The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1872-06-06

4 le'o'o1Vu WIS W very ouOtt cOutluu-
ance. The nation declared for "a esu
Mays aod The lady Janc, after wear.
ing the vain paxeantry Of 4 crown do.
ring ton days. returned 10 private
life, with much more satisfaction tn, o
she fel, when royalty was tendersa
to her. -ffai ~
Qaeon Mary, who appears to have
besn Incapable Of generosity or elem
eocy, determined TO remove every
pcrsou, from whom the lcast danger
could be appreheuded. Waruiug was,
therefore, given to lady Jane to pre-
pare for death, doom which she had
expected, and which the innocence
Of her lifc az we'll as the mifsortu nes
to which she had been exposed ron
dercd no unwelcome news to her.
The queens bisoted zeal, under
colour Of tender mercy to the prison.
ers soul, Induced her to seud priests.
who molestedher with perpetual dis
puiatioo andsvcn a rcprive Of three
days was granted her, 10 hopos that
she would be persuaded, dur log that
time, to psy, by . ducly conversion
to popery, some regard to her eternal
welfare. .
Lady Jaoc had presence Of mind,
in these melancholy circumst aoces, not
only to defend her religion by solid
arguments, but also 10 write a lette,
tr her sister, in the Greek language,
10 which. besides sending her copy
Of the Scriptures in that tongue, she
exhorted her to maiutain, 10 every
fortune, IA like steady perseverance.
% the day Of her execution, her
husband, lord Guiirord, desired per-
mission to sec her but she refused
her consent, and seut him word, that
the tenderness # their parting would
overcome the forlitude Of both and
would too much unbend their minds
from that constancy, which their ap.
proachiog end required of them, Their
separation, she said, would be only
for moment. and they would soon
rejoin each other in scene, whore
their objection would be forever uni
ted aud where death, disappointment,
aud misfortune, could no longer have
access to them, or disturb their eter.
nal felicity.
1t had been intcneed to execute tho
lady Jane aud lori GuiIfoad together
on the same scatfold, at Tower hill I;
but the council, dreading tho compas
sion Of the people for their youth,
beauty, innocence and noble birth.
changed their orders, and gave dlrec-
tious that she should DO behcaded
within the verge Of the Tower.
She saw her husband led to exccu-
tion and having given him rom the
window some token of her remem-
brancc, she waited with tranquility
till her own appointed hour should
bring her to q like fate. She even
saw his heades, body carried back IN
u cart aud louud herself more con.
hrmed by tho reports which sh e
heard of the constaucy Of his end,
than shaken by so tender and mclau.
choly spectacle.
Sir John Gage, constable of tue
Tower, when he led hor To execu-
tion, desired her to be.tow on him
some small present which be might
keep rs perpetual memorial o! her.
She gave him hor table. book, 10
which she had just written three SEN
teuces, on seeiog her husbands dead
body, one in Greek, another 10 Latin,
third 10 English.
The purpo-t of them was, "lhat
haman justice Was against his Jody,
but Divine Mercy would be favora-
bio to his soul aud that it her fault
deserved punishment, her youth, al
least, aud her imprudonce were wor.
thy Of excuse aud that God aud pos
terity, she trusted would show her ia.
vour.' On the scaifold, sne made
speech to the by.slanIers, in which
the mildaess Of her disposition, lel
her to tAke the blame entirely on h,r-
self without ut,eriog Que complaint
against the severity with which she
had been treated. .t
She said, that her offence was, not
that she had laid her hand upou the
crown, but hat she had not rejected
It with sufficient coustancy; that she
had less erred through ambition, thaa
through reverence TO her parents,
whom she had been taught 10 respect
aud obey That she willingly resolved
Death as'tife ouly satisfaction which
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