{"id":8427,"date":"2014-02-19T21:29:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?page_id=8427"},"modified":"2014-02-19T21:37:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:37:05","slug":"tower-of-london-29-august-1553","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?page_id=8427","title":{"rendered":"Tower of London – 29 August 1553"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The author of \u2018The Chronicle of Queen Jane\u2019 dines with Lady Jane.<\/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.229, Jones)<\/p>\n


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\nOn the 29th August 1553, Rowland Lee, ‘an official at the Royal Mint’ (p.133, de Lisle) and 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, dined at Nathaniel Partridge\u2019s house where Lady Jane was being held. The author was surprised to find Jane seated at the table when he arrived and afterwards recorded their conversation in his chronicle.<\/p>\n

Eric Ives writes, ‘We do not know what Lea’s religious opinions were, but the meeting with Jane may have been responsible for the considerable interest his account appears to have taken in her future.’ (p.251, Ives).<\/p>\n


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


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\u2018Note, that on tuisdaie the xxixth of Auguste, I dyned at Partrige\u2019s house with my lady Jane, being ther present, she sitting at the bordes end, Partige, his wife, Jacob my ladyes gentill woman, and hir man. She commanding Partrige and me to put on our capes, emongest our communycacion at the dyner, this was to be noted: after she had one or twice droncke to me and bad me hartellie welcome, saithe she, \u201cThe queens majesty is a merciful princes; I beseche God she may long continue, and sende his bountefull grace apon hir.\u201d After that, we fell in\u2026mattiers of religion; and she axed what he was that preched at Polles on sonday before; and so it was tolde hir to be one\u2026 \u201cI praie you,\u201d quod I, \u201cin some places.\u201d \u201cYt may so be,\u201d quod she, \u201cyt is not so strange as the sodden convertyon of the late duke; for who woulde have thought,\u201d saide she, \u201che would have so don?\u201d Yt was aunwered her, \u201cPerchance he thereby hoped to have had his pardon.\u201d \u201cPardon?\u201d quod she; \u201cwo worthe him! he hath brought me and our stocke in most miserable callamyty and mysery by his exceeding ambicion. But for th\u2019 aunswering that he hoped for life by his tourning, thoughe other men be of that opinion, I utterly am not; for what man is ther lyving, I pray you, although he had been innocent, that wolde hope of life in that case; being in the felde ageinst the queen in person as generall, and after his taking so hated and evell spoken of by the comons? and at his coming into prison so wonderyed at as the like was never harde by any man\u2019s tyme. Who was judge that he shoulde hope for pardon, whose life was odyous to all men? But what will ye more? Like as his life was wicked and full of dissimulaciom, so was his ende thereafter. I pray God, I, nor no frende of myne, dye so. Shoulde I, who (am) yonge and in my fewers, forsake my faythe for the love of lyfe? Nay, God forbed: moche more he should not, whose fatall course allthoughe he had lyved his just noumber of yeres, could not have long continued. But life was swete, it appeered; so he might have lyved, you will saye, he dyd (not) care howe. Indede the reason is goode; for he that wolde have lyved in chaynes to have had his lyfe, by like wold leave no other meane attempted. But God be mercyfull to us, for he sayeth, Whoso denyeth him before men, he will not knowe him in his Father\u2019s kingdome.\u201d With this and moche like talke the dyner passyd away; which ended, I thanked her ladyship that she would witsafe accept me in hir companye; and she thancked me likewise, and sayd I was wellcoem. She thancked Partrige also for brining me to dyner. \u201cMadam,\u201d saide he, \u201cwee wer somewhat bolde, not knowing that your ladyship dyned belowe untyll we fonde your ladyship ther.\u201d And so Partrige and I departed.\u2019 (p.24-26, Nichols)<\/i><\/p>\n


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


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

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From \u2018A view of London, Westminster and Southwark, as they appeared A.D. 1543. 19th Century engraving by Nathaniel Whittock from a drawing by Antony van den Wyngaerde\u2019
Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n


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From The Anne Boleyn Files<\/p><\/div>\n

The Queen\u2019s House was formerly the Lieutenant\u2019s Lodgings and Nathaniel Partridge\u2019s house is between c \u2013 the Beauchamp Tower (where Guildford Dudley was held) and i \u2013 the Lieutenant\u2019s Lodging<\/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

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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\"The<\/a>

The Tower of London<\/p><\/div>\n


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\"Site<\/a>

Site of Nathaniel Partridge’s House<\/p><\/div>\n


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


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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 \u2013 Places<\/a><\/p>\n

Wikipedia – Panorama of London<\/a><\/p>\n


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