Difficulties as to subscribing the Articles The Nonconformists correspond with foreign Protestants . ΑΝ APPENDIX TO THE FORMER В О О К, Touching the Interposings made in Behalf of the Lady JANE GRAY, Publickly Proclaimed QUEEN of ENGLAND. Together with the History of Her Admirable Life, Short Reign, and most Deplorable Death. Prov. xxxi. 29. Many Daughters have done vertuously; but thou excellest them all. Vell. Paterc. lib. 2. Genere, Probitate, Formâ, Romanorum Eminentissima', & per omnia, Deis, quám hominibus, similior Fœmina. Cambd. in Reliquiis. Miraris Janam Graio Sermone loquutam? LONDON, Printed, Anno Dom. 1660. 1 Thus far the quotation is from l. ii. c. 75, where the words are used of Livia. 2 This is given by Fox, vi. 425, as the composition of Bishop Parkhurst, with the variation of valere for loquutam. [HEYLYN, II.] B THE LIFE AND REIGN OF QUEEN JANE. ANNO DOM. 1553. 1. the Lady THE Lady Jane Gray, whom King Edward had declared Descent of for his next successor, was eldest daughter of Henry Jane Grey. Lord Gray, Duke of Suffolk and Marquess Dorset, descended from Thomas Lord Gray, Marquess Dorset, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth, the only wife of Edward the Fourth, by Sir John Gray, her former husband. Her mother was the Lady Frances, daughter, and in fine one of the co-heirs1, of Charles Brandon, the late Duke of Suffolk, by Mary his wife, Queen Dowager to Lewis the Twelfth of France, and youngest daughter of King Henry the Seventh, Grandfather to King Edward, now deceased. Her high descent, and the great care of King Henry the Eighth to see her happily and well bestowed in marriage, commended her unto the bed of Henry, Lord Marquess Dorset, before remembered a man of known nobility and of large revenues; possessed not only of the patrimony of the Grays of Groby, but of the whole estate of the Lord Harrington and 148 Bonvile, which descended on him in the right of his grandmother2, the wife of the first Marquess of Dorset of this name and family. And it is little to be doubted but that the fortunes of the house had been much increased by the especial providence and bounty of the said Queen Elizabeth; who cannot be 1 Edd. "The Lady Frances's daughter; and in fine, one of the coheirs." 2 Cecily, heiress of her maternal great-grandfather, William Lord Bonvile, and also heiress of the Harington family, through her grandmother, Elizabeth de Harington, daughter of Lord Harington.-Nicolas, Synopsis, 71, 304. |