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Lady Jane Grey is led to her execution, handing over her table-book to Sir John Gage. Line engraving with etching by Warren after W. Hamilton, 1802.

Elizabeth Hartley playing the role of Lady Jane Grey. Engraving by C. Sherwin after himself.

Lady Jane Grey: her portrait in a medallion before a shroud held by two putti . Engraving by C. Vermeulen after A. van der Werff, ca. 1730.

Lady Jane Grey, head and shoulders, in a medallion, above an empty throne; in the foreground, a woman holding a coat of arms mourns her. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1748.

The chronicle of Queen Jane, and of two years of Queen Mary, and especially of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat / Written by a resident in the Tower of London. Ed., with illustrative documents and notes, by John Gough Nichols.

A moste fruitefull, pithie, and learned treatise, hovv a Christian man ought to behaue himselfe in the daunger of death : and how they are to be releued and comforted, whose deare friendes are departed out of this worlde, moste necessarie for this our vnfortunate age [and] sorowfull dayes.

Copies of two letters preserved among the Lansdowne manuscripts in the British Museum; one from the Lady Jane Grey, the other from Queen Elizabeth.

A moste frutefull, piththye and learned treatise, how a christen ma[n] ought to behaue himself in the dau[n]ger of death.

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Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554

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A moste fruitefull, pithie, and learned treatise, hovv a Christian man ought to behaue himselfe in the daunger of death : and how they are to be releued and comforted, whose deare friendes are departed out of this worlde, moste necessarie for this our vnfortunate age [and] sorowfull dayes.

Copies of two letters preserved among the Lansdowne manuscripts in the British Museum; one from the Lady Jane Grey, the other from Queen Elizabeth.

A moste frutefull, piththye and learned treatise, how a christen ma[n] ought to behaue himself in the dau[n]ger of death.