Captivity

During her captivity in the Tower of London, Lady Jane Grey was lodged in the house of Mr Nathaniel Partridge, on Tower Green. In August 1553, the author of 'The Chronicle of Queen Jane' dined at the house and recorded his conversation with Lady Jane.

Details of this conversation can be found in the following:

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

Tales from the Tower of London by Daniel Diehl and Mark P Donnelly

Silent But For The Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works edited by Margaret Patterson Hannay

Tower of London by Christopher Hibbert

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

The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt edited by John Gough Nichols

She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of England by Elizabeth Norton

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

They Saw It Happen 1485-1688 by C R N Routh

Lives of the Tudor Princesses by Agnes Strickland

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

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

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