte de la Tremoïlle, has been immortalized by Sir Walter Scott, who introduces her into a short but marvellously effective and impressive scene in _Peveril of the Peak_.

INDEX

Alva, Duke of, 114, 115, 249

Amy Robsart, 148, 149 and _footnote_, 155;
her death, 156, 157, 172, 210

Anne Boleyn, Lady, 36 and _footnote_, 60 and _footnote_

Anne Boleyn, Queen, 24, 36 _f.n._, 60 _f.n._, 65 _f.n._, 68;
her coronation procession, 69, 72, 258, 262 _f.n._

Anne Brown (second wife of Charles Brandon), betrothed to Brandon, 13;
betrothal annulled, 14;
her relationship to Lady Mortimer, Brandon’s other wife, 15 and
_footnote_;
married to Brandon, 16;
her children, her death, 16;
her children legitimized, 62;
their marriages, 63

Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, 22 _f.n._, 47

Anne of Cleves, Queen, 72

Ascham, 94

Aylmer, 95, 96 _f.n._

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 213, 246

Baynard’s Castle, 97, 98

Bertie, Mr., 19 _f.n._;
marries Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, and flies from England, 79;
106;
Mr. Stokes and Hertford consult with him, 136-137

Bess of Hardwick (Mrs. Saintlow), her marriage, 85-86,
her origin, etc., 87, 88, 89, 90, 129, 170, 174

Blanche Parry, 144 and _footnote_, 145, 288 and _footnote_

Boulogne, 7, 29;
Church of Notre Dame at, 30-31, 76, 77 and _footnote_, 33, 75

Bradgate Hall, 83, 93, 298

Brandon, origin of the family of, 7-8

Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk, his extraordinary resemblance to
Henry VIII, 3-5;
his appearance, 4;
his powerful imagination, 5-6;
his parentage, 11;
his education, 12-13;
goes to sea, 13;
is betrothed to Anne Browne, 13;
betrothal annulled, marries Lady Mortimer, 14, 14-15 _f.n._;
his marriage with Lady Mortimer annulled, 16;
marries Anne Browne, 16;
tries to marry Elizabeth Grey, Lady Lisle, 16;
assumes title of Lisle, but relinquishes it, 17;
goes to Flanders, 17;
created Duke of Suffolk, 18;
list of lands bestowed on him, 18 and _footnote_;
makes game of Margaret of Savoy, 20-21;
courts Mary Tudor, 21, 22 _f.n._, 25, 26, 39;
fights in a tournament, 42-43;
Mary Tudor declares her affection for him, 48;
his interview with Mary Tudor, who wishes to marry him, 49-50,
50 _f.n._;
his clandestine marriage with Mary Tudor, 50-51;
letter to Wolsey, 51-52;
received by Henry VIII, remarried to Mary Tudor, 54;
verses by, 56;
attitude of Wolsey towards, quarrels with Wolsey, 56-57;
his London residences, 58;
fights in a tournament, 59;
Lady Mortimer claims connubial rights, 61;
reaffirmation of the dissolution of his marriage with her, 61;
Pope Clement publishes a bull dissolving this marriage, and
legitimizing Anne Browne’s children, 62, 63 _f.n._, 64,
65;
his mistress, and illegitimate offspring, 66 and _footnotes_;
neglects Mary Tudor, 67;
attends Anne Boleyn’s coronation, 68, 69;
behaves rudely to Katherine of Aragon, 68, 71, 72, 74, 75;
writes to Wolsey, 68;
not present at Mary Tudor’s funeral, 70;
his abominable behaviour to Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, and
Katherine Howard, 72;
marries a fourth time, 73;
his children by his fourth wife, Katherine Willoughby, 74 and
_footnote_;
his public career, French campaigns, etc., 75-77;
his last illness and death, 77-78;
his last portrait, 78;
funeral, 78;
his tomb, 78;
his bequests, 78, 244 _f.n._, 293, 294

Brandon, Geoffrey, 8, 302

Brandon, Lady Eleanor, Countess of Cumberland, her birth, 60, 61, 64;
betrothed to Henry Clifford, 69, 295;
attends his mother’s deathbed and funeral, 70, 71;
attends her father’s death-bed, 78, 293;
her appearance, portraits of, 294;
marries Henry Clifford, 294-295;
in peril during the “Pilgrimage of Grace”, 295-296;
rescued, 296;
death of her sons, 296;
her death and burial, 297, 298

Brandon, Lady Frances, Marchioness of Dorset, Duchess of Suffolk
(mother of the Ladies Jane, Katherine and Mary Grey),
15 _f.n._;
her birth, 59;
her baptism, 60, 64;
her marriage, 69;
attends her mother’s death-bed and funeral, 70, 71;
attends her father’s death-bed, 78, 84, 86, 93, 96;
her marriage with Adrian Stokes, 103, 255-256;
portrait of her, 104;
reasons for her marriage, 105-106;
her rights of precedence restored, 107-108, 126;
approves of Lady Katherine’s proposed marriage, falls ill, 132;
is still ill, sends for her daughters, 135;
wishes Lady Katherine to marry Hertford, 136, 138;
her death and burial, 140, 257;
her tomb, 141;
her will, 141, 212, 244 _f.n._, 256, 293, 294, 299, 304

Brandon, Richard, 66 and _footnote_

Brandon, Sir William (father of Charles Brandon), 11;
his marriage, and death at Bosworth, 11

Brandon, son of Charles Brandon (jeweller to Queen Elizabeth), 66 and
_footnote_, 302

Brandon, Thomas, 12

Brandon, William, 9, 10 and _footnote_

Browne, Sir Anthony, 131

Bruyn, Sir Henry, 11 and _footnote_

Cecil, William, Lord Burleigh (Queen Elizabeth’s Chief Secretary),
142, 157;
favours Lady Katherine Grey’s claims, 158-159, 221;
questions Hertford about his courtship of Lady Katherine, 161-162;
questions Lady Katherine, 162-163, 169;
his connection with Lady Katherine’s marriage, 172;
his enmity with Robert Dudley, 172, 187, 213-214;
letters to Cecil, 173 _f.n._, 190-192, 196-197, 199 _f.n._, 200,
201, 203 and _f.n._, 204 and _footnote_, 211, 216, 218, 226
_f.n._, 228 _f.n._, 231, 249, 270-271, 273, 274, 275, 278,
279, 280, 281, 283, 284, 285, 292;
attempts a _coup d’état_, 187-188; 192, 194, 208;
is implicated in Hales’s book in favour of Lady Katherine’s claims,
213, 215, 240, 245;
supports her sons’ claims, 246, 247 _f.n._, 252, 263, 264, 266, 276,
282, 285, 286, 302, 304

Charles, Archduke of Castile and Austria, 17, 19, 21, 26, 47, 49

Claude, Queen of France, 36 _f.n._, 47 and _footnote_

Clement VII, Pope, 62 and _footnote_

Clifford, Henry, Earl of Cumberland (husband of Lady Eleanor Brandon),
69, 70, 295, 296, 297, 298

Clinton, Lady (the “Fair Geraldine”), 130, 131, 204, 257, 268, 288,
300

Cockfield Hall, 227, 229, 230, 231 and _footnote_

Dacre, Lady Magdalen, 115, 123

Darcy, Elizabeth, 11 and _footnote_

Dee, Dr., 144 and _footnote_

De Guaras, Antonio, 246, 247

Derby, Earl of, 286, 299, 303

Dorset, Henry Grey, Marquis of (father of the Ladies Jane, Katherine
and Mary Grey), 15 _f.n._, 43, 69, 70, 76, 83, 86, 91, 93 and
_footnote_, 96, 244 _f.n._, 294

Dorset Place, 83

Dudley, Edmund, 17

Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester, rumours about his relations with
Queen Elizabeth, 146, 148, 156;
death of his wife, 156-157;
rumours of his desire to murder her, 156, 157, 158 and _footnote_,
160;
Lady Katherine’s nocturnal visit to, 171;
reveals her marriage to the Queen, 171, 172;
favours the Earl of Huntingdon’s claim, to the Throne, 184, 185,
187;
opposes Lady Katherine’s claim, 193, 203, 208, 209;
correspondence with Hertford about some gloves for the Queen, 210;
plots for Cecil’s downfall, 213-214, 215, 216, 218, 223;
offers to support Hertford, 224, 240, 245, 249, 251, 282, 286

Edward VI, 76, 77, 94, 95, 96, 98, 104, 188, 244 _f.n._
_See_ Will of Edward VI

Eleanor Brandon, Lady. _See_ Brandon, Lady Eleanor

Elizabeth, Queen, 103, 104, 109, 110;
her reception of Lady Katherine Grey, and fear of her, 133;
her court, her dress, appearance, etc., 134, 137, 138;
pretends great affection for Lady Katherine, 142;
her loss of popularity, 146, 149;
rumours about her relations with Robert Dudley, 146, 148, 156;
believes she will have offspring, 146-147;
unwilling to marry, 147;
refuses King Philip and other Princes, 147-148;
her passion for Dudley, 148, 149;
her dislike of Lady Katherine, 151, 152, 153, 161;
speaks to the Spanish Ambassador about a marriage with Dudley, 155,
156;
hears of his wife’s death, 157-158;
her connivance at Amy Robsart’s murder, 158;
her rumoured marriage with Dudley, 158 _f.n._, 159, 160, 161;
goes on a progress, 165;
learns of Lady Katherine’s marriage, her anger thereat, 171;
her orders to Sir Edward Warner touching Lady Katherine, 174, 175,
182;
falls ill with smallpox, 183;
her recovery, and request to the Council, 185;
her orders for Lady Katherine’s removal from the Tower, 194 and
_footnote_;
Lady Katherine’s petition to, 202;
her indignation at Hales’s pamphlet, 212-214, 220;
Parliament tries to coerce her into naming a successor, 221-223;
she refuses to do so, 221 _et seq._, 250;
her orders to Mr. Roke Green, 226-227;
her orders to Sir Owen Hopton, 227-228;
Lady Katherine’s dying request to, 233, 247;
her treatment of Lady Katherine and Hertford considered, 235-236,
240, 241;
entertained by Hertford, 241;
her kindness to his wife, 242;
wishes to kill Prince James, and place Lady Katherine’s son on the
Scotch Throne, 246;
takes charge of her children, 247;
falls ill, 248;
mention of an alleged illegitimate daughter of, 251;
refuses to name Lady Katherine’s son her successor, 252;
seizes the Greys’ property, 256, 257, 258, 262 and _footnote_, 268
_f.n._;
learns of Lady Mary Grey’s wedding, her anger thereat, 263-264;
her orders to William Hawtrey, 265-266, 273, 274, 276 and
_footnote_, 277;
her gifts to Lady Mary and others, 286-287; 300, 301, 303, 304

Feria, Count de (Spanish Ambassador in England), 102, 129;
his influence over Lady Katherine Grey, 130, 133, 147, 148, 152, 153

Feria, Countess de (Jane Dormer), 115, 130, 152, 153, 195 _f.n._

Francis I, King of France, 40;
falls in love with Mary Tudor, 44-45, 46;
tries to court her, and is refused, 47-48, 50;
tries to propitiate Henry VIII, 51, 53, 76

Gardiner, Stephen, Bishop of Winchester, xxix, 61, 116, 126

Goldwell, Mrs., 262, 263, 265, 267, 268-272, 290

Gosfield Hall, 216, 219 and _footnote_, 220, 225, 229

Green, Mr. Roke, 226, 228, 229

Gresham, Sir Thomas, 278, 282, 284, 285, 290, 292

Grey, Henry, Marquis of Dorset. _See_ Dorset

Grey, Lady Jane, xxviii, 15 _f.n._, 39, 59, 83, 85, 86, 90, 94, 95,
96, 97;
her last letter, to Lady Katherine, 98-101, 98 _f.n._, 120, 122,
153 _f.n._, 175, 188, 235, 255, 256 _f.n._, 298 and
_footnote_

Grey, Lady Katherine, Countess of Hertford, xxviii, 15 _f.n._, 39, 64,
78;
her birth, 83;
her childhood, infantile costume, toys, early education, 84-85;
entry into society, 85, 86, 89;
her travels in 1551, 1552 and 1553, 90-93;
falls ill, her health, 93;
Katherine is not trained to be Queen, contrast between her girlhood
and Lady Jane’s, 94-95;
does not go to Edward VI’s court, 96, 96 _f.n._;
is contracted to Lord Herbert, goes to Baynard’s Castle, 97;
letter to Katherine, from Lady Jane, 98-101;
her betrothal annulled, 101-102;
expresses her willingness to marry Lord Herbert, 102;
goes to court, 107;
accompanies Queen Mary on progresses, 108;
receives a royal pension, 109;
is well treated at Mary’s court, 109;
first public appearance, 111;
assists at marriage of Philip and Mary, 115, 117, 118, 120;
her meeting with the Earl of Hertford, 122;
her lovemaking with him, 125, 127;
goes to Hanworth, 127;
her life at Queen Mary’s court, 128, 129, 131;
declares herself a Catholic, 129; 154;
her friends and friendships, 129-131, 143;
attends Queen Mary’s funeral, 132;
goes to Sheen, progress of Hertford’s courtship, 132, 133;
her reception by Elizabeth, 133;
Elizabeth’s fear of her, 133;
her position as Elizabeth’s successor, 134;
life at Elizabeth’s court, 135;
goes again to Sheen, 135;
her mother desires her to marry Hertford, 136, 138;
negotiations for the marriage, 136-139;
attends her mother’s death and funeral, 140-141, 257;
returns to court, 142;
Elizabeth’s pretended affection for her, 142;
receives distressing news of Hertford, 142;
consults Blanche Parry, 145;
Spain supports her claim to the throne, 149-150;
extraordinary plot for her abduction to Spain, 150-151, 220;
her claims also supported by the Low Church party, 151;
is disliked by Elizabeth, 151;
the plot falls through, 153, 154;
gets out of touch with the Spanish embassy, 155;
Cecil supports her claims, 158;
proposal that she should marry a Spanish Prince, 159, 160, 161;
motives for this alliance, 160;
questioned by Cecil about her feelings for Hertford, 162-163;
pledges her troth to Hertford, 163-164;
has a meeting with Hertford, 164;
goes to his house, 165;
her clandestine marriage with Hertford, 166;
adopts the “froze paste,” or matron’s headdress, 167 and _footnote_;
attends Lady Jane Seymour’s funeral, 168;
secret visits to Hertford, 168-169;
mislays deed of jointure, and confesses her marriage to Mrs.
Saintlow, 170;
her nocturnal visit and confession to Robert Dudley, 171;
her marriage revealed to Elizabeth, 171;
sent to the Tower, 172;
Duchess of Somerset blames her for the marriage, 173, 174 _f.n._,
236;
refuses to confess, 175;
furniture of her apartment in the Tower, 175, 196, 197 and
_footnote_, 176;
her examination and evidence, 178;
gives birth to a son in the Tower, 181;
falls ill, 182;
sentence on her marriage, 183;
renewed agitation in favour of her claims, 184-185;
meeting to endorse her claims, 186;
Cecil’s scheme in favour of, 187-188;
gives birth to a second son, 189;
her case discussed in Parliament, 192-193;
Lord Pembroke and Robert Dudley opposed to her claims, 193;
begs to be removed from the Tower, 194;
removed to Pirgo, 195-196;
her life there, 199;
letter to Cecil, 199 _f.n._;
her unhappiness and ill-health, 200, 201, 203;
petitions Elizabeth, 201;
text of petition, 202;
letter to Cecil, 203 and _footnote_, 204;
her state of poverty, 205 and _footnote_;
inventory of her effects and of her child’s clothing, 205-206
_f.n._;
account of monies paid for her maintenance, and cost thereof,
206 and _footnote_, 207;
her attendants, 207;
Hales’s book in favour of her claims, 212 and _footnote_;
removes from Pirgo, consigned to Sir John Wentworth, 216, 219;
agitation in her favour renewed, 221;
her claims supported by the House of Commons, 221, 222, 223;
remains at Gosfield after Wentworth’s death, 225-226;
Elizabeth’s orders to Sir Owen Hopton respecting her, 227-228;
is conveyed to Ipswich, 229;
cost of her stay there and of journey to Cockfield, 229-230;
falls dangerously ill, the Queen’s doctor sent for, 231;
her last hours, last instructions to Hopton, etc., 232-235;
her death, 235;
Elizabeth’s treatment of her, considered, 235-236;
her remains embalmed, 236;
funeral, 236-238;
cost of same, 237-238 _f.n._;
and of her keep, 237 _f.n._;
her religion, 238 _f.n._;
her burial place, 238-239;
tradition respecting her pet dog, 240, 244 _f.n._, 245, 246, 252,
255, 257, 263, 274, 277, 299, 300.
_See also_ Hertford, Earl of, and Hertford, sons of the Earl of

Grey, Lady Mary, xxviii, 15 _f.n._, 39, 64, 86, 90, 107, 108, 109,
120, 132;
attends her mother’s funeral, 140, 141, 141, 142, 145, 168, 240,
257;
her birth, 255;
contracted to Lord Grey de Wilton, 255;
betrothal annulled, 256;
her childhood, etc., 256-257;
her small stature and appearance, 257-258;
forms the acquaintance of Thomas Keyes, 259;
her visits to him, 261;
her marriage with Keyes, 262-263;
arrested, examined by Privy Council, 265;
her evidence before the Council, 266-267;
removed to “The Chequers,” 273;
writes to Cecil, 273, 274;
arrival at the Minories, 274;
her goods, 275-276;
her stay at the Minories, etc., 277;
her friendship for Lady Bertie, 277;
goes to the Greshams, 278;
uncomfortable life there, 282;
receives news of Keyes’s death, its effect on her, 283;
her care for his children, 283;
letter to Cecil, 283;
is released, her poverty, 285;
her gifts to Elizabeth, 286;
her death and burial, 287;
her will and bequests, 287-290;
her character, 290;
her library, 290-292, 291 _f.n._, 299, 300.
_See also_ Keyes, Thomas

Grey of Pirgo, Lord John (Lady Katherine’s uncle), 93, 109, 152, 194
_f.n._, 195 and _footnote_, 196, 198;
letter of, to Cecil, 199, 200-201, 202, 203, 204 and _footnote_,
211;
put under arrest, 215;
falls ill and dies, 215

Guildford Dudley, 97, 255

Guildford, Lady, 36, 37, 38

Guzman de Silva, Don Diego, Spanish Ambassador, 212 _f.n._, 213, 245

Hales, John, his book in favour of Lady Katherine’s claims, 212 and
_footnote_;
sent to prison, 213, 218

Hampton Court Palace, 4, 121-127

Hanworth, 127, 195, 197, 217

Hawtrey, William, 265, 266, 273, 274, 275

Henry V, xxiii, xxiv _f.n._, xxvii

Henry VI, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, 9

Henry VII, xxiii, xxv, xxviii, xxix, 9

Henry VIII, his likeness to Charles Brandon, 3-5, 18, 19, 20;
arranges a marriage between Mary Tudor and Louis XII of France, 22,
24, 25;
urges Mary Tudor to marry Louis XII, 27, 28;
letter of Mary Tudor to, 37, 49, 51, 52, 53;
receives Mary at Greenwich, and assists at her marriage with
Brandon, 54;
schemes to destroy Brandon, 56;
stands godfather to Mary’s child, and creates him Earl, 58-59, 60,
65, 68, 69;
his piety, 76, 77, 78, 104, 295, 297

Herbert, Lord, 97, 101, 102

Hertford, Edward Seymour, Earl of (husband of Lady Katherine Grey),
102;
his meeting with Lady Katherine, 122;
his courtship of her, 125, 127, 132, 133, 135;
Lady Frances Brandon wishes him to marry Lady Katherine, Mr. Stokes
consults with him, 136, 137;
aids Mr. Stokes to prepare a letter for the Queen, but refuses to
send it, 138-139;
his weak character, 139;
his alleged courtship of Sir Peter Mewtas’s daughter, 142;
sends Katherine a ring, 143;
gets alarmed about the marriage, is questioned by Cecil, 161-162;
pledges his troth to Lady Katherine, and gives her a ring, 163-164;
his verses on this ring, 163, 164;
sends away his servants, 165;
marries Lady Katherine clandestinely, 166;
is sent to France, 169;
his gay life in Paris, 170;
recalled from France, arrested, and sent to the Tower, 176-177;
his examination, and evidence, 177, 178;
proposal to place him on the Throne, 187;
Cecil’s scheme for a _coup d’état_ in his favour, 188;
is brought before Star Chamber, and fined, 189-190;
Sir John Mason’s opinion of him, 191;
removed to Hanworth, 195;
Newdigate persuades him against Lord John Grey, 204-205;
is asked to pay for Lady Katherine’s maintenance, 208;
appeals to Dudley, 209 and _footnote_;
makes gloves for the Queen, 210;
his unhappy life at Hanworth, removed to Sir John Mason’s, 217;
writes to Cecil, 218;
Dudley offers him his support, in the matter of the succession, 224;
his imprisonment becomes more severe, 225, 233, 234, 236;
not present at Lady Katherine’s funeral, 237, 239, 240;
takes his M.A. degree, re-marries, is restored to favour, 241;
death of his second wife, 241;
erects monument to her, and to his mother, marries a third time, is
sent to the Tower afresh, 242;
released, becomes James I’s ambassador, his death, 243;
his tomb, 243-245;
inscription on it, 243 _f.n._

Hertford, sons of the Earl of (Edward and Thomas Seymour), their
births, 181, 189, 242;
movement in favour of their claims to the English throne, 186, 221,
242, 245, 248, 249, 250;
attempts to place them on the Scotch throne, 246-248, 247 _f.n._,
250-251, 252

Hopton, Lady, 232

Hopton, Sir Owen, 227, 228 and _footnote_, 229, 231-236, 237-238
_f.n._, 239, 247

Howard, Lady Frances, 242, 243

Howard, Lord William and Lady, 263, 269, 270-271

Huntingdon, Earl of, 76;
agitation in favour of his claims to the throne, 158-159, 184, 185,
245

James, Prince (afterwards King James I), 59 _f.n._, 243, 244 _f.n._,
248;
attempt to kidnap him, and put an end to him, 247, 250 and
_footnote_, 251, 252

Jane Grey, Lady. _See_ Grey

Jane Seymour, Lady (sister of the Earl of Hertford), Lady

Katherine Grey’s friendship for, 127;
acts as her intermediary, 143, 164, 165;
witnesses Lady Katherine’s wedding, 166;
her death and funeral, 167-168, 177, 178

Katherine Grey, Lady. _See_ Grey

Katherine Howard, Queen, 72

Katherine of Aragon, Queen, 6, 12, 23, 26, 28, 54, 57, 60, 62, 67, 68,
70, 71, 72, 74, 75 and _footnote_

Katherine of Valois, Queen, xxiii;
her meeting with Owen Tudor, xxiv and _footnote_;
her children by Owen, xxvi, xxvii;
banishment and death, xxvi-xxvii.
_See_ Owen Tudor

Katherine Willoughby d’Eresby, Duchess of Suffolk (fourth wife of
Charles Brandon), 19 _f.n._;
her marriage with Brandon, her parentage, etc., 73;
her children, their early deaths, 74, 75;
attends Brandon’s death-bed, 78;
her visitors at the Barbican, 78-79;
re-marries and flies from England, 79, 91 and _footnote_, 106, 136,
137;
Lady Mary Grey lodged with, 274;
complains to Cecil, 275;
her letter to same about Lady Mary’s goods, 275-276, 285, 286, 288,
290 _f.n._, 298

Keyes, Thomas, Sergeant-Porter of the Watergate (husband of Lady Mary
Grey), his antecedents, 258;
his family, extraordinary stature, etc., 259 and _footnote_;
his duties as Porter, 260 and _footnote_;
his private apartment, 260;
marries Lady Mary Grey, 262-263, 264;
sent to the Fleet Prison, 265, 266, 267;
his evidence before the Council, 268;
is to go to Ireland, 278;
is willing to renounce his wife, 279;
discomforts of his life in the Fleet, 278, 279, 280;
is nearly poisoned, 280;
removed to Lewisham, 280;
his last appeal to Cecil, 280-281;
his death 281;
news of same conveyed to Lady Mary, 283

Killigrew, Sir Henry, 250 and _footnote_

Knollys, Henry, 262 and _footnote_

Knollys, Lettice, 261, 262

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of. _See_ Dudley, Robert

Lennox, Countess of. _See_ Margaret Douglas

Lisle, Lady Elizabeth, 16, 17

Lisle, Lady Elizabeth (aunt of above), 17

Louis XII of France, proposed as husband for Mary Tudor, state of his
health, 22 and _footnote_, 27, 28;
his “treaty of marriage,” and marriage by proxy, 28-29;
his meeting with Mary Tudor, 31-32;
and marriage with her, 32-33;
his gifts to Mary Tudor, 33, 38, 42, 46, 52;
objects to her attendants, 33 _et seq._, 40;
his death, 46, 54 _f.n._

Louise of Savoy, 44, 46, 50-51

Maltravers, Lady, 220

Margaret, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, 17, 18;
visits Henry VIII at Tournay, incidents there, 19-21, 26

Margaret Clifford, Lady, 298, 299-304

Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, 115, 184 _f.n._, 193, 250, 286,
299

Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Beaufort, xxix, 295

Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 59, 193

Mary Grey, Lady. _See_ Grey, Lady Mary

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, 76, 90, 96, 133-134, 149, 184 _f.n._,
193, 212 and _footnote_, 221, 223-224, 225, 250, 251

Mary Tudor, Queen of England, xxx, 60, 91, 93, 104, 107, 108, 109;
her court, 110; 111, 128, 129;
her marriage to Philip of Spain, 115-117;
proceeds to Windsor, 118-119;
goes to Suffolk Place, 120;
proceeds to Hampton Court, 121;
her life there, 122-123, 125, 127;
her death, 132, 257, 299

Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Duchess of Suffolk (Charles Brandon’s
third wife), 17, 19-20, 21, 22 and _footnote_, 23;
is told she must marry Louis XII, her refusal, 26-27;
consents to the marriage, “treaty of marriage,” and marriage by
proxy, 28-29;
leaves England, arrival at Boulogne, pageant there, 29, 30;
visits Church of Notre-Dame, 30, 31;
first meeting with Louis XII, 31, 32;
the marriage at Abbeville, 32-33;
trouble over her English attendants, 33-38;
her kindness to them, 35 _f.n._;
makes complaint to Henry VIII and Wolsey, 37;
proceeds to St. Denis, 39;
her coronation as Queen of France, 40;
proceeds to Paris, her entry into, and progress round that city,
40-42;
assists at a tournament, her popularity, 43-44;
court intrigues against her, 45;
her respectability, 45-46;
her mourning for King Louis, 46;
repulses Francis I, 47-48;
tells Brandon she will not leave France without him, 49-50 and
_footnote_;
her clandestine marriage with Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk,
50-51;
her letters to Wolsey and Henry VIII, 52;
hands over her jewelry to Henry VIII, on condition that he
recognizes her marriage with Brandon, 52, 53;
her deed of gift, 52 and _footnote_;
list of her property, 53 _f.n._;
her public re-marriage with Brandon, 54-55;
bridal portraits of, her appearance, etc., 55 and _footnote_;
her residences in London, 58;
gives birth to a son, 58;
receives Charles V, is accorded queenly precedence, 59;
goes on pilgrimage, 59;
gives birth to Lady Frances Brandon, 59;
and to Lady Eleanor Brandon, 60, 61, 64;
is neglected by her husband, death of her son, 67;
lock of her hair sold, 67;
supports Katherine of Aragon, 67;
does not attend Anne Boleyn’s coronation, 68;
her ill health, 68;
death and funeral, 70;
incident at funeral, 71;
her monument, 71 _f.n._; 244 _f.n._, 293

Mason, Sir John, 190 and _footnote_;
his letter to Cecil, 190-192, 217, 218

Merrick, Jane, 277, 289

Monteagle, Mary, Lady, 63;
her portrait, 65;
her husband, 65 _f.n._, 70

Mortimer, Lady Margaret (first wife of Charles Brandon), marries
Brandon, 14;
her antecedents, parentage, pedigree, etc., 14-15 _f.n._;
is aunt to Anne Browne (_q. v._), 15;
her marriage declared null, 16;
claims connubial rights, 61;
Brandon obtains a re-affirmation of the dissolution of the marriage,
61;
appeal to Rome, and Papal bull declaring the marriage void, 62;
her third marriage, 63 and _footnote_;
further confirmation of sentence against the marriage, 64-65, 293,
294

Newdigate, Francis, 106, 195 and _footnote_, 204, 217, 218

Norfolk, Duke of, 3, 22 _f.n._, 28, 35, 160, 185;
favours Lady Katherine Grey’s claims, 186, 221, 223, 245

Northampton, Marchioness of, 86

Northampton, Marquis of, 163

Owen Tudor, supposed pedigree of, xxiii;
appearance of, xxiv, xxviii;
his meeting with Katherine of Valois, xxiv and _footnote_, xxv
_f.n._;
clandestine marriage with her, xxiv;
the marriage discovered, his arrest, xxvi;
his imprisonments and escapes, xxvii;
restored to favour, xxvii;
beheaded, xxviii;
his children, xxviii, xxix, xxx

Pembroke, Earl of, 97-98, 101-102, 114, 185, 193

Petre, Sir William, 216

Philip II of Spain (consort of Queen Mary Tudor I), 102;
arrival in England, 111;
his appearance and manners, 112-113;
his journey to Winchester, 113;
receives a ring from the Queen, 114;
his marriage to Mary Tudor, 115-117, 119;
his rude behaviour to Lady Dacre, 123;
returns to Spain, 127; 129;
courts Queen Elizabeth, 147;
supports Lady Katherine’s claims, 150 and _footnote_, 151;
proposes to abduct her, 150 _f.n._
loses interest in Katherine after her marriage, 173, 214, 299.
_See_ Mary Tudor, Queen of England

Pirgo, 195 and _footnote_, 198, 215, 216

Popincourt, Joan, 33, 34

Powis, Anne, Lady, 63, 64 and _footnote_, 70

Quadra, Don Alvaro de la, Spanish Ambassador, 142, 154, 155, 156, 157,
158, 159, 160, 172, 183, 184 and _footnote_, 188, 193, 213, 218

Richmond, Edmund of Hadham, Earl of, xxv, xxviii-xxix.
_See_ Henry VII

Richmond Palace, 119-120

Robert, the Lord. _See_ Dudley, Robert

Saintlow, Mrs. _See_ Bess of Hardwick

Saintlow, William, 89

Seckford, Mr., 301, 302, 303, 304

Seymour, Edward. _See_ Hertford, Earl of

Seymour, Lady Jane. _See_ Jane Seymour, Lady

Seymour, Lord Henry, 179, 180, 218

Seymour, William, 252