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 agreed to give up all her pretensions, in favour of her her daughter. About six o'clock in the afternoon, Lady Jane was pro- claimed Queen with all due solemnity in the city, the same day she assumed the regal title, and proceeded to exercise so,me acts of sovereignty. The royalty of this unfortunate Lady was, however, but of short duration; for, on the 19th of the same month the Princess Mary was proclaimed Queen in Cheapside; so that the reign of Jane continued only about nine days:- Which gave birth to y=the common proverb of, A nine days wonder!

The following incident has been related, to shew the suddenness of the revolution, which reduced Queen Jane to the condition of a private person.——There was one Mr. Edward Underhill, descended from a good family in Warwickshire, who, for his services in the army had been taken into the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, in which he remained during the reign of Edward, and; was now about Queen Jane, to whom he was known, and by whom he was well esteemed.-