Prisoners of the Tower of London Being An Account of Some Who At Divers Times
Prisoners of the Tower of London Being An Account of Some Who At Divers Times
Violet Brooke Hunt
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Sir Henry Beddingfield, her governor, did himself keep the keys, trusting no man there- with. Whereupon she called him ' her jailer ' ; and he kneeling down desired her Grace not to call him so, for he was appointed here to be one of her officers. * From such officers, ' quoth she, c Good Lord deliver me. ' More than once, attempts of a most mysterious kind were made against her life, her own servants were removed from her, and she became really ill both in mind and body. " Would that I could c...hange places with yon milkmaid, " she said wistfully, as she watched the rosy-cheeked, light-hearted girl tripping along the meadow with her pail. " Her lot is happier than mine, and her life merrier. " In the Bodleian Library at 1 62 PRISONERS OF THE TOWER Oxford, there is a volume of St. Paul's Epistles, with a cover beautifully worked by Elizabeth, and inside the words written on a blank page : " August I walk many times into the pleasant fields of Holy Scripture, where I plucke up the goodlisome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chew them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory by gathering them together, so that having tasted their sweetness I may the less perceive the bitterness of this miserable life.
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