Lady Jane Grey and Her Times

by Ida A. Taylor

[154] Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, vol. vi., p. 352.

[155] The paper is only to be found in two Italian histories, Pollini’s Istoria Ecclesiastica della Rivoluzione d’Inghilterra and Raviglio Rosso’s account of the events following upon Edward’s death, stated to be partly drawn from the despatches of Bodoaro. The discrepancies here and there in the translation point to both having had access to an English version.

[156] History of Syon Monastery, Aungier.

[157] Chronicle of Queen Jane (Camden Society), p. 2.

[158] Speed’s Chronicle, p. 1127.

[159] Heylyn makes Durham House the scene of the announcement. In this he seems clearly to be mistaken, as it is stated in the Grey Friar’s Chronicle that she was brought down the river from Richmond to Westminster, and so to the Tower.

[160] The Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary (Camden Society), p. 3.

[161] Letter from Jane to Mary, Pollini’s Istoria Ecclesiastica della Rivoluzione d’Inghilterra, pp. 355-8.

[162] Rosso, Succesi d’Inghilterra, p. 13.

[163] Rosso, Succesi d’Inghilterra, p. 9.