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	Lady Jane Grey information - Search.com
		Lady Jane Grey (October 12, 1537 – February 12, 1554), a great-granddaughter of Henry VII of England, was proclaimed Queen regnant of the Kingdom of England for nine days in 1553.
		Jane's status as a monarch is controversial as her succession contravened an Act of Parliament, although this has also been the case with other English monarchs.
		Jane's claim to the throne was through her mother, Lady Frances Brandon, who was the daughter of Mary Tudor (a daughter of King Henry VII of England) and her second husband, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
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	Lady Jane Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jane's mother, Lady Frances Brandon, was the daughter of King Henry VIII's younger sister Mary and of her second husband Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.
		Lady Jane had a reputation as one of the most learned women of her day, and the historian Alison Weir describes her as one of "the finest female minds of the century".
		Jane's claim to the throne came through her mother, Lady Frances Brandon, the daughter of Mary Tudor (herself a daughter of King Henry VII of England) and of her second husband, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey (1735 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Lady Jane Grey
		Lady Jane Grey (October 12?, 1537–February 12, 1554), was a great granddaughter of Henry VII of England, and was proclaimed Queen of England for several days in 1553.
		Jane was born at Bradgate Park near Leicester in October 1537, the eldest daughter of Henry Grey, Marquess of Dorset and his wife Lady Frances Brandon.
		Jane was an older sister of Lady Catherine Grey and Lady Mary Grey.
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	The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum : Execution: Only 16 Year Old : Page 2
		Jane would not convert of course, and was therefore executed on Feb 12, 1554, at 16 years old.
		Jane was born in Oct 1537, and died Feb 1554.
		This is an almost exact copy of the Deveria "Giovanna Grey" except for two major differences: 1) Jane's hair is not hanging in two tendrils on each side, and 2) the woman in the background on the right is now holding her hand up.
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		The making of it had been the labour of Lady Helen Mar, daughter of the earl; admiration for Wallace's prowess, and sympathy with his misfortune had aroused in her--although she had never seen him--an eager devotion to him as the man who had dared to strike at tyranny and fight for his country's freedom.
		Lady Mar, whose secret hopes had been stirred afresh by the death of her husband, heard with consternation of Wallace's departure.
		She saw a lady seated on a little rustic bench near the large lake, and went and seated herself at the other end of the bench.
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	Lady Jane Grey
		Lady Jane Grey (October 12?, 1537–February 12, 1554), was a great granddaughter of Henry VII of England, and was proclaimed Queen of England for nine days in 1553.
		When Jane was fifteen, she was observed by an Italian ambassador, and reported to have been fluent in several languages, including Ancient Greek, and capable of debating the most intellectual points with anyone, including learned scholars.
		Jane had been determined to go to her death with dignity, but once blindfolded, could not find the executioner's block.
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	ART / 4 / 2DAY
		Painted in bright monochrome pink, the background does not offer any clues as to the location of the scene we are witnessing, but rather offers a vibrant backdrop onto which the figures appear to be superimposed.
		The focus of the present painting is a girl in the foreground playing with a diabolo, a spool-shaped object balanced on a string that is attached at each end to a stick, her image echoed by two diabolo players in the background.
		The painting excels in masterful techniques, beginning with the layers of color, some semi-transparent and others opaque, and ending with an rich impasto of three-dimensional brush strokes and engravings in the paint with the help of the sharp point of the brush handle.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4jul/art0717.html (8218 words)

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		Wyatt's Rebellion and the Lady Elizabeth--Subsequent Severities--The Marriage Treaty-Pole, Renard, and Gardiner--Public Tension--Parliament; Reconciliation with Rome --Reaction consummated, 1555.
		Of the rest, one of the leaders was executed, Lovel escaping; but the affair, though abortive, illustrated the general atmosphere of insecurity which was to be more seriously demonstrated by the insurrection in favour of Lambert Simnel in the following year--some months after the Queen had given birth to a son, Prince Arthur.
		In the summer of 1496 he was making active preparations for an incursion into England on Warbeck's behalf; largely influenced no doubt by the promise that, should it prove successful, Berwick, which had been finally ceded to England fourteen years before, was to be once more surrendered to the Scots.
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	New Letters and Memorials Vol. 1-2 L1-56/p1-155
		JANE B. In the beginning of 1826, or perhaps before that year quite began, I went to Edinburgh, to start the printing of German Romance; and staid some weeks, watching and directing till that business was fairly under way.
		JANE B. The "Book" mentioned here with such enthusiasm (beautiful soul!) is that wretched "Didactic Novel"; which, in spite of all my obstinacy, declared itself desperate soon after this; and was shoved aside for other tasks, - [Page 18] at last bodily into the fire.
		Woe to the fine lady who should find herself set down at Craigenputtock for the first time in her life, left alone with her own thoughts, no "fancy bazaar" in the same kingdom [Page 43] with her, no place of amusement within a day's journey; the very church, her last imaginable resource, seven miles off.
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	The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum: Tower : Lady Jane Grey: From Queen to Prisoner Page 2
		Jane was already in the Tower awaiting her coronation, but was then moved to the Gentlemen Goaler's Lodgings, where she was kept prisoner until her day of execution.
		"Lady Jane Grey waves a sad farewell to her husband from her prison, as he passes by on his way to be executed"- From "Treasure no. 89 (26 September 1964)" - Illustrator: Peter Jackson.
		Depicting the young Queen Lady Jane Grey preparing for her Execution, it is an original artwork which served as an illustration published in The Germ in 1850.
	www.bitterwisdom.com /ladyjanegrey/tower/tower2.html (2061 words)

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		About three months after this transaction, his niece Aurelia, with her mother, having been to visit a lady in the chariot, the horses being young, and not used to the traces, were startled at the braying of a jackass on the common, and, taking fright, ran away with the carriage, like lightning.
		Nor was the youth's confession disagreeable to the good lady, her mother, who, at one glance, perceived all the advantages of such an union between the two families.
		The uncle entertained spies upon the young lady, who gave him an account of this meeting, in consequence of which she was suddenly hurried to some distant part of the country, which we never could discover.
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		Will any lady or gentleman please to take anythink?" About a dozen do: boiled beef and pickles, and great red raw Cheshire cheese, tempt the epicure: little dumpy bottles of stout are produced, and fizz and bang about with a spirit one would never have looked for in individuals of their size and stature.
		A lady, who had passed for some time as the wife of one of the inmates, suddenly changed her husband and name, her original husband remaining in the house, and saluting her by her new title.
		Pogson was profoundly polite and attentive to the lady at his side, and kindly communicated to her, as is the way with the best-bred English on their first arrival "on the Continent," all his impressions regarding the sights and persons he had seen.
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		Many saints were painted to look alike and could only be identified by their symbolic attributes (the palm leaf, crown, and book).
		John was typically painted holding a reed cross and wearing tattered furs to symbolize his retreat in the desert and hermetic lifestyle.
		Painting out doors allowed him to experience the visible world first hand and not be reliant on sketches brought into the studio.
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	10 Jul History: This Date
		Jane's father-in-law, John Dudley, the duke of Northumberland, had persuaded the dying Edward that his cousin Jane, a Protestant, should be chosen the royal successor over his half-sister Mary, a Catholic.
		However, in early February 1554, Jane's father, Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk, joined Sir Thomas Wyatt in an insurrection against Mary that erupted after her announcement of her intention to marry Philip II of Spain.
		On the morning of 12 February 1554, Jane watched her husband being carried away to execution from the window of her cell in the Tower of London, and two hours later, she was executed herself.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4jul/h4jul10.html (9515 words)

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		He prepared a code for the administration of justice in his Kingdom, which was prefaced by the Ten Commandments, and ended with the Golden Rule; while in his leisure hours he gave coherence and form to the literature of the time.
		Lady Jane Grey's Death, 1553.] The crown passed to the son of Jane Seymour, Edward VI., a feeble boy of sixteen, and upon his death six years later (1553), by the King's will to Lady Jane Grey, descendant of his sister Mary.
		Lady Jane Grey was hurried to the block, and the Catholic Mary to the throne.
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		We've watered many lands.' The poor young English lady's brain started wildly on the effort to be with him, and to understand whether she listened to humour or emotion: she reposed herself as well as she could in the contemplation of an electrically-flashing maze, where every line ran losing itself in another.
		Hideous (for there was no combating her father's painting of him), he was almost interesting through his alliance:--an example of how much earth the worshipper can swallow when he is quite sincere.
		The unbending English lady contrasted with her husband so signally that the oddly united couple appeared yoked in a common harness for a perpetual display of the opposition of the races.
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		She had swept the hearth, and made a bright blazing fire for our reception; the servant had just brought in the tea-tray; and Rose was producing the sugar-basin and tea-caddy from the cupboard in the fl oak side-board, that shone like polished ebony, in the cheerful parlour twilight.
		Her daughter Jane was, of course, as graceful and elegant, as witty and seductive, as she could possibly manage to be; for here were all the ladies to outshine, and all the gentlemen to charm, - and Mr.
		Lawrence was gentlemanly and inoffensive to all, and polite to the vicar and the ladies, especially his hostess and her daughter, and Miss Wilson - misguided man; he had not the taste to prefer Eliza Millward.
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	ART / 4 / 2DAY
		But little matters this slight inaccuracy, compared with the admirable treatment of Lady Jane, with bandaged sight, feeling for the block, her maids covering their faces.
		His speciality was mythological scenes painted in the highly finished manner of Jan Brueghel, one of the numerous artists with whom he collaborated.
		He is noted for his paintings of nocturnal London, for his striking and stylistically advanced full-length portraits, and for his brilliant etchings and lithographs.
	www.geocities.com /johncanu/art/art4jul/art0717.html (7744 words)

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		Next morning, Jane told him that she heard above 300 houses had been burnt down by the fire they saw, and that it was then burning down all Fish-street, by London Bridge.
		His execution, in 1662, for conspiring the death of Charles I. was much called in question as a measure of great severity.] as also all the rest of the nine officers that had their commissions formerly taken away from them, were commanded to their farthest houses from London during the pleasure of the Parliament.
		Dudley and he in the Painted Chamber walked a good while; and I telling him that I was willing and ready to go with him to sea, he agreed that I should, and advised me what to write to Mr.
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	Magic Statistics: November 2005
		Paintings of Moses and Aaron with commandment boards are placed underneath a pelican, an 18th-century Glory (in the roundel), and Baroque angels.
		The Lady Chapel is found in the north-east corner of the church.
		The painting above the altar is a copy of the Madonna and Child by Van Dyke.
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		She also meets Braylon, the powerful Green Knight, who recounts his woeful tale of how he came to be — along with the tragic fate of his wife.
		Painted in monochromatic tones, this limited-edition statue reflects the mood of these stories and measures approximately 7.875" tall.
		Recreating Jean Grey’s Phoenix Pendant, this high-quality wearable prop replica is a timeless and stunning piece sure to be noticed.
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	10 Jul History: This Date
		On July 6, King Edward VI died from tuberculosis at the age of fifteen and Dudley set about convincing the Royal Council to approve his daughter-in-law's ascension.
		On November 13, Jane and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were likewise found guilty of treason and sentenced to death, but because of their youth and relative innocence, Mary did not carry out the death sentences.
		On the morning of February 12, Jane watched her husband being carried away to execution from the window of her cell in the Tower of London, and two hours later, she was executed herself.
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