

Some Grey Matter
Historians and others writing about Lady Jane Grey often cite or refer to source materials that are not readily available to the general public. These include rare books from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and/or books published in languages other than English, plus handwritten manuscripts that have never appeared in print. Those interested in Lady Jane Grey, or in Tudor history more generally, often express interest in reading these original materials but are prevented from doing so by either access issues or language barriers. Students writing papers or working on research projects for high school and university history classes also often express interest in accessing these materials for their studies.
The links below will guide the viewer to additional pages of this site on which they will find some of the rare and otherwise unpublished texts and sources useful to both students and fans of Tudor history.
Manuscript Sources :
The texts provided on the following linked pages are transcriptions of handwritten documents from the mid 1500s that are now stored in a variety of archives in Europe and the U.S.
Warrant for Jewels and other stuffs requisitioned by Queen Jane on 14 July 1553
Inventory of Jewels and other stuffs requisitioned by Queen Jane on 14 July 1553
Printed Sources :
These texts are transcriptions of printed documents or of select portions of books printed in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries.
Proclamation of the Accession of Queen Jane, issued 10 July 1553
Historia de la vita e de la morte de la l'Illustrissima Signora Giovanna Graia, gia regina eletta a publicata d'Inghilterra, by Michelangelo Florio. (forthcoming)
Historia delle cose occorse nel regno d’Inghilterra, in materia del Duca di Notomberlan dopo la morte do Odoardo VI , by Giulio Raviglio Rosso. (forthcoming)
Book II, Chapter XII and Book III, Chapter I of L’Historia Ecclesiastica della Rivolvzion d’Inghilterra, by Girolamo Pollini. (forthcoming)
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