. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. * The duke of Suffolk, who had never been worthyof the child whom his ambition and imbecility had sa- * De Thou. Bishop Godwin. DEATH OF LADY JANE GREY. 233 crlficed, was publicly beheaded on Tower-hill, on the23rd of February, eleven days after the execution ofhis daughter and son-in-law. Sir Thomas Wyatt pe-rished at the same place on the 11th of April; lordThomas Grey, one of Suffolks brothers, was executedabout a fortnight after
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. * The duke of Suffolk, who had never been worthyof the child whom his ambition and imbecility had sa- * De Thou. Bishop Godwin. DEATH OF LADY JANE GREY. 233 crlficed, was publicly beheaded on Tower-hill, on the23rd of February, eleven days after the execution ofhis daughter and son-in-law. Sir Thomas Wyatt pe-rished at the same place on the 11th of April; lordThomas Grey, one of Suffolks brothers, was executedabout a fortnight after, and other executions the only victim that excited any lasting interest,or that deserA^ed to excite it, was the fair lady old Fuller, with his usual point, and appa-rently with little inaccuracy, unless it be in relationto her age, of which some doubts must be entertained,says of her— She had the innocency of childhood,the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gra-vity of old age, and all at eighteen; the birth of aprincess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint,and the death of a malefactor for her 20*
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