Thus died Lady Jane Grey, most guiltless of traitors; who, to quote Fuller’s panegyric, possessed, at sixteen, the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, and the gravity of old, age; who had had the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, and the death of a malefactor.


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FOOTNOTES

[1] Hall’s Chronicle.

[2] Martin Hume, The Wives of Henry VIII., p. 447.

[3] Ellis’s Original Letters, Series III., vol. iii., p. 203.