This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...saw Northumberland's audacious scheme, and were determined to frustrate it. In the meantime, Northumberland was resolved to entrap the Princess; and for two days he kept the death of King Edward a secret, in order to luro Mary to London. He wrote to her in the name of the King and Council, begging of her to come and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...saw Northumberland's audacious scheme, and were determined to frustrate it. In the meantime, Northumberland was resolved to entrap the Princess; and for two days he kept the death of King Edward a secret, in order to luro Mary to London. He wrote to her in the name of the King and Council, begging of her to come and entertain her brother, who was very ill. Pleased to find her presence more acceptable in the precincts of the Court, Mary gladly hastened to London, and had arrived within half a day's journey, when the Earl of Arundel sent her private intelligence of the King's death, and warned her of the ambush laid for her. She retreated at once to Norfolk, where a numerous body of persons, Protestants as well as Romanists, declared for her. Immediately she asserted her claim to the crown in a letter to the Privy Council, which was answered with cool disdain, and professions of allegiance to the Lady Jane Grey, now proclaimed Queen of England. Jane, on her side, was not consulted for a moment on the subject. She was quietly studying with her husband at Sion House, the country residence of the Dudley's, when on the evening of the third day after the death of her royal cousin, her mother-in-law told her that it would be needful for her to go to the Tower, she being made by Edward "heir of the realm." So far was this intelligence from elating, that it made her very unhappy, and the Duchess's words, "being spoken to me thus unexpectedly," she herself says, "put me in great perturbation, and greatly disturbed my mind as yet, and soon after they oppressed me much more." The first news having been broken to her, a few hours after the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis of Northampton, and several other nobles, The first news having; be...
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