{"id":7841,"date":"2013-12-18T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T10:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?page_id=7841"},"modified":"2016-03-30T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:02:08","slug":"tower-of-london-1718-december-1553","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?page_id=7841","title":{"rendered":"Tower of London – 17\/18 December 1553"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Jane is given permission to walk in the Queen\u2019s garden at the Tower<\/b><\/p>\n


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\u2018The fortress would become in rapid succession her palace, her prison, her scaffold \u2013 and her tomb.\u2019 <\/i> (p.299, Jones)<\/p>\n


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On the 17th of December 1553, the Privy Council granted Lady Jane Dudley permission to walk in the Queen\u2019s garden at the Tower of London.<\/p>\n

Eric Ives writes that \u2018not until 17\/18 December was she given \u2018the liberty of the Tower\u2019 so that she could walk in the queen\u2019s garden<\/i>.\u2019 (p.214, Ives)<\/p>\n

Leanda de Lisle describes how, \u2018It was bliss for Jane to walk in the crisp winter air after months spent in her dark rooms in the Tower. From 18th December she had the freedom to walk in the Queen\u2019s garden.\u2019<\/i> ( p. 138, de Lisle)<\/p>\n


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From the Acts of the Privy Council:<\/p>\n

At Westminster, the xvij of December, 1553<\/p>\n

‘A letter to the Lieutenant of the Towre, willing hym at convenient tymes by his discreation to suffer the late Duke of Northumbreland\u2019s children to have the libertie of walke within the gardeyn of the Tower, and also to minister the like favour to the Ladye Jane and Doctour Cranmer, upon suggestion that diverse of them be and have byn evill at ease in their bodyes for want of ayre.\u2019 <\/i> (p. 379, Acts of the Privy Council)<\/p>\n


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The author of \u2018The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat\u2019 wrote:<\/p>\n

\u2018The xviijth day, the lady Jane had the libertie of the Tower, so she might walk in the queens garden and on the hille; and the lorde Robert and lorde Gilford the liberty of the leds in the Bell Tower\u2026\u2019<\/i> (p.33, Gough)<\/p>\n


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Location<\/b><\/p>\n

The Tower of London is in central London on the north bank of the Thames.<\/p>\n


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h marks the Queen\u2019s Gallery and Garden.<\/p>\n


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Some Key Dates in the Tudor History of the Tower of London<\/b><\/p>\n


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\u20181503 \u2013 11 February \u2013 Queen Elizabeth of York dies just over a week after giving birth.<\/p>\n

1509 \u2013 21 June \u2013 King Henry VIII arrives at the Tower to prepare for his coronation.<\/p>\n

1536 \u2013 19 May \u2013 Anne Boleyn is executed.<\/p>\n

1542 \u2013 13 February \u2013 Katherine Howard and Lady Jane Rochford are executed.<\/p>\n

1547 \u2013 19 February \u2013 King Edward VI leaves for his coronation procession.<\/p>\n

1553 \u2013 10 July \u2013 Queen Jane takes possession of the Tower.<\/p>\n

1553 \u2013 19 July \u2013 Queen Jane\u2019s reign ends at the Tower.<\/p>\n

1553 \u2013 3 August \u2013 Queen Mary I takes possession of the Tower.<\/p>\n

1553 \u2013 22 August \u2013 John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland is executed.<\/p>\n

1553 – 29 August – The author of the ‘Chronicle of Queen Jane etc’ dines with Lady Jane at Nathaniel Partridge’s house.<\/p>\n

1553 \u2013 17\/18 December \u2013 Lady Jane is granted permission to walk in the Queen\u2019s garden.<\/p>\n

1554 \u2013 12 February \u2013 Lady Jane and Lord Guildford Dudley are executed.<\/p>\n

1554 \u2013 23 February \u2013 Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk is executed.<\/p>\n

1558 \u2013 12 January \u2013 Elizabeth I arrives to prepare for her coronation.\u2019<\/p>\n

From \u2018On This Day in Tudor History by Claire Ridgway.\u2019<\/p>\n


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The Tower of London Today<\/b><\/p>\n


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Sources<\/u><\/p>\n

Dasent, J.R (ed) (1892) Acts of the Privy Council of England volume 4 \u2013 1552-1554, pp. 379. URL: http:\/\/www.british-history.ac.uk\/source.aspx?pubid=1179&sp=3&pg=379<\/a> Date accessed: 17 December 2013<\/p>\n

De Lisle, L. (2010) The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey, HarperPress.<\/p>\n

Ives, E. (2009) Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, Wiley-Blackwell.<\/p>\n

Jones, N. (2011) Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London, Windmill Books<\/p>\n

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>\n

Ridgway, C. (2012) On This Day in Tudor History, Made Global Publishing.<\/p>\n

The Anne Boleyn Files<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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