22nd August 1553


The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat
p.19

‘On tuisdaie the xxijth of Auguste thir came into the Tower all the garde, with their wepons…And when he came upon the scaffolde, first, he put of his gowne of crane-colored damaske, and then he leaned apon the raile towarde the est, and saide to the people, almost in every point as he had saide in the chapel, saving that when he came to the confession of his belife he said, “I trust, my lorde bushope here will beare me wines hereof.” At the last he put of his jerkun and doblet, and then saide his prayers; after which tyme the hangman reched to him a kerchef, which he dyd knit himself about his ees, and then layd him downe, and so was behedded.’



29th August 1553