. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . ented itself toevery ones eye, between the queen thus deposed from her short-lived sovereignty, and the queen who took her place ; so immeasur-ably was Lady Jane Grey the superior of Mary in all but heracquirements. We may compare with the portraits of Mary by Holbein (), and on her seal (Fig. 1486), and coins, &c. (Figs. 1490 to1496), the account given by the Venetian ambassador Michele, whodescribed her as a woman of low stature, thin, and delicate ; her facemore than middling
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . ented itself toevery ones eye, between the queen thus deposed from her short-lived sovereignty, and the queen who took her place ; so immeasur-ably was Lady Jane Grey the superior of Mary in all but heracquirements. We may compare with the portraits of Mary by Holbein (), and on her seal (Fig. 1486), and coins, &c. (Figs. 1490 to1496), the account given by the Venetian ambassador Michele, whodescribed her as a woman of low stature, thin, and delicate ; her facemore than middling pretty : but then he adds, that her eye was sopiercing as to induce fear as well as reverence in those she lookedupon ; her voice thick and loud, like a mans ; and her general aspectand appearance that of one sickly and ill. She too, in her childhood,had been the theme of as much admiration among the courtiers aswe have seen her brother was. Though still comparatively young(thirty-seven years), her constitution had been infirm from child-hood, and dreadfully shattered by the troubles she had passed.
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