{"id":19157,"date":"2025-12-17T13:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=19157"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:16:56","slug":"17-18-december-1553-jane-is-given-permission-to-walk-in-the-queens-garden-at-the-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=19157","title":{"rendered":"17\/18 December 1553 &#8211; Jane is given permission to walk in the Queen\u2019s garden at the Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>From the Acts of the Privy Council:<\/p>\n<p><i>At Westminster, the xvij of December, 1553<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;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<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>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<p><i>\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<p><BR><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6252\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tower_plan1597.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6252\" src=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tower_plan1597-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"From The Anne Boleyn Files\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tower_plan1597-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Tower_plan1597.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From The Anne Boleyn Files<\/p><\/div>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>h marks the Queen\u2019s Gallery and Garden.<\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Acts of the Privy Council: At Westminster, the xvij of December, 1553 &#8216;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=19157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[295],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-19157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-this-day-2","tag-on-this-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19159,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19157\/revisions\/19159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}