Recollections of Royalty, from the Death of William Rufus in 1100 to That of the Cardinal York in 1807, 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828. Excerpt: ... exhibited in her writings and conduct. But though possessed of every claim to admiration, such was the inscrutable will of that Being, to whose fiat no one could be more disposed to submit than herself, that her brief existence was not only embittered by unusual and almost constant misfortunes, but it was terminated by a violent, and in the eye of moral justice, an unmerited death. Notwithstanding that she scarcely attained her seventeenth year, few personages have filled so important a part in the political transactions of their times; and whilst an object of the deepest interest to every mind capable of being affected by the romantic events of her life, all which relates to her is of the greatest importance to the historian. For these reasons numerous accounts of this illustrious female have been given to the public; indeed, so many authors have made her the subject of their pens, that in this sketch of her character little hope is entertained of presenting new facts; but although every expectation of displaying traits, or recording events hitherto unnoticed, is disclaimed, this memoir may nevertheless not be totally unworthy of attention, from the consideration that the same data frequently admit of different conclusions. Family descent of Lady Jane Grey. Few characters have ever been pourtrayed in which the noblest feelings of the human mind have been more powerfully excited, as in that of the amiable, accomplished, and unfortunate Lady Jane Grey. Her father's family was one of the oldest in the kingdom, and had in several branches been ennobled; Rollo, or Fulbert, is said to have been chamberlain to Robert, Duke of Normandy, and to have obtained from that Prince the castle of Croy, in Picardy; from which territory he adopted the surname of De Croy, a...