Born in 1537, married in 1553, Queen of England for nine days, beheaded at 16.
Jane Grey
"nonsense" seems an odd, almost desperate, term to use under the circumstances.
This is a re-enactment enthusiast site, not the official History of England.
Brittania, op. cit. below, a more rigorous site, though originating in Delaware, has much the same though less judgmentally.
That a 16 year old girl under these circumstances might be given to unwarranted suspicions seems understandable. That she was being poisoned seems at least plausible.
Jennifer Halligan has an extensive and orderly, and well-written, series of pages devoted to Lady Jane Grey, at the equally extensive and orderly Monarchs, at Brittania, the extraordinarily extensive and orderly, somewhat more official, though still unofficial, British History Club site.
Where there is also a site devoted to "Earth Mysteries", at which the following quote, by John Michell, concerning the Druid priesthood can be found:
Jane Grey
note the editorial addendum - "Please note: Jane's assertion that she was poisoned is nonsense..."
'As to the rest, for my part, I know not what the Council had determined to do, but I know for certain that twice during this time, poison was given to me, first in the house of the Duchess of Northumberland and afterwards here in the Tower...All these I have wished for the witness of my innocence and the disburdening of my conscience.'
Letter of Jane Grey to Mary I, Bloody Mary, Queen of England July 19, 1553 - November 17, 1558.
"nonsense" seems an odd, almost desperate, term to use under the circumstances.
This is a re-enactment enthusiast site, not the official History of England.
Brittania, op. cit. below, a more rigorous site, though originating in Delaware, has much the same though less judgmentally.
That a 16 year old girl under these circumstances might be given to unwarranted suspicions seems understandable. That she was being poisoned seems at least plausible.
It is generally believed that Mary, commonly known as Bloody Mary, would have spared Jane's life if it had not been for the intervention of the Spanish diplomats who conditioned Mary's marriage to their king on her executing Jane.
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His {Guildford's [Jane's husband's]} carcase thrown into a cart, and his head in a cloth, he was brought to the chapel within the Tower, where the Lady Jane, whose lodging was in Partidge's house, did see his dead carcase taken out of the cart, as well as she did see him before alive on going to his death - a sight to her no less than death.which I have not found a readable version of entire, online, as yet.
from The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary
by anonymous
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THE HAND OF GOD, OR MERE COINCIDENCE?These facts of divine vengeance extracted from The History and Fate of Sacrilege 1632/1698 and reproduced at Annals Australia "Catholic Answers to 'Bible' Christians" in which it is implied Jane Grey was beheaded because her father participated in the dissolution and dispersal of monastic lands by Henry VIII, for which he and other English royalty were cursed, thoroughly. The author of Annals Australia avoids saying exactly who it is that bestows the operative curse, but he does provide an example of Catholic spell-casting, "...May they be cursed when they go out, and cursed in all places. May the heaven above them be of bronze, and the land they till be of iron...if they be not ashamed, and repent of their evil-doing..." Repentance, and subsequent begging of forgiveness, being the only way to undo the bestowed curse.
The Six Hundred and Sixteen Families upon which the Curse of the Pillaged English Monasteries Fell
Of the six hundred and thirty families that were granted or sold Church lands in the time of Henry VIII only fourteen were not extinct at the time the revised edition of Spelman's work was published in 1895.
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Jennifer Halligan has an extensive and orderly, and well-written, series of pages devoted to Lady Jane Grey, at the equally extensive and orderly Monarchs, at Brittania, the extraordinarily extensive and orderly, somewhat more official, though still unofficial, British History Club site.
Where there is also a site devoted to "Earth Mysteries", at which the following quote, by John Michell, concerning the Druid priesthood can be found:
They also taught the traditional doctrine of the soul's immortality. They must have professed detailed knowledge of the workings of reincarnation, for one writer said that they allowed debts incurred in one lifetime to be repaid in the next.
