1Hall’s Chronicle.

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

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

4Grey Friar’s Chronicle (Camden Society), p. 44.

5Martin Hume, Wives of Henry VIII., p. 344.

6Holinshed.

7Strype’s Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer.

8Hall’s Chronicle.

9Spanish Chronicle of Henry VIII., translated by Martin Hume.

10Hayward’s Life of Edward VI.

11Sir H. Ellis, Original Letters.

12Calendar, Henry VIII., vol. xviii., p. 1.

13Speed.

14Chronicle of Henry VIII., translated by Martin Hume.

15Martin Hume, Wives of Henry VIII., p. 438.

16Heylyn’s Reformation.

17Heylyn’s Reformation.

18Andrew Bloxam.

19Calendar of State Papers (Venetian), p. 346.

20It is stated in the Dictionary of National Biography that Lady Jane was attached to the Queen’s household in 1546, but I am unable to discover any proof of the fact. Speed, in his chronicle, makes two or three mentions of her, from which other biographers have concluded that she was in close attendance on Katherine Parr during the King’s lifetime. But it seems clear that he made a confusion between Lady Jane, the King’s great-niece, and Lady Lane, Katherine’s cousin, born Maud Parr, who was at that time a member of her household.

21Naunton.

22Foxe, Acts and Monuments.

23Grey Friars’ Chronicle (Camden Society), p. 50.

24G. Leti, Vie d’Elizabeth, Reine d’Angleterre, t. i., p. 153.

25Grey Friars’ Chronicle (Camden Society), p. 51.

26Ellis’s Original Letters, Series II., vol. ii., p. 176.

27Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Life of Henry VIII., p. 537.

28N. D., quoted, with disapproval, by Speed.

29Lingard, History, vol. v., p. 200.

30Foxe, Acts and Monuments.

31Dr. Lingard, quoting the narrative attributed to Anne, credits neither it nor the addition for which Foxe is responsible, stating that there is no other instance of a woman being subjected to torture, that a written order from the Lords of the Council was necessary before it could be inflicted, and that it was not customary for either the Chancellor or his colleagues to be present on these occasions.—History, vol. v., p. 201.

32Foxe, Acts and Monuments.

33Life of Henry VIII., p. 561.

34Speed, and Miss Strickland following him, read the name “Jane.”

35Acts and Monuments, Speed’s Chronicle, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, etc.

36Bapst, Deux Gentilshommes PoËtes, p. 275.

37Bapst, Deux Gentilshommes PoËtes, p. 287.

38Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Life of Henry VIII., p. 564.

39Ibid., p. 563.

40Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England (translated by Martin Hume), p. 182.

41Chronicle of Henry VIII. (tr. by Martin Hume), p. 152.

42Bapst, Deux Gentilshommes PoËtes, p. 346.

43Grey Friars’ Chronicle, p. 52.

44Chronicle of Henry VIII. (tr. by Martin Hume), p. 147.

45Chronicle of Henry VIII. (tr. by Martin Hume), p. 148.

46Foxe, Acts and Monuments, vol. v., p. 689.

47History of the World.

48Chronicle of Henry VIII. (tr. by Martin Hume), p. 152.

49Acts and Monuments, vol. v., p. 689.

50Acts and Monuments, vol. v., p. 691.

51Literary Remains of Edward VI., Roxburgh Club, ed. Nichols.

52Hayward’s Life of Edward VI., p. 82.

53Leti, Vie de la Reine Elizabeth, p. 166.

54Haynes, State Papers. It is difficult to distinguish between statements relating to the negotiations with regard to Lady Jane carried on at this date, and those taking place eighteen months later.

55Tytler, England under Edward VI. and Mary, vol. i.

56Fuller’s Worthies.

57Leti, Vie de la Reine Elizabeth, p. 163.

58Chronicle of Henry VIII., p. 158.

59Leti, Vie de la Reine Elizabeth, p. 170.

60Haynes, State Papers.

61An Historical Account of Sudeley Castle.

62Quoted by Strype.

63Chronicle of Henry VIII., p. 156.

64Hayward, Life of Edward VI., p. 82.

65Heylyn’s Reformation, p. 71.

66Haynes, State Papers.

67Ibid.

68Haynes, State Papers.

69State Papers. Quoted in Strickland’s Queens of England, vol. iii., p. 272.

70Haynes, State Papers.

71Haynes, State Papers.

72Leti is responsible for it.

73Haynes, State Papers, p. 96.

74Tytler, Edward and Mary, vol. i., p. 70.

75Haynes, State Papers, p. 61.

76Ibid.

77Quoted Remains of Edward VI.

78Tytler, Edward and Mary, vol. i.

79Haynes, State Papers, pp. 103, 104.

80Miss Strickland, Queens of England, vol. iii., p 281.

81Haynes, State Papers, pp. 77, 78.

82Haynes, State Papers, pp. 78, 79.

83Tytler, Edward VI. and Mary, vol. i., p. 134.

84Haynes, State Papers, p. 76.

85Ibid., pp. 79, 80.

86Chronicle of King Henry VIII., p. 163.

87Haynes, State Papers, p. 89.

88Haynes, State Papers.

89Haynes, State Papers, p. 109.

90Haynes, State Papers, p. 98.

91Haynes, State Papers, p. 108.

92Haynes, State Papers, p. 71.

93Haynes, State Papers, p. 106.

94Latimer’s Sermons, quoted by Lingard, History, vol. v., p. 279.

95Leti, Vie de la Reine Elizabeth.

96Lingard, History, vol. v., p. 293.

97Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials, vol. ii., p. 2.

98Tytler, Edward VI. and Mary, vol. i., p. 174.

99Holinshed, vol. iii., p. 1014.

100Chronicle of King Henry VIII., p. 187.

101See Tytler, Edward VI. and Mary, vol. i., p. 241. Dr. Lingard expresses doubts as to the document upon which Tytler relies, and Froude acquits the Council of treachery.

102Tytler, Edward VI. and Mary, vol. i., p. 242.

103Chronicle of King Henry VIII., p. 192.

104Foxe, Acts and Monuments, vol. vi., pp. 351, 352.

105Ascham describes her as fifteen—a manifest error.

106Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster, bk. ii.

107Ascham, The Schoolmaster, bk. i.

108Zurich Letters, Parker Society.

109Ibid.

110Zurich Letters, vol. ii., Parker Society, p. 399.

111Ibid., p. 427.

112Zurich Letters, vol. ii., p. 430.

113Zurich Letters, p. 433.

114There is little mention of Lady Jane’s mother in contemporary records. But the nature of the woman, and her heritage of Tudor blood, is sufficiently indicated by the fact that not a fortnight after her husband had been executed, and about a month after Lady Jane’s death she bestowed herself in marriage upon her equerry.

115Becon’s Jewel of Joy, Parker Society.

116Zurich Letters, p. 103.

117Zurich Letters, vol. i., p. 5.

118Zurich Letters, vol. i., p. 72.

119Zurich Letters, vol. i., pp. 76, 77.

120Church History, vol. i., p. 338.

121Church History, vol. i., p. 340.

122Zurich Letters, vol. ii., p. 441.

123Fuller’s Church History, vol. i., p. 341.

124Ellis’s Original Letters, Series III., vol. i., p. 216.

125Heylyn’s Reformation, vol. ii., p. 7.

126Soranzo’s Report (Venetian Calendar), p. 535.

127Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials, vol. ii., p. 2.

128Venetian Calendar, p. 535.

129Fuller’s Church History, vol, i., p. 345.

130Zurich Letters, vol. ii., p. 466. Meaning that Cranmer, who had already been married some years, had brought his wife from Germany, and owned her openly. See Strype.

131Two victims were burnt for heresy, Joan Bocher and a Dutch surgeon, named Pariss. A priest is also stated by Wriothesley to have been hanged and quartered, July 7, 1548.

132Zurich Letters, pp. 281 et seq.

133Foxe, Acts and Monuments, vol. vi., pp. 354-5. Heylyn’s Reformation.

134Speed’s Chronicle, p. 1122.

135Heylyn’s Reformation, vol. i., p. 291.

136Rosso, Succesi d’Inghilterra, p. 5.

137Wriothesley’s Chronicle, vol. ii., p. 82.

138Ibid.

139Florio’s Life, p. 27.

140Ibid., p. 28.

141Ibid.

142Heylyn’s Reformation, p. 297.

143Ambassades de Noailles; Griffet, Nouveaux Éclaircissements sur l’Histoire de Marie.

144Wriothesley’s Chronicle, vol. ii., p. 79.

145Reformation, vol. i., p. 294.

146Heylyn’s Reformation, vol. i., p. 294.

147Griffet, Éclaircissements, etc., p. 16.

148Ambassades de Noailles, vol. i., p. 49.

149Ibid., p. 57.

150Quoted in Strickland’s Queen Mary.

151Fuller’s Church History, vol. i., pp. 369 et seq.

152Rosso, Succesi d’Inghilterra.

153Griffet’s Éclaircissements, etc.

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

155The 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.

156History of Syon Monastery, Aungier.

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

158Speed’s Chronicle, p. 1127.

159Heylyn 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.

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

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

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

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

164Heylyn’s Reformation.

165Griffet, Nouveaux Éclaircissements.

166Strype’s Memorials.

167Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, ed. John Nichols (Camden Society), App., pp. 116-121.

168The foregoing details are mostly taken from Stowe’s Chronicle. At this point The Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary by a Resident in the Tower (Camden Society), takes up the tale. The anonymous author plainly speaks from personal knowledge, and is the principal authority for this period.

169Grafton’s Chronicle.

170Heylyn’s Reformation.

171Fuller’s Worthies.

172Tytler’s Edward and Mary, vol. ii., p. 202.

173Rosso’s Succesi.

174Rosso’s Succesi.

175Quoted in Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 11.

176This fact, together with Sir Nicholas’s subsequent trial, seems to throw doubt upon the veracity of his versified account of the services he had rendered to Mary.

177Biog. Brit. Quoted in Lady Jane Grey’s Literary Remains.

178L’Istoria Ecclesiastica della Rivoluzione d’Inghilterra. Pollini, pp. 274, 275. Rosso’s Succesi, p. 20.

179M. A. Florio, Vita, pp. 58, 59.

180Dictionary of National Biography.

181Rosso, Succesi, p. 23.

182Chronicle of Queen Jane, etc., pp. 10, 11.

183Foxe, Acts and Monuments.

184Chronicle of Queen Jane, etc. p. 16.

185Rosso.

186Vie d’Elizabeth, p. 198.

187Griffet, Nouveaux Éclaircissements, p. 23.

188Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 16.

189Griffet, Nouveaux Éclaircissements, p. 25.

190Griffet, Nouveaux Éclaircissements, pp. 26, 27.

191Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 24.

192Edward and Mary, vol. ii., p. 224.

193Peerage of England (1799), vol. ii., p. 406. Quoted in Strickland’s Queens of England.

194Lingard, History, vol. v., pp. 390, 391.

195Ibid., p. 391.

196Tytler, Edward and Mary, vol. ii., p. 227.

197Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, from which the following details of the execution are mostly taken.

198Peerage of England (1709), vol. ii., p. 406. Quoted in Miss Strickland’s Queens.

199Griffet, Nouveaux Éclaircissements, p. 55.

200Dr. Nichols suggests that Partridge may have been Queen Mary’s goldsmith of that name, apparently resident in the Tower during the following year.

201Lingard, History, vol. v., p. 393.

202Griffet, Nouveaux Éclaircissements, p. 65.

203Griffet, Nouveaux Éclaircissements, p. 60.

204Lingard, History, vol. v., p. 401.

205Speed’s Chronicle.

206Griffet, Nouveaux Éclaircissements, pp. 125-6.

207Griffet, Nouveaux Éclaircissements, p. 127.

208Lingard, History, vol. v., p. 411.

209Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 34.

210Griffet, Nouveaux Éclaircissements, p. 118.

211Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 38 et seq.

212Ibid.

213Speed’s Chronicle, p. 1133.

214Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 54.

215Rosso, Succesi d’Inghilterra, p. 53.

216Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey, 1615, p. 22.

217It will be seen that the bearing of the two opponents on the scaffold would seem to give the lie to this account of their interview; unless, the heat of argument over, both should have regretted what had passed.

218Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey, 1615, p. 25.

219Rosso, Succesi, etc., p. 57.

220Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary.

221Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey, 1615, p. 30.

222Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, pp. 54-6. The author, “resident in the Tower,” was doubtless an eye-witness of the scene.

223Rosso, Succesi d’Inghilterra, etc., pp. 57, 58.