Produced by Giovanni Fini, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. —Whereas adequate character is unavalaible, superscripts are rendered as word^[sup]. —Bold text has been rendered as =bold text=. THE SISTERS OF LADY JANE GREY [Illustration: [_Frontispiece_ LADY KATHERINE GREY (_From the original painting, by an unknown artist, in the possession of Mrs. Wright-Biddulph, bearing the following inscription_:) “Now thus but like to change And fade as dothe the flowre Which springe and bloom full gay, And wythrethe in one hour.”] THE SISTERS OF LADY JANE GREY _AND THEIR WICKED GRANDFATHER_ BEING THE TRUE STORIES OF THE STRANGE LIVES OF CHARLES BRANDON, DUKE OF SUFFOLK, AND OF THE LADIES KATHERINE AND MARY GREY, SISTERS OF LADY JANE GREY, “THE NINE-DAYS’ QUEEN” BY RICHARD DAVEY AUTHOR OF “THE SULTAN AND HIS SUBJECTS,” “THE PAGEANT OF LONDON,” AND “THE NINE-DAYS’ QUEEN” _WITH 14 ILLUSTRATIONS_ LONDON CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD. 1911 RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E. AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE MAJOR MARTIN HUME A GREAT HISTORIAN OF TUDOR TIMES THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY A STUDENT OF THE SAME PERIOD OF OUR NATIONAL HISTORY PREFACE