A letter written by Queen Mary I during Wyatt’s rebellion has sold at auction.
The letter mentions Lady Jane and that her father, Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk is involved in the rebellion.
The letter was auctioned by Lyon & Turnbull on 5th February 2025.
‘‘And whereas our traitor the Duke of Suffolk forgetting his naturall dutie of allegiaunce to god and us and our great mercie and grace lately shewed unto him in pardonying his horrible treatson perpetrated with the traitor the late Duke of Northumberland against our Royall personne, hath with John Graye and Thomas Graye his bretherne and the Carewes and Wyat of Kent with others conspired togithere to stirre our subjects in Kent and elsewhere to rebell against us pretending upon false rumors spredd that the prince of Spayne and the Spaniards shulde come in to conquer this realme, whiche the saide traitors make their onely grounde to buylde their onely treason on, tending thereby to blynde our good subjects while in very dede they trayterousely propose tadvaunce the Ladie Jane his daughter and Guldeford Dudley her husband, the saide Duke of Northumberlands son’.
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East Anglian Daily Times – Queen Mary letter about Duke of Suffolk sells for £37K
