Farewell Message to Sir John Brydges

At his request Lady Jane Grey wrote a farewell message to Sir John Brydges, the Lieutenant of the Tower of London. She wrote it in her prayerbook which she gave to Sir John on the scaffold. Howard and Taylor name him as Sir John Gage and Davey as Sir Thomas Brydges.

A copy of this message can be found in the following:

Child-Life and Girlhood of Remarkable Women by W H D Adams

Notices of the Historic Persons Buried in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London: with an account of the discovery of the supposed remains of Queen Anne Boleyn by Doyne C Bell

Lady Jane Grey by Hester W Chapman

The Nine Days' Queen: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by Richard Davey

Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by George Howard

The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey by Mary Luke

Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: With a Memoir of Her Life by Nicholas H Nicolas

Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk by Alison Plowden

Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen by Alison Plowden

Mary Tudor: The First Queen by Linda Porter. Extract only.

Lives of the Tudor Princesses by Agnes Strickland

Documents of Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen of England 1553 by James D Taylor Jr

Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England by Maureen Waller. Extract only.

Children of England by Alison Weir

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir. Extract only.

The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black Legend of the Dudleys by Derek Wilson

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