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G R E 
very Toft on both fides, hoary underneath ; peduncles 
axillary, about three together, three-flowered. Stem 
fhrubby. All parts of the plant very foft with nap. 
■Flowers fmaller than in G. Aflatica. 
12. Grewia falvifolia, or fage.leaved grewia: leaves 
oblong, quite entire ; flowers axillary, feveral pedi- 
celled ; petals bowed back, linear. A fhfu'b. Native 
of the Eaft Indies. 
13. Grewia-microcos, or microcos grewia: leaves 
ovate-oblong, flowers panicled. A tree. Native of the 
■Eafl Indies. 
Propagation and Culture. The common grewia may be 
propagated from cuttings or layers ; the cuttings fliould 
be taken off, and planted in April, before the buds 
fvvell, for they do not fucceed well after ; thefe cutting's 
ihould be planted in fmall pots filled with loamy earth, 
and the pots Ihould be plunged into a moderate hot-bed 
ot tanners bark, where, if they are duly watered, and 
in the heat of the day fhaded from the fun, they will 
take good root in about two months, and may then be 
gradually inured to bear the open air, into which they 
Ihould be removed in June, and placed in a flieltered 
lituation, where they may remain till autumn, when they 
mtifi be removed into the green-houfe; the belt time to 
’lay down the layers of this plant is in the fpring, before 
the buds come out, and thefe will be rooted by the 
fame time the following year, when they may be cut off 
from the old plants, and planted each into a feparate 
pot filled with a foft loamy foil. The beft time to re¬ 
move or tranfplant this plant is, either in the Ipring, 
- juft before the buds begin to fwell, or in autumn, when 
the leaves begin to drop ; for in fummer, when the 
plants are in full leaf, it will be very improper to dif- 
turb them. In winter thefe plants fhould be placed in 
the green-houfe, for they are too tender to live abroad 
in England ; but they fliould have as much free air as 
polfible in mild weather; for they only require to be 
protected from froft, and after their leaves are fallen 
they will require very moderate watering ; but in fum¬ 
mer they fliould be conftantly watered three or four 
tinies a-week in dry weather, and placed in a flieltered 
lituation, with other hardy g‘reen-houfe plants, where 
they will add to the variety. The other forts, being 
tender, will not live through the winter in England, 
unlefs they are placed in a warm ftove; nor do thofe 
plants'thrive well which are placed on (helves in the 
dry Itove; therefore th,e only method to have them fuc¬ 
ceed, is to place them in the baric-bed in the tan-ftove. 
In fummer thefe plants require a good ftiare of free air 
to be admitted to them, and fliould have water three or 
four times a-week in vi'arm weather; but in winter they 
mu ft be fparingly watered, and require to be kept warm. 
GREY, adj. igris, Fr. more properly written gray.] 
See Gray. 
Our green youth copies what grey finners a£t, 
When venerable age commends the faft. Dryden. 
GREY, /. in zoology, a badger. Scott. 
GREY (lady Jane), the innocent and amiable viftim 
of queen Mary’s unprincipled ambition, was the daugh¬ 
ter of Henry Grey marquis of Dorfet, by Frances Bran¬ 
don, daughter of Charles Brandon duke of Suffolk, 
and Mary, queen dowager of France, and After of our 
Henry VIII. Her birth is placed in 1537. From her 
early years fhe exhibited a quicknefs of parts that has 
rendered her one of the prodigies of her fex and age. 
Befldes the accomplifliments of needle-work, fair hand¬ 
writing, and mufic, ftie poffeffed fuch a knowledge of 
the learned languages as would be furprifing in the mod 
promising fcholar of the other fex. The learned Af- 
• clianii has recorded, that on paying her a vifit in her 
fourteenth year at her father’s feat in Leicefterfliire, he 
found her reading the Phaedon of Plato, while the reft of 
the family were hunting. She was then under the tuition 
of Mr. Aylmer, (afterwards biiliop of London.,) to whofe 
G R E 
kind and gentle treatment,—which was a contraft to the 
feverity of her parents, fhe attributed the delight fhe 
took in ltudy. She was able at this time even to write 
Greek with facility, and ftie isfaidalfo to have acquired 
not only the French and Italian languages, but the He¬ 
brew, Ch'aldee, and Arabic. Her folidily of judgment 
was equal to her readinefs of apprehenfion, and fhe dif- 
courfed upon the moft important topics with excellent 
fenfe. With all thefe endowments of the underftand- 
ing, ftie poffeffed the modefty and gentlenefs becoming 
her fex. She imbibed from her tutor the principles of 
the reformation, to which ftie remained unalterably at¬ 
tached. 
Dudley duke of Northumberland, while young king 
Edward Vi’s declining health alarmed him with the 
profpe£t of an approaching change, meditated the fe- 
curing of his authority by a projedt no lefs daring than 
criminal. Trufting in Edward’s zeai for the proteftant 
religion, he ventured to propofe to him the unfraternal 
and arbitrary aft of fetting aftde both his Afters from 
the fucceflion, and bequeathing his crown to lady Jane 
Grey, though her mother, in whom the right refided, 
was then living.^ Fie had previoufly procured a mar¬ 
riage, in May, 1553, between this lady and his own 
fourth fon, lord Guilford Dudley, an amiable youth, 
who foon gained the heart of his young bride. The adit 
altering the fucceflion was fpeedily drawn up, and Ed¬ 
ward died on July 6th of the fame year. On July 10th 
lady Jane’s father, then duke of Suffolk, accompanied 
by the duke of Northumberland, repaired to Durham- 
houfe, where the young couple refided, and paying ho¬ 
mage on his knees to his aftonilhed daughter, explained 
to her what had been done in her favour. She made 
many urgent and forcible objections to the defign, and 
pleaded the preferable right of the two princefles, and 
her own thorough averfion to a public and fplendid fta- 
tion ; but at length, overcome by the authority of her 
parents, and efpecially by the entreaties of her hufband, 
flie confented to become a pageant-queen. She was 
conveyed to the royal apartments in the Tower, and 
proclaimed in the city of London with all due folemni- 
ty : but with little acclamation on the part of the peo¬ 
ple. It is unneceffary here to repeat the events which 
fubverted her royalty, fince they are detailed under the 
article Eng land, vol. vi. p. 645-647. At the end of 
it, her father announced to her the neceflity of return¬ 
ing to a private ftation. She received the intelligence 
with perfect ferenity, and expreffed herfelf muchbetter 
pleafed with the aCt of relinquilhing, than fhe had been 
with that of affuming, the crown. Lady Jane and her 
hufband were arraigned, and fentence of death was pro¬ 
nounced upon them. She received the notification of 
this event with her accuftomed mildnefs and tranquil¬ 
lity, and prepared herfelf for the cataftrophe. Mary’s 
■religious zeal induced her to fend divines for the con- 
verfion of Jane to the catholic faith ; and the time firft 
fixed upon for the execution was prolonged three days, 
in order to aid their efforts. But they were encounter¬ 
ed with equal zeal on her part; and her conftancy re¬ 
mained unlhaken. On the evening before her death fhe 
wrote to her lifter, lady Catharine Grey, a letter, faid 
to have been in the Greek language, which fhe fent to 
her with the. prefent of a Greek Teftament. The al¬ 
leged fubftance of the letter in Englifh is given in the 
Biographia Biitannica ; but from i,ts length it may be 
doubted whether any fcholar in Europe could have 
compofed it in Greek within that time. Another ac¬ 
count, more,probable, fays, it was written in Latin. On 
the fatal morning, her hufband, who was confined fepa- 
rately, having obtained permiflion from the officers, lent 
a tender requeft to take a laft .farewel of her. This, 
however, through the apprehenfion that their refolution 
might be fliaken by fuch a meeting, file thought it beft 
to decline ; and fhe contented herfelf with giving him 
a parting token out of her window as he was led to ex- 
t ecution.. 
