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      The Monthly Repository

      THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY

      Female Sovereignsof England When Young

      FEMALE SOVEREIGNSOF ENGLAND WHEN YOUNG

      The Accession Of Queen To The Throne Ayo...

      The accession of Queen to the throne ayoung especially _—^ — - — — - —— — — - w « _w va « m - _\^ _JL-a _v / _* - _* KJ | _^ _W _> _VAIAIA T under existing circumstances , renders it not uninteresting to consider , what sort of characters her predecessors evinced at the same time of life , and to glance at the way in which they were borne out afterwards . A word

      also , though it be a word only ( for how without better knowledge of her can we say more ?) cannot but be said of the youthful Monarch herself , whose

      interest was summed up the other day in an admirable and statesman-like article in the Morning Chronicle , as consisting in being to Political Reformation what

      Elizabeth was to Religious , — its willing and glorious star , not its foolish torch , attempting to _frighten it back . If volumes were written on the subject , they could not say more than that single analogy . Our feel-

      The Accession Of Queen To The Throne Ayo...

      ings , however , will lead us to add another word or tyro before we conclude ; but we will observe the order of time , and _loojt back first . The females who have

      reigned in this country , previous to her Majesty , are , Mary , Elizabeth , and Anne ; for though Mary , the wife of William the Third , was Queen in her own right , circumstances and her own disposition left the exercise of power entirely to her

      husband ; and as to poor Lady Jane Grey , to whom Mr Tur « _- ner , in his valuable history , has not improperly devoted a chapter as " Queen Jane / ' she did but reign long enough , poor soul ! ( ten or eleven days ) to undo the romance of her

      character , and quarrel with her husband ; though the world , with an honourable credulity , have Jbeen in the habit of taking them

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/1/