and lost so long ago and whose blood was the first of any woman's to stain an English scaffold. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to the histories of Paul Friedmann, of Brewer, Gairdiner, Strickland, and Hume, and to express my gratitude to the librarians of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, for the generous use accorded of the documents and MSS. in their possession. Also I wish to thank Miss Louisa Sewall Cheever, of Smith College, Northampton, Mass., to whose friendship and encouragement this book owes much of the inspiration for its undertaking. MARY HASTINGS BRADLEY. |