To try and save Jane’s soul after her father’s involvement in Wyatt’s failed uprising led to Mary signing Jane’s death warrant, Queen Mary sent Dr Feckenham to Jane to try and convert her to Catholicism. Jane and her husband were originally due to die on February 9 but their executions were postponed to the 12th, to give Dr Feckenham time to try and achieve this. The religious debate that ensued between Lady Jane and Dr Feckenham was recorded and published in Foxe’s ‘Acts and Monuments’. Dr Feckenham failed to change Jane’s beliefs and asked to accompany her to the scaffold, to which she agreed.
A full transcript of the debate can be found in the following:
Lady Jane Grey: Nine Day Queen of England Faith Cook
Acts and Monuments Volume VI by J Foxe
The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey by Mary Luke
Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey by Nicholas H Nicolas
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey by Nicola Tallis
Documents of Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen of England 1553 by James D Taylor Jr
State Trials, 1 Mary, 1553 – and others for High Treason
Extracts from their debate can be found in the following:
Henry VIII’s Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors by David Baldwin
Lady Jane Grey by Hester W Chapman
Exploring the Lives of Women 1558-1837 by Louise Duckling and Sara Read et al
Silent But For The Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works edited by Margaret Patterson Hannay
Tower of London by Christopher Hibbert
Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by George Howard
The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens by Roland Hui
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey by Leanda de Lisle
Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk by Alison Plowden
Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen by Alison Plowden
Princely Education in Early Modern Britain by Aysha Pollnitz
Lady Jane: From the screenplay by David Edgar by A C H Smith
