[114] British Museum, Additional MSS., 26, O 56b. Document entitled “Substance of Guaras’ Letters.”
[115] It is most unlikely that the queen had small-pox on both these occasions; probably this second malady was what would now be called chicken-pox.
[116] British Museum, Cottonian MSS., Galba, c. iv.
[117] Spanish State Papers, Elizabeth, vol. ii., p. 490.
[118] Sir Henry Killigrew, brother-in-law of the Marquis of Winchester. Needless to say, his attempt to obtain possession of Prince James, and moreover destroy him, came to nothing, despite that Killigrew was to offer heavy bribes to his guardians. These machinations were principally defeated by the astuteness of De Croc, the French Ambassador.
[119] British Museum, Additional MSS., 26, O 56b.
[120] See, for details of this marriage, the biography of Lady Katherine Grey.
[121] Probably the reason why Lady Jane, when she was despatching loving farewells to her father and Lady Katherine, her sister, did not send a message to Lady Mary, was that she deemed her too young to realize the situation. But it is strange that no mention of her should have been made in the letter to the Lady Katherine on the pages of Jane’s Greek Testament.
[122] The Water-gate was destroyed about 1808; it was very solidly built, and there was a great deal of difficulty in removing it.
[123] A picture of “Queen Elizabeth’s porter” at Hampton Court Palace probably represents Master Keyes.