CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction[xiii]
CHAP.
I.Bradgate Hall and the Greys of Groby[1]
II.Birth and Education[14]
III.The Lady Latimer[28]
IV.The King’s Household[42]
V.Mrs. Anne Askew[58]
VI.The Howards and the Seymours[73]
VII.Henry viii[100]
VIII.Concerning the Lady Jane and the Queen-Dowager[115]
IX.The Queen and the Lord High-Admiral[136]
X.The Lady Jane goes to Seymour Place[147]
XI.The Education of Lady Jane[168]
XII.John Dudley, Earl of Warwick[190]
XIII.The Fall of the House of Somerset[208]
XIV.The Lady Jane marries the Lord Guildford[221]
XV.On the Way to the Tower[238]
XVI.The Lady Jane is proclaimed Queen[249]
XVII.The Nine Days’ Reign[256]
XVIII.The Last Days of Northumberland[289]
XIX.The Trial of Queen Jane[310]
XX.The Supreme Hour![328]
XXI.The Fate of the Survivors[348]
Appendix[359]
Index[365]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Lady Jane Grey
From the Painting by Lucas de Heere at Althorp. (Photograph by Hanfstaengl)
[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk
From the Painting by Joannes Corvus, in the National Portrait Gallery
[12]
Queen Katherine Parr
After the Painting formerly in the possession of Horace Walpole
[30]
Henry viii in 1547
From an old Engraving
[48]
Roger Ascham’s Visit to Lady Jane Grey at Bradgate
After the Painting by J. C. Horsley, R.A.
[172]
John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland
From an Engraving by G. Vertue
[192]
Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset
From an Engraving after the Painting by Holbein
[208]
Supposed Portrait of Lady Jane Grey
Formerly in the Collection of Col. Elliott of Nottingham, and now at Oxford University. From an Engraving after the Painting by Holbein
[224]
Edward vi
From an Engraving by G. Vertue
[246]
Lady Jane Grey by Wyngaerde
The earliest engraved Portrait of her, from a Picture said to be by Holbein, now lost
[270]
Queen Mary at the Period of her Marriage
From the Painting by Antonio Mor, in the Prado Museum. (Photograph by R. Anderson)
[322]
Portrait of the Lady Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, and her Second Husband, Adrian Stokes, Esq.
Probably by Corvinus, property of Col. Wynn Finch
[352]

INTRODUCTION