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amiable and celebrated though unfortunate Lady, was very nobly descended by both parents. Her father was Henry Gray, Marquis of Dorset, who was descended in a direct line from Sir Thomas Gray, Knight of the Garter, created Marquis of Dorset by Edward IV. who married his mother. And her mother was the Lady Frances Brandon, the oldest of the two surviving daughters of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, by Mary, Queen Dowager of France, youngest daughter of King Henry VII. Lady Jane very astonishing proof of the pregnancy of her parts. Her form was extremely pleasing but the beauties of her mind were still more engaging. She seemed, we are told, to have been born