10th July 1553


Diary of Henry Machyn
p.35

‘The x day of July was reseyved in to the Towre (the Queen Jane) with a grett company of lords and nobulls…after the qwen, and the duches of Suffke her mother, bering her trayn, with mony lades, and ther was a shot of gunnes and chamburs has nott be sene oft be-tweyn iii and v of (the clock); by vj of the cloke be-gane the proclamasyon of the same (after-) non (of) qwen Jane with ij Harold(s) and a trompet blohyng (declaring) that my lade Mare was unlawfully be-gotten, and so (went throught) Chepe to Fletstrett, proclamyng qwen Jane; and ther was a yong man taken that tym for spykng of serten words of qwen Mare, that she had the right tytle.’

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The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat
p.3

‘The 10 of July, in the afternoone, about 3 of the clocke, lady Jane was convayed by water to the Tower of London, and there received as queene. After five of the clocke, the same afternoone, was proclamation made of the death of king Edward the sixt, and how hee had ordained by his letters patent bearing sate the 21. Of June last past that the lady Jane should be heire to the Crowne of England, and the heire males of her body, &e.’

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Original Letters Relative to the English Reformation
p. 365-374 & 272-274

‘Jane is brought down to take possession of the Tower, and on the same day is proclaimed queen at London.’

Letter CLXXXII
Julius Terentianus to John (Ab Ulmis)
Strasburgh Nov 20 1553

‘When I had written thus far, my honoured friend in the Lord, the 10th of July arrives, when it is publicly proclaimed here, in the name of the aforesaid king Edward is dead, that the lady Frances aforesaid, the queen’s mother, had no son, and therefore as I understand, that the government of this realm had devolved upon this queen Jane, to which event may our good and gracious God grant his blessing! Amen.’

Letter CXXV
Richard Hilles to Henry Bullinger
London July 9 1553



12th July 1553