I’ve just finished reading the excellent ‘Children of Henry VIII’ by John Guy. I don’t think I had read this quote about Guildford Dudley before?
‘Edward had the highest regard for Guildford, intriguingly describing him some time after the wedding to the councillors standing around his sickbed as ‘one of the sons of our guardian, the duke of Northumberland, and a man, unless I am mistaken, born to achieve celebrity; from him you may expect great things.’ (p. 143, Guy)
Guy also writes that:
‘Jane, stripped of the crown jewels and her canopy of state, was led from the royal apartments and put under house arrest at the home of William Partridge, am officer in thr royal ordnance within the Tower.’ (p. 148, Guy)
Eric Ives describes the former queen as being taken to ‘the house of Nathaniel Partridge, the gentlemen –gaoler.’ (p.249, Ives)
