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The Accession Of Queen To The Throne Ayo...
There are not so many re- cords of Mary ' s youth as of that of her sister . She was brought up in the same accom- plishments ofmusic and scho- larship , but had not so many ;
and she underwent similar disadvantages of occasional neglect , but not to such ex- tent . Elizabeth , to use an old phrase , we can " fetch" almost "from her cradle ; " indeed quite so if we go to Hollinshead , or
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to Shakspeare , who have recorded her christening " . After her mother ' s downfall , she was very carelessly treated . In Ellis's Letters * is one from her governess , Lady Brian , to Lord
Cromwell , asking for instructions concerning her , and complaining that she is " put from her degree , " and has neither gown nor petticoat , " nor no maner of linnin for smokes . " She was taught to write by the famous Ascham ; and her
penthat it was the Queen ' s pleasure that her grace should be in London on a given day , and that the orders were to bring her ' quick or dead . * The Princess _complained 6 _t the harshness of their commission ; but Dr Owen and Dr Wendie deciding that She might travel without danger of life , her Grace was informed that the Queen had sent her own litter for her accommodation , and that the next morning she would be , removed . She reached Redhurne in a very feeble condition the first night ; on the _second she rested at Sir Ralph Row let ' s house , at St Albans ; on the third at Mr 2 ) od * s , at Mimmes , and on the fourth at Higbgate , where she stayed a night and a
day . She was thence conveyed to the Court , where , remaining a close prisoner for a whole fortnight , she saw neither king , nor queen , nor lord , nor friend . On the Friday before Palm Sunday , Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , with nineteen others of the council , came from the Queen , and charged her with being concerned not only in Wyat ' s conspiracy , but in the rebellion of Sir Peter Carew . They then declared unto her the Queen ' pleasure that she should go to the Tower till the
_tAatter could be further traced and examined . Against this she remonstrated , protesting her innocence , but the Lords answered that there was _' no remedy . Her own attendants were then dismissed , and those of the Queen placed about her . * * *• . * ' Upon the succeeding day , Palm Sunday , an order was issued throughout London that every one should keep the church and carry his palm . ; during which time the Princess was carried to the Tower .
" The landing at the Traitor's gate she at first refused ; but one of the Lords stepped back into the barge to urge her coming out , * and because it did then rain , * _Aays Holinshed , * he offered to her his cloak , which she ( putting it back with her hand with a good dash ) refused . Then coming out , witl one foot upon the stair ; she Said , ' Here landeth as true a subject , being prisoner , as ever landed at these Stairs ; and before thee O God I speak it , haviug none other friends but thee alone . ' " To her prison-chamber , it is stated , she was brought with great reluctance ; and the locking and bolting of the doors upon her caused dismay . She was ,
moreover , for some time denied even the liberty of exercise . Early in the following May the Lord Chandos , who was then the Constable of the Tower , was discharged of his office , and Sir Henry Bedingfield appointed in his room . ' He brought t _^ ith him , ' says the historian , ' an hundred souldiers in blue coats , wherewith the PHhcess was marvellously discomfited , and demanded of such as were about her _^ ¦ w hether the Lady Jane's scaffold were taken away or no—fearing , by reason of their coining , least she should have played her part . ' Warton says she asked this que _&>
tion * with her usual liveliness ; ' but there was probably less in it of vivacity than he _supposed . Sixty years before , upon the same spot , Sir James Tirell had been suddenly substituted for Sir Robert Brakenbury , preparatoty to the disappearance of the Princes of the House of York . Happily for Elizabeth her fears were groundless ; Sir Henry Bedingfleld accompanied her to a less gloomy prison in the _PalaCfi of Woodstock . " * Original Letters _^ illustrative of English Histoty , & c . _With Notes and _IHufctratidhk . fit Henry Elite , & c . & o . Second Series . Vol . II . p . 78 . '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/4/
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