Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558

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Twenty kings and queens of England. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Queen Mary blessing cramp rings. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916.

Queen Mary performing the Royal Touch. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916.

Queen Mary I of England, head and shoulders, in a medallion. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1736, after H. Eworth.

The giant Gog extricating the dwarf Xit from a bear in the Lions Tower at the Tower of London, watched by Queen Mary I. Etching by George Cruikshank.

A procession to St. Mary's Church, Oxford by the convocations of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and the burning of the bones of Protestant theologians in Cambridge. Line engraving by Myers.

King Henry VIII and his three children; Will Summers, the King's jester is in the background. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi after H. Holbein the Younger, ca. 1800.

Queen Mary I touching the neck of a boy for the King's evil (scrofula). Watercolour by M.S. Lapthorn, 1911, after a watercolour, 16th. century.

Fit to rule : how royal illness changed medical history. Part 1.Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men.

King Philip II of Spain and Queen Mary I of England. Etching by J. Brown after G.P. Harding after A. Mor.

Illustrations of British history, biography, and manners, in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, and James I, exhibited in a series of original papers, selected from the mss. of the noble families of Howard, Talbot, and Cecil; containing ... a great part of the correspondence of Elizabeth and her ministers, with George, Sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, during the fifteen years in which Mary, Queen of Scots, remained in his custody / With numerous notes. And observations by Edmund Lodge.

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Mary I of England

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Fit to rule : how royal illness changed medical history. Part 1.Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men.

Queen Mary I of England, head and shoulders, in a medallion. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1736, after H. Eworth.

King Philip II of Spain and Queen Mary I of England. Etching by J. Brown after G.P. Harding after A. Mor.

King Henry VIII and his three children; Will Summers, the King's jester is in the background. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi after H. Holbein the Younger, ca. 1800.