Chapter 24. The Tower
Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch24
Copyright © 2009 Eric Ives
Book Title
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Additional Information
How to Cite
Ives, E. (2009) The Tower, in Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch24
Publication History
- Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
- Published Print: 18 SEP 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405194136
Online ISBN: 9781444307832
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- leaving Jane Grey in limbo for four months - before bringing her to trial;
- Simon Renard - became Charles V's sole accredited representative in England;
- letter to Charles dated 8 August - suggestion, that Mary needed to be encouraged ‘to have justice done’;
- Mary's reply - she would take the greatest care before freeing Jane;
- Mary's policy of financial penalties, making her a laughing stock - Jane and four Dudleys to be tried and executed;
- Jane's trial, deliberately demeaning, set for London's Guild Hall;
- archbishop accused charged with high treason - for proclaiming Jane;
- Jane, condemned to be ‘burned alive on Tower Hill or beheaded as the Queen should please’;
- coronation, a triumph, the queen declared legitimate - religious changes of Edward's reign reversed