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| 30 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size=-1>In this letter, Jane explains the circumstances which
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| 31 | led to her becoming queen for nine days. Her assertion that she was
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| 32 | poisoned is nonsense.</font><p><br>
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| 38 | 'Although my fault be such that but for the goodness and clemency of
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| 39 | the Queen, I can have no hope of finding pardon.... having given ear to those who at the time appeared not only
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| 40 | to myself, but also to the great part of this realm to be wise and now
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| 41 | have manifested themselves to the contrary, not only to my and their great
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| 42 | detriment, but with common disgrace and blame of all, they having with
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| 43 | shameful boldness made to blamable and dishonourable an attempt to give
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| 44 | to others that which was not theirs...[and my own] lack of prudence...for
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| 45 | which I deserve heavy punishment...it being known that the error imputed
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| 46 | to me has not been altogether caused by myself. [The Privy Council]....who
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| 47 | with unwontd caresses and pleasantness, did me such reverence as was not
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| 48 | at all suitable to my state. He [Dudley] then said that his Majesty had
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| 49 | well weighed an Act of Parliament...that whoever should acknowledge the
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| 50 | most serene Mary...or the lady Elizabeth and receive them as the true heirs
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| 51 | of the crown of England should be had all for traitors...wherefore, in
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| 52 | no manner did he wish that they should be heirs of him and of that crown,
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| 53 | he being able in every way to disinherit them. And therefore, before his
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| 54 | death, he gave order to the Council, that for the honour they owed to him...they
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| 55 | should obey his last will...As to the rest, for my part, I know not what
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| 56 | the Council had determined to do, but I know for certain that twice during
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| 57 | this time, poison was given to me, first in the house of the Duchess of
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| 58 | Northumberland and afterwards here in the Tower.... All these I have wished
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| 59 | for the witness of my innocence and the disburdening of my conscience.' <p align="center"> <p align="center">
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| 60 | <font size="2"><a href="relative/janegrey.html">
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| 61 | to the Lady Jane Grey website</a></font><p align="center"><a href="primary.html">
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| 62 | <font size="2">to Primary Sources</font></a></td>
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