Volume the Second: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, Add. MS. 59874
the Lady Jane
Grey, who has been already men--tioned as reading
Greek. Whether she really un--derstood that language or
whether such a Studyproceeded only from
an exceſs of vanityCockylorumfor which I beleive she was always rather remarkable, is
uncertain. Whatever might be the cause, she preserved the same
ap--pearance of knowledge, & contempt of
what was generally esteemed pleasure, during thewhole of
her Life, for she declared herselfdispleased with being appointed Queen,
andwhile conducting to the Scaffold, she
wrotea Sentence in latin & another in Greekon
seeing the dead Body of her Husbandaccidentally paſsing that
way.
