Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-02

threatened, yea, presently sometimes
with pinches, nips aud bobs, and other
ways (which | will not name for the
honor bear them without measure
misordered, till the time come that l
must 70 to Mr.. Elmer, who teaches me
so gently, so pleasantly, with such fallrr
allurements TO learning that think all
the time nothing while | am with him /;
and when am called from him, tall
on weeping because whatsoever do
else is full of grief, trouble, fear and
whole misliking unto me. And thus my
book bath been so much my pleasure;
and bringeth daily to me more pleasure
and more, that, in respect of it, all other
pleasures in very deed be but trifies and
very troubles unto me, remember,
adds Ascham, "this talk very gladly,
both because it is so worthy of memory,
and because also it was the last talk
that ever had, and the last time that
ever saw that noble and worthy lady.
Poor Lady Jane! her marvellous ac-
complishments and her many amiable
qualities were in some measure the
cause Of her melancholy end. They en-
deared her to her cousin, the youthful
King Edward vi, himself a prodigy Of
learning, who was thus the more easily
seduced by the crafty Northumberland
to settle the revcrsion of the crown upon
her, TO the exclusion of his sisters The
story OF her marriage to Lord Guilford
Dudley, Northumberland fourth son, is
too we'll known. And now, alasW says
Ballard, = she must soon bid adieu to
the sweet delights Of study and improve
ment OF the mind; for by the infinite
ambition of her father.in-law, and the
stupendous folly Of her own father, she
was violently pushed upon precipice
which proved fatal to her. Soon after
her marriage the king declined apace,
and died on the 9th of July fol-
lowing, not without suspicion Of
poisoning" We will not dwell upon
her brief day of mock sovereignty. 1t
may not be generally known that the
head of her unhappy father, Henry
Grey, Duke Of Suffolk, is now preserved
in tin case in the church Of the Holy
Trinity, Minoriesl The night before her
execution she read in her Greek Testa-
ment, and penned on the hy-leayes an
admirable Latin letter to her sister,
Lady Katherine. Bishop Burnet says
she wrote this in Greek. Ballard gives
a touching account of her death, and
cites Fuller [" Holy State, p. BID to
the following effect: "She had the inno-
cency of childhood, the beauty of youth,
the solidity of middle, the gravity Of
old age, aud all at eighteenl The birth
Of a princess, the learning Of clerk,
the life of saint met the death of a
malefactor for her parents offenses. "
At the scaffold she gave to Sir Henry
Gage, Constable of the Tower (who de-
sired her TO bestow some small gift upon
him as memorial TO herl her table
book, in which she had written three
sentences relating to her husband, in
Greek, Latin and English. The Greek
to this effect; "Ihat If his executed
body should give testimony against her
before men, his blessed soul should give
an eternal proof of her innocence in
the presence of God" The Latin
added, "That human justice was against
his body, but the Divine right should be
for his soul.'' The conclusion in Eng
lish. That if her fault deserved pun
ishment, her yonth at least, and her
imprudence, were worthy Of excuse; and
that God and posterity would show her
favor" Is there a heart that does not
soy amen TO thisY-Legraed Edqses ~
tie Sixteenth Century, in the Char0h-
mans Shilling Magazine