The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-25
THE NIRB DAYS QUEEN.

Thursday, July 6, at Green Hch Palace no
calmly, that the fact could be kept secret all
that night and all the next day, while Dudley
matured his plans. The council we're OF his
advice, the feet and army at his back. On the
city he could count for passive assent; ont pas
awe assent was not enough. On Saturday
morning be sent for Sir Thomas White, Lord
Mayor, six alderman, and a score of the richest
merchants from Lombard street, to whom he
showed the Kings body, and papers which he
called the Kings lettor-patent, fixing the order
Of succession 10 the crown. These papers,
ubicA gave the sceptre to Lady Jane, Dadley
oo, tho Lord Mayor and citizens to sign. The
Iondonerswere told to keep the Kings death and
,be contents of these letters patent secret until
the lord, should make them known. Dudley's
nlsn was. that Edwards death should not be
noised abroad until Mary had been lodged In
the Tower, and Jane was ready to announce
herself as Queen.
when Edward was dying, Mary hal been
called TO his bedside by the council, and she
had come so near to Greenwich as the royal
lodge of Hunsdon, twenty-five miles distant.
40 Soon as the King was dead, Lord Robert was
sent Off by Dudley with a party OF mounted
guards to bring her in. Once IN the Tower, the
nnoopular princess would have foand few
knights to strike in her behalf.
Dudley himself rode down to Sion, near Isle
worth, his house on the Thames, to which Lady
moned the Princess Mary to Greenwich
he sent his wife to Suffolk House for Lady
Jane. Frances, her mother, refused to give
her up; Jane herself preferred TO stay in south
walk; until the Duchess of Northum berland
fetched her son, who begged her, on her duty
as wife, to depart with him. Not liking to b
begin her married life by an act of disc oedi-
euCe Lady Jane went with the Duchess and
her son to Chelsea, where they locked her up
till Sunday on which day Lady Sydney, her
husbands sister, brought her request from
Dudley to repair at once TO Sion, and await
message OF highest moment from the King. She
was not aware that Edward had been dead
the two ladies took boat at Chelsea. When
Lady Jane arrived at Sion, the House was
empty, but the great lords came dashlng in;
the Duke himself, President of the Council;
William Parr, Marquis of northampton, Grand
Chamberlain, and brother OF Queen Catharne
Parr: Francis Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon,
husband Of Anne Pafr, the Queens sister;
Henry Fyz.Alau, the smiling ana deadly
Earl OF Arundel; accompanied by the Duchess
of Northumberland and the MarChiOness OF
Northampton, Arundel and Pembroke tell on
their knees, and were the first to kiss Lady
James hand as queen.
BY help Of these men aud women the first and
fatal part of Dudlcy'5 work was done. Jane
tainted when they told her she was queen. Sne
had loved King Edward with a sisters love;
read with him played with him, shared his
secrets and his hopes; and when che heard that
he was dead she swOouCd and sank upon her
face. They told her she was queen by Edwards
will, according to the acts which vested the
succession IN the king. Pembroke and Arundel,
who were famous soldiers swore by their souls
they would shed their blood and give their lives
to maintain her rights. Then Lady Jane stood
up before the lords, saying she had never
dreamt OF such greatness being thrust upon
her, but that if she was called to reign, she
prayed for grace TO act as might be best for
Gods glory and His peoples good.
The next day, being sunday, she remained at
Sion, surrounded by her husbands family; the
Duke giving orders CT many kinds, instructing
heralds, sending out proclamations, writing to
the lords and sherifts, and acting generally as
protector That night the interregnum was to
end, the new reign to begin,
First Day. On bright July morning, Queen
Jane embarked in the royal barge at Sion, aud
followed by a cloud OF galleys, bright with
bunting, gay with music, rio tous with cannon,
dropt down the river, making holiday along the
banks passing the great Abbey, calling for an
hour at Whitehall Palace, and tor another hour
at Durham House, and shooting through the
arches OF London Bridge. She landed Mt the
Queens stair about o'clock, under the
roar OF saluting guns, and was con-
Quoted, through crowds of kneeliog citizens,
to her regal lodgings by the two Dukes,
the Marquises of Winchester and Northampton,
Arundel, Pembroke, Paget, Westmoreland
Warwick; all the great nOblemen who had made
her queen. Her mother, FraDces, bore her
train; and her husband, Gullford, walked by
her side, cap in hand, and boWing 10 when she
deigned TO speak. The Lieutenant, Sir John
Drydges, and his deputy Thomas Brydges. re-
Ceived her majesty on their knees. At O'Clock
she was proclaimed IN the city, when the Kings
death was announced and his hnal testament
made known.
But the day was not to end in peace; for after
supper was over, and the Queen had gone to her
rooms, the Marquis of Winchester, lord treasu-
Ter, brought up the private je Tels, which he
desired her to wear, and the royal crown
which he wished her to try on. Jane looked
at the shining toy, aud put it from her, saying
1T will do" Winchester told her another
crown would have to.Oe made. Another crown
For whom must another crown be
made? For the Lord Gullford, said the Mar.
Quis, since he was 10 be crowned with her as
KING! Crowned As klug Surprised and hurt
by what the treasurer had let fall, she sat IN
silent pain, until Gmltord came into her room,
when she broke into fit Of honest wrath. The
crown, she said was not 2 plaything for bows
and girls. She could not make HIM king. A
duke she had power to make, bat only Parlia-
ment could make man king. Guilford began
10 cry, and lett the ROOM. In ieW minutes he
came back with his mother, still whimpering
that he wanted to be kirg, and would not he a
duke. The Queen was tIm; and after a hot
scene the Duchess took her boy away, declaring
that he should not live with an unerateflI
wife.
Second Day. Bad news came in from the
eastern shiTes. When Lord Robert had rot IN
Hunsdon his prize was lost; no man could
tell him how or why; but the lodge was
empty, and the Princess gone, Mary h56 hnen
Well served; for while Dudley was dra WING !
curtain round the bed, the false Arundel anS
the honest Throckmorton were both intent oT
letting her know that KiGg Edward vas no
more. Sir Nicholas rode to London told hi,
three brothers the dread news, aud took connse
with them as TO what should be done Tbf
four men, sitting in a dark ROOM Whisnprino
ID NOT wo'ds that summer night, were but th(
types OF four millions OF English subipcl 8
They were loyal meu, stout OF heart and trn,
in faith: men who feared that Mary night h
led astIay through her confessofs and be
spanish trends out VINO chose to risk tina