Nine Days Reign


Details of the events during the nine days reign were recorded by the author of the ‘Chronicle of Queen Jane’.

This can be found in the following:

The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt edited by John Gough Nichols

Extracts can be found in:

John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey’s Father-In-Law by Christine Hartweg

The Chronicles of the Tudor Queens by David Loades

Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey by Nicola Tallis

Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen by Anna Whitelock


Details of the events of the nine days reign were also recorded by Henry Machyn. Extracts can be found in:

From BL Cottonian MS Vitellius F.V in The Chronicles of the Tudor Queens by David Loades