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a sixteen-year-oldshe must
have known it could not possibly succeed. She had been brought
up “reformed” but cannot have believed it was God’s will that the
succession should be wrenched from the rightful claimantMary.
She is recorded as saying that she loathed and repudiated her fa-
ther-in-law and his schemes. As she expectedthe plot to make her
sovereign failed ignominiously. Mary was everywhere greeted as
the rightful sovereignand after eleven daysJane passed from be-
ing a queen in the tower to being a prisoner. Four months later she
was charged with high treason at the London Guildhallappearing
in “a black gown of clotha French hoodall blacka black velvet
book hanging before herand another book in her handopen.” She
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to death. The hopeless rebellion
of Wyattin which her worthless father took partmade it inevitable
that the sentence was carried out. She and her husband were both
beheaded the same dayFebruary 121554she witnessing his death
just before her own. She said a few words from the scaffoldsaying
she had never wanted the crown and that she died “a true Christian
woman.”
Was she a heroine? We know pitifully little about her or her
thoughts. The few le yilai:
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