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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 2: Engraved From Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country; With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions

From the Collection of the Most Noble the Marquis of Salisbury, at Hatfield.

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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 2: Engraved From Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country; With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions

The son of Henry the Eighth by Jane Seymour, was born at Hampton Court on the 12th of October, 1537, and died at Greenwich on the sixth of July, 1553.

The annals of this Prince present little more to our view than the strange events which attended the struggle between Seymour and Dudley for the possession of his person and authority. The bloody war with Scotland, and the dangerous insurrections which succeeded at home, occupied the ardent minds and employed the talents of those chiefs during the first two years of his reign; but the return of national peace gave birth to the bitterest discord between them; and their wisdom and bravery, which in the late public exigencies had shone resplendently in the council and in the field, presently sank into the contracted cunning and petty malice of factious politicians. The Protector sought to intrench himself in the strong hold of popular favour, and was perhaps the first English nobleman who endeavoured to derive power or security from that source: his antagonist, too proud and too artful to engage in an untried scheme, humiliating in its progress and uncertain in its event, threw himself into the arms of a body of discontented Nobles, lamenting the fallen dignity of the Crown, and the tarnished honour of their order. He proved successful: the Protector was accused of High Treason, and suffered on the scaffold, and the young King was transferred to Dudley, together with the regal power.

These circumstances, well known as they are, will be found to throw a new lustre on Edwards's character.

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