The chronicle of Queen Jane, and of two years of Queen Mary, and especially of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat

John Gough Nichols

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• Great Britain
• Wyatt
• Grey

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THE
CHRONICLE OF QUEEN JANE,
TWO YEARS OF QUEEN MARY,
AND ESPECIALLY OF THE
REBELLION OF SIR THOMAS WYAT.
BY A RESIDENT IN THE TOWER OF LONDON.
EDITED,
WITH ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS AND NOTES,
BY
JOHN GOUGH F.S.A.NICHOLS, ESQ.
FOR THE CAMDENPRINTED SOCIETY.
M.DCCC.L.LONDON :
J. B. NICHOLS AND PRINTERS,SON,
STREET.PARLIAMENT
XLVIII.][NO.COUNCIL
OF
THE CAMDEN SOCIETY
FOR THE YEAR 1849.
President,
THE RIGHT HON. LORD F.S.A.BRAYBROOKE,
THOMAS F.S.A. Director.AMYOT, ESQ. F.R.S.,
HENRYWILLIAM M.A.BLAAUW, ESQ.
JOHN Treas. S.A.BRUCE, ESQ. PAYNE V.P.S.A. Treasurer.COLLIER, ESQ.
C. PURTON F.S.A.COOPER, ESQ. Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S.,
WILLIAM DURRANT F.S.A.COOPER, ESQ.
BOLTON M.R.S.L.CORNEY, ESQ.
SHI HENRY Sec. S.A.ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S.,
THE REV. JOSEPH F.S.A.HUNTER,
JOHN MITCHELL M.A.KEMBLE, ESQ.
PETER F.S.A.LEVESQUE, ESQ.
FREDERIC F.S.A.ESQ.OUVRY,
THOMAS JOSEPH F.S.A.PETTIGREW, ESQ. F.R.S.,
HENRY CRABB F.S.A.ROBINSON, ESQ.
WILLIAM J. F.S.A.,THOMS, ESQ. Secretary.of the CAMDEN itThe COUNCIL SOCIETY desire to be under-
stood that are not answerable for or observa-they any opinions
that in thetions the Editors ofappear publications ;may Society's
the several works alone for the same.being responsiblePREFACE.
THE Harleian MS. 194 is a frompocket Julydiary, extending
1553 to October 1554. It is or rather in so badwritten, scribbled,
a hand that even who from hassomeStowe, it,printed passages
mistaken several words and to this becircumstance; perhaps may
attributed the it has hitherto received.*partly neglect
It is the for the account andStowe,authority interesting given by
of the execution ofLord Guilford and JaneHolinshed, Dudley Lady
as well as the of their narrative of theforGrey, greater part pro-
of events whilst the council administered the ofgress government
"
the realm in of JANE THEthe name QUENE."
"
In the Harleian it is that This bookstated,Catalogue formerly
who fromto Mr. John took thenceStowe,belonged many passages
which in his at the of andbe found Annals, Queenmay reign Mary,
more remain him untouched."byyet
"Mr. has The account Holinshed ofremarked, byTytler given
consent to lead the and of his to theNorthumberland's speecharmy,
the is and has some finenobles before Tower, interesting,leaving
its Holinshed intouches which seem to stamp authenticity." says
* modern author who has made use of it is Sir Frederick whoThe Madden,only any
a short In his Introduction to the Purse accounts ofPrivy Queen Mary.quoted passageVI PREFACE.
"
liis that it was derived from the of an ;"margin report eye-witness
he received from the
it, Stowe, presentreally through Diary.
affords us no intimation of the name of theStowe writer, except
of he hasthat at one the account of theplace, decapitation Wyat,
in his the name ofprinted margin
Row. Lea.
Rowland Lea was the name of a of Lichfield and Coventry,Bishop
who died lord of Wales in the 1543 : and the same
president year
name was continued in his
baptismal very probably family.
That the diarist was a man of no mean condition be inferredmay
from the fact of his been admitted to dine at the same tablehaving
with the Jane when in the Tower. The
lady Grey passage
this which is one of the most in theincident,describing interesting
has been unknown to all the Jane'sbook, lady biographers, although
it was once in the seventeenth sir Simonds
printed, century, by
who was then the owner of theD'Ewes, manuscript.
It was in master house that the Jane was
Partridge's lady lodged,
and at his interviewtable that this memorable took Who wasplace.
"
master ? was he Affabel toPartriche," goldsmith queenPartridge
*
to whom the lord treasurer was directed warrantMary, by royal
dated 25th to deliver certain then in1554,July, jewels remaining
the Tower ? or in what other had he a residence within
capacity
that fortress ?
But the more Who was his whom weis,important question guest,
would now desire to commemorate as the sole chronicler of the
of Jane ? It be a of rankQueenReign may supposed person higher
or better education than as he was invited to enter intoPartridge,
familiar conversation with the illustrious One of the sheetsprisoner.
* MS. Cotton. Titus B. iv. f. 130.