Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1890 — The Duke of Suffolk's flood. [ARTICLE]

The Duke of Suffolk's flood.

In the Holly Trinity Churoh, in the Minories, is preserved in a glass case beneath the pulpit a human head. The vicar, Rev. Samuel Kinna, has m cetttly issued a book containing details about this caput mortuum. It is supposed to be that of the duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Gray, who was beheaded in 1554, shortly after the ex& cution of his daughter. There is a tradition that the executioner did not, at was usual in such cases, bold upthi bead of the duke to the people, but let it simply drop into the basket,the supposition being that he was bribed tt bring it secretly to the church anl place it in the vault, where it wat found by the earl of Dartmouth. Thl* story is doubted by a former vicar, who writes to say that it is more pro bable that "the head belongs to boom unknown person of later times.**