The sisters of Lady Jane Grey and their wicked grandfather; being the true stories of the strange lives of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, and of the ladies Katherine and Mary Grey, sisters of Lady Jane Grey, "the nine-days' queen," . , I came to Paris, the queen wasin hand with me the day after. She said * she must be shortwith me and show to me her pleasure and mind, and soshe began, and showed how good a lady she was to me, andif I would be ordered by her, she verily would have none butme. An ever I come to England, said the youthfuldowager to Suffolk, I never shall have you, and therefor
The sisters of Lady Jane Grey and their wicked grandfather; being the true stories of the strange lives of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, and of the ladies Katherine and Mary Grey, sisters of Lady Jane Grey, "the nine-days' queen," . , I came to Paris, the queen wasin hand with me the day after. She said * she must be shortwith me and show to me her pleasure and mind, and soshe began, and showed how good a lady she was to me, andif I would be ordered by her, she verily would have none butme. An ever I come to England, said the youthfuldowager to Suffolk, I never shall have you, and thereforeplainly an you marry me not now, I will never have younor never come into England. Suffolk rephed, You saythat but to prove me withal. I would but you knewwell, answered Mary, at your coming to Paris how it wasshown to me. I asked her, continued Suffolk, ** whatthat was ? The best in France has been with me,replied Mary. Here she clearly indicated Francis I, andfrom him she had intelligence which added to her excite-ment. An I go to England, continued she to Suffolk,* then I am sent to Flanders, and I would be torn to piecesrather than ever come there. * And with that, pursuesSuffolk, she weeped as never I saw woman so weep. 50. cloth of Frieze weds Cloth of Gold the duke had been seen leaving her apartment atquestionable hours. Seizing a favourable oppor-tunity when she knew the lovers to be together,the duchess threw open the door of the queenscloset and, it seems, discovered Her Majesty andher lover in so compromising a situation, that she ordered the startled couple into the chapeland then and there had them married by a priestwho chanced to be saying Mass/ When Francisheard the wedding was well over, he did all in hispower to propitiate his dearly beloved brotherHenry Ylll. He was not very successful, how-ever, and Mary and her husband had to spendsome weeks of terrible suspense, during which anastounding correspondence was kept up betweenthem, Henry VHI, and Wolsey,^ one
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