Letters from Edinburgh, London, 1776. See also, Letters from a Gentleman in Scotland to his Friend in England (commonly called Burt's Letters): London, 1754.
LADY KATHERINE GREY.
(Vol. vi., p. 578.)
There appears to be some doubt if the alleged marriage ever did take place, for I find, in Baker's Chronicles, p. 334., that in 1563 "divers great persons were questioned and condemned, but had their lives spared," and among them—
"Lady Katherine Grey, daughter to Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, by the eldest daughter of Charles Brandon, having formerly been married to the Earl of Pembroke's eldest son, and from him soon after lawfully divorced, was some years after found to be with child by Edward Seymour Earl of Hartford, who, being at that time in France, was presently sent for: and being examined before the Archbishop of Canterbury, and affirming they were lawfully married, but not being able within a limited time to produce witnesses of their marriage, they were both committed to the Tower."
After some further particulars of the birth of a second child in the Tower, the discharge of the Lieutenant, Sir Edward Warner, and the fining of the Earl by the Star Chamber, to the extent of 5000l., the narrative proceeds:
"Though in pleading of his case, one John Hales argued they were lawful man and wife by virtue of their own bare consent, without any ecclesiastical ceremony."
Collins, in his Peerage (1735), states:
"The validity of this marriage being afterwards tried at Common Law, the minister who married them being present, and other circumstances agreeing, the jury (whereof John Digby, Esq., was foreman) found it a good marriage."