Anecdotes of the Aristocracy, and Episodes in Ancestral Story (1)
by John Bernard Burke (9781150592942)

Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: E. Churton Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A TRIO OF REMARKABLE LEICESTERSHIRE SISTERS. More than three hundred years ago, there lived in one of the pleasant valleys of Leicestershire three little girls -- the children of the same parents. They were not more interesting than children generally are. They prattled, pouted, and played like other children; like other children, they had " no cares beyond to-day," yet were there cares in store for them, and for their parents, too, such as fall to the lot of few. In plain and humble English, their names were Jenny, Kitty, and Polly, but as that was a language never used by their parents, we will call them Jane, Katherine, and Mary; and when we add, that one became queen of the most powerful kingdom in the world -- that the second had a fate more romantic than all romance -- and that thethird was the wife of a simple yeoman, the reader will easily guess that we are alluding to Jane, Katherine, and Mary Grey. Probably there is no female character in the whole range of English history so familiar to Leicestershire people as that of the leading lady of our trio. Her strange and touching story is one of the earliest of our true nursery tales, and most of us can remember how willing we were to hope that a tale so sad and strange should indeed be a tale. We could not reconcile with a life so innocent and pure, an end so violent and so cruel When we learnt that history is generally truth, -- her birth-place became almost holy ground. Few indeed are there among the better classes of Leicestershire, who have not at some time visited Bradgate, and felt how an artl...

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