| [9] There is a large number of records now in the State Paper | | Office, which are known as the “Baga de Secretis,” and are | | the official papers connected with many of the most important | | State trials; these records are kept in ninety-one small bags | | or pouches, whence the name of the collection. They have been | | calendared in the third, fourth, and fifth Reports of the | | Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records. These interesting documents | | begin with the trial of Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, | | in 1499, and end in the year 1813. In Pouch Nine there are | | the reports of the trials of Anne Boleyn and her brother Lord | | Rochford. | | | | [10] On her father’s side Lady Jane Grey’s descent was as | | follows:—Thomas Grey was Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s (the Queen | | of Edward IV.) eldest son by her first marriage to Sir John Grey, | | eighth Lord Ferrers of Groby in Leicestershire. Sir John was | | killed at the second battle of St Albans, fighting on the side of | | King Henry. His son Thomas Grey was created Earl of Huntingdon in | | 1471 and Marquis of Dorset in 1475. In the latter year he married | | Cicely, the daughter and heiress of William, Lord Bonville and | | Harrington. By this marriage he had a family of seven sons and | | eight daughters, and his grandson was the father of Lady Jane | | Grey. | | | | [11] I know of only one satisfactory portrait of Lady Jane Grey, | | and that belongs to Lord Beauchamp and is kept at Madresfield | | Court. By Lord Beauchamp’s kindness I am allowed to reproduce | | that portrait, together with its companion picture of Lord | | Guildford Dudley. | | | | [12] The minutes of this trial are in the Baga de Secretis, Pouch | | xxiv. in the Public Record Office. | | | | [13] This book, a manual of prayers in square vellum, is now in | | the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum. It is thought that Lady | | Jane had borrowed it from Sir John Brydges, carrying it with her | | to the scaffold, and there returning it to its owner by the hands | | of his brother, although, as the Lieutenant was present, it is | | difficult to understand why she did not give it to him personally. | | | | [14] Sir Henry Lee was a great lover of jousts and tournaments, | | and was noted for his prowess in the lists. He died in 1611. His |