Lady Rosamond's Book by Lucy Ellen Guernsey

I SUPPOSE I had better begin by telling how I came by this book, though that is not the beginning either, but perhaps it will do as well as any other to start from. Dear Mother says I am to write a chronicle of my life, as it seems some ladies of our family have done before me. So here I begin by first putting the date:

_St. Swithin's Day, in the year of Grace, 1529._