Lady Jane Grey And Her Times

IN 1546 it must have been evident to most observers that the life of the man who had for thirty-five years been England's ruler and tyrant- of whom Raleigh affirmed that if all the patterns of a merciless Prince had been lost in the world they might have been found in this one King-was not likely to be prolonged ; and though it had been made penal to foretell the death of the sovereign, men must have been secretly Jooking on to the future with anxious eyes.Of all the descendants of Henry VIIJ on