Quotes from authors passed in 1554
The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.
Jane Grey
I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.
Jane Grey
Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.
Jane Grey
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Jane Grey
The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.
Jane Grey
Alfonso X 
Steven Morrissey 
Hans Christian Anderson 
John D. MacDonald 
Mick Ralphs 
Emeril Lagasse 
Tanya Tucker 
Chuck Norris Authors that died in 1554