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On the 17th it was the turn of Jane\u2019s father to face trial for treason. The diarist, Henry Machyn noting, \u2018 the duke of Suffoke rayned at Westmynster halle, and cast for he tresun, and cast to suffer deth.\u2019 (1) The author of \u2018The Chronicle of Queen Jane\u2019 observed the Duke leaving the Tower for trial and his return, \u2018who at his going out went very stoutely and cherfully enough, but his coming here he landed at the water gate with a countenance very hevy and pensyfe, desiring all men to praye for him.\u2019 (2)<\/p>\n
In Simon Renard\u2019s despatch to the Emperor, he wrote, \u2018Here in London executions have taken place in twenty or thirty different places, and one sees nothing but gibbets and hanged men. The Ambassdor also commented that the Lady Elizabeth was still on her journey to London as she \u2018 is so unwell that she only travels two or three leagues a day.\u2019 (3)<\/p>\n
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1.’Diary: 1554 (Jan – June)’, in The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, 1550-1563, ed. J G Nichols (London, 1848), pp. 50-66. British History Online http:\/\/www.british-history.ac.uk\/camden-record-soc\/vol42\/pp50-66<\/a> [accessed 15 February 2022]. On the 17th it was the turn of Jane\u2019s father to face trial for treason. The diarist, Henry Machyn noting, \u2018 the duke of Suffoke rayned at Westmynster halle, and cast for he tresun, and cast to suffer deth.\u2019 (1) … Continue reading
\n2.Nichols, J. G (ed) (1850) The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt, Written by a Resident in the Tower of London, Llanerch Publishers, p.60.
\n3.’Spain: February 1554, 16-20′, in Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 12, 1554, ed. Royall Tyler (London, 1949), pp. 100-123. British History Online http:\/\/www.british-history.ac.uk\/cal-state-papers\/spain\/vol12\/pp100-123<\/a> [accessed 15 February 2022].<\/p>\n
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