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 LADY JANE GREY. 349 Times," has cited a paper, written by the Marquis of Dorset, in which, after the trial and execution of Lord Seymour, the marquis endeavors to justify to the protector his having al- lowed his daughter to be under the care of Seymour. He declares that it was his determination not to have allowed his daughter to return to Seymour after the queen-dowager's death, "but that he was so earnest in. persuading him, that he could not resist him ; amongst which persuasions was, that he would marry her to the king's majesty!" To induce the Marquis of Dorset to comply with this request, he promised to lend him two thousand pounds without bond ; and, on Lady Jane being sent, he paid over an installment of five hundred pounds. Thus was this amiable and pure-minded girl, even in he* mere girlhood, made the object of ambitious speculation by these upstart Seymours, both brothers being equally anxious to secure her for the completion of their plans. Lord Seymour was ready to marry her to the young king, or, failing that, to marry her himself ; thus bringing himself into the track of a chance for the throne. His brother, the lord protector, was no whit behind him in plans touching Lady Jane ; for Mr. Howard quotes a letter from the Marquis of Dorset to the lord pro- tector, in which it comes out that Somerset himself was in treaty for Lady Jane, for his son, the Earl of Hertford. Being severed from the schemes of those unprincipled brothers by their successive deaths by the axe, Lady Jane fell into the toils of another still more upstart and unprincipled adventurer, Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and perished as the victim of his treason. While these daring players for the stake of the crown of England were thus building their insolent projects on the alliance of Lady Jane, she was prosecuting, as if wholly un- conscious of them, her studies and philosophical inquiries with the profoundest pleasure to herself, and to the fame of her talents and goodness throughout Europe. Her Latin letters to Henry Bullinger, one of the most distinguished religious reformers of the age, still remain, and bear ample testimony to the elegance of her latinity, and the solid and far-seeing qualities of her mind, at the age of fourteen. They read not like the letters of a mere girl, but of a woman of mature years, full of experience and of the most conscientious and heartfelt interest in the progress and purification of the Church. In October, 1551, her father was raised by Edward the Sixth