On this day…19th August 1553


Diary of Henry Machyn
p.41

(The xix day were arraigned at Westminter hall sir Andrew Dudley, sir John Gates, sir Henry) Gattes, ser Thomas Plamer, and cast (to be hanged and) quartered.’


The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat
p.18

’Note, that on saterdaye the xixth of August ther was conveyed out of the Tower by water to Westminster, to be araygned, sir John Gates, sir Herry Gates, sir Androwe Dudley, and sir Thomas Palmer, where, without any queste, every one of theym pleaded giltye, saving Sir Thomas Pallmer, who saide that the truthe was, he never bare armes against the quenes majesty. “Well,” saithe the judges, “can ye denye but that ye ar culpable?” “Well then, sithe it is so,” saithe he, “I confesse the same.” Then they all submitted themselves to the queens mercy. Then the judges proceded in judgemente.’



21st August 1553


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