The lord Rochford condemned.Immediatlie the lord Rochford the queenes bro|ther was likewise arreigned and condemned: the lord maior of London, his brethren the aldermen, the wardens and foure persons mo of euerie the twelue principall companies being present. The seauen|teenth of Maie, the lord Rochford brother to the quéene, Henrie Norris, Marke Smeton, William Brierton, and Francis Weston, all of the kings priuie chamber, about matters touching the quéene were beheaded on the tower hill:Quéene Anne and diuerse others behea|ded. the lord Roch|fords bodie with the head was buried in the chappell of the tower, the other foure in the churchyard there. On the ninetéenth of Maie quéene Anne was on a scaffold (made for that purpose) vpon the gréene within the tower of London, beheaded with the sword of Calis, by the hands of the hangman of that towne: hir bodie with the head was buried in the quéere of the chappell in the tower.]
20.1. The words of queene Anne at hir death.
The words of queene Anne at hir death.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 _GOod christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am iudged to die, and therfore I will speake nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speake anie thing of that whereof I am accused & condemned to die, but I praie God saue the king and send him long to reigne ouer you, for a gentler, nor a more mercifull prince was there neuer, and to me he was euer a good, a gentle, and a souereigne lord. And if anie person will meddle of my cause, I require them to iudge the best. And thus I take my leaue of the world, and of you all, and I hartilie desire you all to praie for me, Oh Lord haue mercie on me, to God I com|mend my soule, Iesu receiue my soule: di|uerse times repeting those words, till that hir head was striken off with the sword.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now bicause I might rather saie much than suffi|cientlie inough in praise of this noble quéene, as well for hir singular wit and other excellent qualities of mind, as also for hir fauouring of learned men, zeale of religion, and liberalitie in distributing almes in reliefe of the poore, I will refer the reader vnto ma|ster Fox his volume of Acts and Monuments,I. For in mai|tyrologio. where he commendeth hir mild nature in taking admoni|tion, prooueth hir marriage lawfull, defendeth hir suc|cession, ouerthroweth the sinister iudgements, opini|ons and obiections of backebiters against that ver|tuous quéene, sheweth hir faith and trust in Christ at hir death, and finallie how the protestants of Ger|manie forsooke king Henrie for the death of so good a princesse. ¶Anglorum praelia saith, Ang. praelia that this good quéene was forwarned of hir death in a dreame, wherein Morpheus the god of sléepe (in the likenesse of hir grandfather) appéered vnto hir, and after a long narration of the vanities of this world (how enuie reigneth in the courts of princes, maligning the for|tunate estate of the vertuous, how king Henrie the eight and his issue should be the vtter ouerthrow and expulsion of poperie out of England, and that the go|uernment of quéene Elizabeth should be established in tranquillitie & peace) he saith vnto hir in conclu|sion by waie of prophesie, as our poet hath recorded:
Forti sis animo, tristis si nuncius adsum,Ann [...] [...] prae|dicitur. Pla. in Phe. Socratis tale quiddam somnia [...]i [...].Insperata tuae velox necis aduenit hora,Intra triginta spacium moriere dierum:Hoc magnum mortis solamen habeto futurae,Elizabetha suis praeclarè filia gestisNomen ad astraferet patris, matrísque, suúmque.]