The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Mauv 1. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND 295 The successionof Mary, thefirst femaleruler secured her lands proved rapacious landlords. Indeed, thereign of Edward VI was a dark time for the common peo-ple. The debased coinage made prices very high, and thewar with France and Scotlandincreased the distress, for itbrought a new burden of taxa-tion and the loss of YIIIs will providedthat Mary, his eldest daugh-ter, though by law illegitimate since the marriage with Catherine had been declared null and void, should succeed
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Mauv 1. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND 295 The successionof Mary, thefirst femaleruler secured her lands proved rapacious landlords. Indeed, thereign of Edward VI was a dark time for the common peo-ple. The debased coinage made prices very high, and thewar with France and Scotlandincreased the distress, for itbrought a new burden of taxa-tion and the loss of YIIIs will providedthat Mary, his eldest daugh-ter, though by law illegitimate since the marriage with Catherine had been declared null and void, should succeed tothe throne if Edward VI leftno direct heirs, and it wassoon evident that to her andnot to Lady Jane Grey thenation turned. Northumberland proclaimed Lady JaneGrey queen, but was too late in trying to seize Mary, foralready she was among the men of Norfolk and Suffolk,and the troops he summoned would not fight against theTudor claimant. Hitherto England had not known awomans sovereignty, but loyalty to the ruling line, nowbecome a national passion, overcame all other feelings, andwithin a fortnight Mary was queen, and Northumberland,Lady Jane
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