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Mary lay in state at St James's Palace. According to Jane Dormer, Mary came to London from Hampton Court at the end of August. She asked Dormer if she had recovered from her illness, a form of influenza called the "quartan ague", Dormer said she was well. [3] Mary replied, "So am not I". [4] [5]
The cause of death has been speculated to have been tuberculosis, appendicitis, or cancer. As an English princess, daughter of a king, sister to the current king, and a dowager queen of France, Mary Tudor's funeral and interment was conducted with much heraldic ceremony. [82] A requiem mass was held at Westminster Abbey. [83]
Upon his death, leading politicians proclaimed Mary's and Edward's Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, as queen instead. Mary speedily assembled a force in East Anglia and deposed Jane, who was eventually beheaded. Mary was—excluding the disputed reigns of Jane and the Empress Matilda—the first queen regnant of England.
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Executed for not recognizing Mary as Queen. Refused to convert to Catholicism before his death. Lady Jane Grey: 12 February 1554 Former de facto Queen of England and Ireland. Executed for high treason at Tower Hill under the Third Succession Act and the Treason Act 1547 establishing Queen Mary as the legitimate heir to the throne. Guilford Dudley
The three martyrs burnt during the reign of Mary Tudor were executed not for Lollardy (many of Lollardy's values having by then found expression in the ideas of the Reformation), but for continuing to hold Protestant views after the Catholic faith was restored under Mary. Laurence Saunders [13] was burnt in the city on 8 February 1555.
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