(SOURCE:
Authorised guide to the Tower of London, 1897, pp 97-98)

LADY JANE GREY (grandchild of Henry VII)
Queen of England and Ireland for 9 days
executed at ~16

"By this tyme was ther a scaffolde made upon the grene

over agaynst the White Tower for the saide Lady Jane

to die apon. . . .

. . . WITH A BOKE IN HER HAND whereon she praied all

the way till she cam to the saide scaffolde whereon

then she was mounted; this noble young ladie, as she

was indued with singular gifts both of learning and knowledge,

so was she as patient and mild as any lambe at hir execution.

Then she stode up and gave her mayde, Mistres Tylney,

her gloves and handkercher, AND HER BOKE to Maister

Thomas Brydges, the lyvetenantes brother.

Forthwith she untied her gowne. The hangman went to

her to have helped her of therewith, and also her frose

paste and neckercher, geving to her a fayre

handkercher to knytte about her eyes.

Then the hangman kneled downe and asked forgevenes

whom she forgave most willingly. Then he willed her to

stand upon the strawe, which doing she sawe the blocke.

Then she say'd," I pray you despatche me quickly.'

Then she kneeled downe saying, 'Will you take it

of before I lay me downe?' and the hangman

answered her, 'No, madame.' She tied the kercher about

her eyes. Then feeling for the block, saide, 'What shal I do?

where is it?' One of thte standers by guyding her thereunto,

she layde her head downe upon the block, and stretched

forth her body, and said, 'Lord into Thy handes I commende

my spirite,' and so she ended."

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Lady Jane was buried in St. Peter's Chapel beside her husband,

Lord Guildford Dudley.

JANE'S FATHER
(critical of her for not going hunting with her family)
You should have been out with us... ...

1:14 (11:13) You might think, Father [priest],
the first born of the House of Suffolk
might be considering her future in
her sixteenth year. You might think ...
(knocking book from Jane's hand)
instead of pawing over books all day long.
(spits)
She could be be, could be learning things that
might be useful to her husband.
(a beat)
Don't you think so, Doctor?

1:39 (11:38)
(The young King Edward enters, in her favor.)
EDWARD
What were you reading, cousin Jane?
(picks up the book, looks at it approvingly)
Plato.
(moving away)
Good morning, Dr. (Fecana), do you have [the letters of my sister?]
(looking back)
Her learning is an example to us all.

(NOTE: Yet the movie does not include
her taking a book with her to her execution,
as the written account relates. Nor does the
1936 film. Surely the next one will get it right.:)