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| 9 | Dudley, 1554</title>
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| 31 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size="2">Lady Jane
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| 32 | Grey and her husband, Lord Guildford Dudley, were executed on 12 February
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| 33 | 1554 at the Tower of London. The account at right was found in the
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| 34 | anonymous </font><font size=-1> <i>Chronicle of Queen
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| 35 | Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary</i>.</font><p><font size="2">The decision to
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| 36 | execute her cousin was not easy for Queen Mary I. But when Jane's
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| 37 | father led another rebellion against her rule, she could no longer
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| 38 | tolerate the Protestant threat. Also, Philip II of Spain would not
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| 39 | come to England for their marriage until the rebels were defeated.</font></p>
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| 47 | His [Guildford's] carcase thrown into a cart, and his head in a cloth,
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| 48 | he was brought to the chapel within the Tower, where the Lady Jane, whose
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| 49 | lodging was in Partidge's house, did see his dead carcase taken out of
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| 50 | the cart, as well as she did see him before alive on going to his death
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| 51 | - a sight to her no less than death. By this time was there a scaffold
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| 52 | made upon the green over against the White Tower, for the said Lady Jane
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| 53 | to die upon.... The said lady, being nothing abashed....with a book
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| 54 | in her hand whereon she prayed all the way till she came to the said scaffold....
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| 55 | First, when she mounted the said scaffold she said to the people standing
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| 56 | thereabout: 'Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned
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| 57 | to the same. The fact, indeed, against the queen's highness was unlawful,
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| 58 | and the consenting thereunto by me: but touching the procurement and desire
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| 59 | thereof by me or on my behalf, I do wash my hands thereof in innocency,
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| 60 | before God, and the face of you, good Christian people, this day' and therewith
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| 61 | she wrung her hands, in which she had her book. And then, kneeling
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| 62 | down, she turned to Feckenham [the dean of St Paul's] saying, 'Shall I
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| 63 | say this psalm?' And he said, 'Yea.' Then she said the psalm
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| 64 | of <i>Miserere mei Deus</i>, in English, in most devout manner, to the
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| 65 | end. Then she stood up and gave...Mistress Tilney her gloves and
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| 66 | handkercher, and her book to master Bruges, the lieutenant's brother; forthwith
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| 67 | she untied her gown. The hangman went to her to help her therewith;
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| 68 | then she desired him to let her alone, and also with her other attire and
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| 69 | neckercher, giving to her a fair handkercher to knit about her eyes.
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| 70 | <p>Then the hangman kneeled down, and asked her forgiveness, whom she gave
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| 71 | most willingly. Then he willed her to stand upon the straw: which
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| 72 | doing, she saw the block. Then she said, 'I pray you dispatch me
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| 73 | quickly.' Then she kneeled down, saying, 'Will you take it off before
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| 74 | I lay me down?' and the hangman answered her, 'No, madame.' She tied
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| 75 | the kercher about her eyes; then feeling for the block said, 'What shall
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| 76 | I do? Where is it?' One of the standers-by guiding her thereto,
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| 77 | she laid her head down upon the block, and stretched forth her body and
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| 78 | said: 'Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!' And so she ended.<p align="center"> <p align="center">
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| 79 | <font size="2"><a href="relative/janegrey.html">
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| 80 | to the Lady Jane Grey website</a></font><p align="center"><a href="primary.html">
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| 81 | <font size="2">to Primary Sources</font></a></td>
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