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| 30 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size=-1>This account
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| 31 | of Jane Grey's coronation was written by Henry Machyn, a London undertaker.</font><p>
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| 32 | <font size="2">Jane was the great-niece of King Henry VIII. She is
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| 33 | famous as the 'Nine Days' Queen', for she ruled for that small amount of
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| 34 | time in July 1553. Her reign was the direct result of the duke of
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| 35 | Northumberland's ambition. When it was clear that King Edward VI was
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| 36 | dying, Northumberland married Jane to his son, Guildford. As the
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| 37 | leading Protestant nobleman, he could not accept the rule of Henry VIII's
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| 38 | Catholic daughter, Mary. Nor did he wish to lose the power he
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| 39 | amassed during Edward's reign. Under the term of Henry's will, Mary
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| 40 | was to follow Edward upon the throne. Northumberland urged Edward VI
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| 41 | to write his own will, settling the succession upon his Protestant cousin
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| 42 | Jane instead. The young king did so.</font></p>
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| 43 | <p><font size="2">Jane and Guildford were executed in 1554.</font><br>
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| 48 | <p>On 6 July died the noble King Edward VI, in the seventh year of his
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| 49 | reign, son and heir to the noble King Henry VIII. And he was poisoned,
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| 50 | as everybody says, for which now, thanks be to God, there are many of the
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| 51 | false traitors brought to their end, and I trust God that more will follow
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| 52 | as they may be spied out.
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| 53 | <p>On 7 July a proclamation was made that all penthouses should be no lower
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| 54 | than 10 foot, and all private lights be condemned.
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| 55 | <p>The same day an old man was set on the pillory for counterfeit, false
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| 56 | writings.
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| 57 | <p>The same day there came to the Tower the lord treasurer, the earl of
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| 58 | Shrewsbury, and the lord admiral with others; and there they discharged
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| 59 | Sir James Croft of the constableship of the Tower, and there they put in
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| 60 | the said lord admiral, and he took his oath and charge of the Tower, and
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| 61 | the next day after he conveyed into all places in the Tower and... great
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| 62 | guns, such as the White Tower on high.
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| 63 | <p>On 9 July all the head officers and the guard were sworn to Queen Jane
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| 64 | as queen of England.... daughter of the duke of Suffolk, and served as
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| 65 | queen of....
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| 66 | <p>The following day queen Jane was received into the Tower with a great
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| 67 | company of lords and nobles of... after the queen, and the duchess of Suffolk
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| 68 | her mother, bearing her train, with many ladies, and there was a firing
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| 69 | of guns and chamber such as has not often been seen, between 4 and 5 o'clock;
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| 70 | by 6 o'clock began the proclamation on the same afternoon of Queen Jane,
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| 71 | with two heralds and a trumpet blowing, declaring that Lady Mary was unlawfully
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| 72 | begotten, and so went through Cheapside to Fleet Street, proclaiming Queen
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| 73 | Jane. And there was a young man taken at that time for speaking certain
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| 74 | words about Queen Mary, that she had the true title.
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| 75 | <p>On 11 July, at 8 o'clock in the morning the young man was set on the
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| 76 | pillory for speaking this, and both his ears were cut off. There
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| 77 | was a herald and a trumpeter blowing, and he was quickly taken down.
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| 78 | And the same day the young man's master, dwelling at St John's Head, whose
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| 79 | name was Sandur Onyone, and another Master Owen, a gun-maker at London
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| 80 | Bridge, living at Ludgate, were drowned.
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| 81 | <p>On 12 July by night were carried to the Tower 3 carts full of all manner
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| 82 | of ordnance, such as great guns and small, bows, bills, spears, morrish
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| 83 | pikes, armour, arrows, gunpowder and stakes, money, tents and all manner
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| 84 | of ordnance, a great number of cannon balls, and a great number of men
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| 85 | at arms; and it was for a great army near Cambridge; and two days after
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| 86 | the duke and various lords and knights went with him, and many gentlemen
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| 87 | and gunners, and many men of the guard and men of arms towards Lady Mary's
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| 88 | grace, to destroy her grace, and so to Bury, and all was against him, for
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| 89 | his men forsook him.<p align="center"> <p align="center"><font size="2">
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| 90 | <a href="relative/janegrey.html">to the Lady
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| 91 | Jane Grey website</a></font><p align="center"><a href="primary.html">
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| 92 | <font size="2">to Primary Sources</font></a></td>
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