Anglorum speculum, or, The worthies of England in church and state alphabetically digested into the several shires and counties therein contained : wherein are illustrated the lives and characters of the most eminent persons since the conquest to this present age : also an account of the commodities and trade of each respective county and the most flourishing cities and towns therein.

Princes.

Jane Grey, eldest Daughter of Hen. D. of Suff. by Fr. Bandon eldest Daughter to Mary, second Sister to K. Hen. 8. was born at Broadgate, near Lei∣cester. She lived many pious, but few pleasant days, whose Soul was never out of the Non-age of A∣fflictions, till death made her of full years to inherit Happiness. Whilst a Child, her Father's was to her an House of Correction, nor did she write Wo∣man sooner than she did subscribe Wife, and in obe∣dience to her Parents, was unfortunately matched to the Lord Guilford Dudley, (a pious Gentleman,) but Son to an Ambitious Father. She was Pro∣claimed,

but never Crowned Queen, living in the Tower longer a Captive than a Queen. Her Fami∣ly, by snatching at a Crown which was not, lost a Coronet which was their own. She suffered on Tower-hill 1554/5 Feb. 12.

Kath, Grey, 2d. Daughter to Henry D. of Suffolk was married to the Lord Herbert Son to the Earl of Pembroke, who knowing the Case altered with that Family, brake the Marriage quite off. Thus she be∣came a Heraclita or Lady of Lamentation. The Ro∣ses of whose cheeks looked very wan and pale thō they wanted not for watering. Afterward Ed. Sey∣mour E. of Hertford married her privately without the Queens Licence, and concealed it till her pregnan∣cy discovered it. The English Proverb, It is good to be near a Kin to land, holdeth in private Patrimonles, not Titles to Crowns. Q. Elizabeth beheld her with a jealous eye, unwilling she should match either For∣reign Prince, English Peer, or any person whatsoever. The E. of Hartford being fined 15000l. was im∣prisoned with his Lady in the Tower, and severely forbidden her company. By bribing the Keeper he bought (what was his own) his Wives Embraces, and had by her a surviving Son Edw. Ancestor to the Right Honorable the D. of Som. She died Jan. 26. a Prisoner in the Tower, 1567, after 9 years Du∣rance therein. Whose Sister

Mary Grey the Youngest, Frighted with the in∣felicity of her two elder Sisters, forgot her Honour to remember her Safety, and married one whom She could love, and none need fear, Martin Kayes of Kent, Esq. Serjeant Porter and died without Issue 20 An. 1578.