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Polynesian mythology and the tra- 

 ditions and history of the New Zea- 

 land race. See Life and Times of 

 Sir George Grey, W. L. & L. Rees, 

 3rd ed. 1893; Life, J. Collier, 1909. 

 Grey, LADY JANE (1537-54). 

 Nine days queen of England. 

 Daughter of Henry Grey, duke of 

 Suffolk, great-grand-daughter of 

 Henry VII, and cousin of Edward 

 VI, she was remarkable for her 

 beauty and accomplishments. Un- 

 der her tutor, John Aylmer, after- 

 wards bishop of London, she 

 acquired great proficiency in Greek, 

 Latin, Italian, French, 

 and Hebrew, and her p^ 

 learning aroused the ad- f 

 miration of the great u> ^-.^i 

 scholars of the day, Roger B&jHiS 

 Ascharu professing 

 amazement at her skill 

 in both speaking and 

 writing Greek. In pur- 

 suance of a project to 

 alter the royal succession 

 from the Tudor to the 

 Dudley family, she was 

 married May 21, 1553, 



volumes, including The Spirit of 

 the Border, 1905; Desert Gold, 

 1913; Wildfire, 1917 ; The Man of 

 the Forest, 1920. 



Grey Book. General term in 

 Belgium for publications issued by 

 the government, containing diplo- 

 matic correspondence or other let- 

 terpress relating to foreign affairs. 



Grey de Ruthyn, LORD. Eng- 

 lish title borne "by the family of 

 Clifton. Its first holder, Roger de I 

 Grey, a son of Lord Grey de Wilton, 1 

 was called to Parliament in 1324, I 

 the barony being thus created. His 9 



Greyiriars, Edinburgh. 1. Martyrs' 

 Memorial, near the graves of many 

 Covenanters who suffered death be- 

 tween 1661 and 1688. 2. The Churches 

 from the S.E. 3. Entrance to the 

 Covenanters' Prison in the churchyard 



to Guildford Dudley, son of the 

 duke of Northumberland, and her 

 accession was announced July 10. 

 On July 19 her short reign ended, 

 and she was beheaded on Tower 

 Hill, Feb. 12, 1554. 



Grey, ZANE (b. 1875). American 

 story writer. He was bom at 

 Zanesville, Ohio, Jan. 31, 1875, 

 and educated at the university of 

 Pennsylvania. Having studied law, 

 he practised in New York, 1898- 

 1904, and then turned to story 

 writing. He won wide popularity 

 by his romances of adventurous 

 life in the American wild. His first 

 story, Betty Zane, 1904, was 

 followed by a rapid succession of 



descendant, Edmund, the 4th 

 baron, was made earl of Kent in 

 1465, being then lord treasurer of 

 England. When Henry, 8th earl of 

 Kent, died without sons in 1639, 

 his earldom became extinct, but 

 the barony passed to a nephew, 

 Charles Longueville. His daughter, 

 the wife of Sir Henry Yelverton, 

 . succeeded, and her son Henry was 

 made a viscount. His son, the 2nd 

 viscount, was made earl of Sussex 

 in 1717. 



The title was held by the earls 

 until the 3rd earl died in 1799. It 

 then passed to a grandson, Henry 



Lady Jane Grey, 

 Queen of England 



m a contemporary portrait 



n Edward Gould, from him to 

 , his daughter, wife of the 

 marquess of Hastings, and 

 from her to her son, the last 

 marquess of Hastings. From 

 1869-85 it was in abeyance, 

 but in 1885 it was adjudged 

 to Bertha, wife of Augustus 

 W. Clifton, and sister of the 

 marquess of Hastings. Her 

 two sons succeeded in turn. 



Greyfriars. Two parishes, Old 

 and New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 

 Scotland. The name derives from 

 a Franciscan monastery of Obser- 

 vantines founded 1436 by James I, 

 and destroyed in 1547 by the 

 English. The Old Church, built 1614 

 and restored after a fire in 1845, 

 had a spire, destroyed 1721 ; the 

 New Church was added in 1721, 

 and its organ was the first intro- 

 duced into a Scottish Presbyterian 

 place of worship. On the grave- 

 stone of Boswell of Auchinleck 

 was signed the National Covenant, 

 Feb. 28, 1638. From June-Nov., 

 1679, 1,200 Covenanters, taken 

 prisoner at Bothwell Brig, were 

 interned here. In 1707, in a corner 

 of the churchyard, was erected the 

 Martyrs' Memorial. 



The churchyard contains many 

 memorials of a time when, in 

 Stevenson's words, every mason was 

 a pedestrian Holbein. See Covenant- 

 ers ; Edinburgh ; consult Epitaphs 

 and Inscriptions in Greyfriars, 

 J. Brown, 1867 ; Edinburgh, R. L. 

 Stevenson, 1878 ; Tide-Marks of 

 the Covenant, J. N. Ogilvie, 1910. 

 Greyhound. Breed of dog of 

 Eastern origin, famed for its great 

 speed. One of the oldest breeds of 

 domesticated hunting dogs; it is 

 represented on ancient Egyptian 

 monuments. It Is distinguished by 

 its slender form, long legs, and long 

 rat-like tail. Its muzzle is long, 

 and well adapted to seize an animal 

 going at great speed. To strengthen 



