‘Killing Monarchs: Regicide in the Tudor and Stuart Age’ by Richard Heath added to the General Works section of the bibliography.
Entries added to the following:
Primary Accounts – Birth, Ascham
Art – Other Representations – Van de Passe
Writings of Lady Jane Grey – Letters – Letter to Mary, Farewell Letters – Letter to Katherine Grey and Letters to Father, Message to Sir John Brydges and Speech from Scaffold and Farewell Statement.
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A document from Jane’s brief reign in the summer of 1553 is up for auction.
Auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull describe the document as:
‘Tower of London, 17th July 1553
Single bifolium (31 x 21cm, hand-and-flower watermark), the body of the letter written on one side, comprising 18 lines in a secretary hand, above the autograph signatures of 12 privy councillors.
…the letter is a warrant addressed to Armagil Waad (Wade), clerk of the privy council, authorising him to disburse payments to various couriers for delivering ‘hir maiesties letters’, presumably the official announcement of Jane’s accession and accompanying demand for loyalty, to several named regional power-brokers whose support of Mary must have been known to the councillors.’
The auction will take place on Wednesday 25 February.
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Lady Jane’s conference with Dr Feckenham
In the days before her execution, Jane wrote a farewell letter to her sister Katherine.
Jane also wrote a farewell message to her father, in the prayerbook she carried to the scaffold.
Jane wrote a farewell message to Sir John Brydges (the Lieutenant of the Tower), in the prayer book she carried to the scaffold.
Jane and Guildford were executed at the Tower of London.
