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History of Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Day Queen by Arthur MacArthur (Paperback / softback, 2016)

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Title: History of Lady Jane Grey. Genre: History. Format: Paperback. Missing Information?. Item Weight: 195g. Item Width: 10mm. Publisher: Westphalia Press. Item Height: 203mm.

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The history of Lady Jane Grey illustrates the complex and bloody history of the English monarchy. Through a very long, strange chain of wills, deaths and requests, Jane was named heiress to the English throne of July 1553. She was kwn as a kind and devout Protestant and was chosen to receive the hor over Edward Tudor's sister, Mary who was Catholic. The attempt to put Jane in power failed; after nine days she was imprisoned in the Tower of London and then executed. Mary Tudor had gotten eugh popular support to have Jane deposed. Jane's own immediate family did t impart much kindness either. In a 1550 letter to Roger Ascham, Jane wrote, I will tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that God ever gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in the presence of Father or Mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it as it were in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips and bobs and other ways (which I will t name for the hour I bear them), so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time comes that I must go to Mr Aylmer, who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time thing while I am with him. This new edition is dedicated to Emma Norman, who kws well and cherishes English history.