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¶ As for the principals of this faction, namelie Tho|mas Wiat, Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 1087, 1088 1089. Wiat sent to the tower. William Kneuet, Thomas Cobham, two brethren named Mantels, and Alexander Bret were brought by sir Henrie Ierningam by water to the tower prisoners, where sir Philip Denie receiued them at the bulworke, & as Wiat passed by he said; Go traitor, there was neuer such a traitor in Eng|land. To whom sir Thomas Wiat turned, and said, I am no traitor, I would thou shouldst well know thou art more traitor than I, it is not the point of an ho|nest man to call me so, and so went forth. When he came to the tower gate,Sir Thomas Bridges lieu|tenant of the tower. sir Thomas Bridges lieute|nant tooke in through the wicket, first Mantell, and said: Ah thou traitor, what hast thou and thy compa|nie wrought? But he holding downe his head said nothing. Then came Thomas Kneuet, whom master chamberleine gentleman porter of the tower tooke in. Then came Alexander Bret, whome sir Thomas Pope tooke by the bosome, saieng: Oh traitor, how couldest thou find in thy heart to worke such a villa|nie, as to take wages, and being trusted ouer a band of men, to fall to hir enimies, returning against hir in battell. Bret answered Yea; I haue offended in that case. Then came Thomas Cobham, whome sir Thomas Poines tooke in, and said, Alas maister Cobham, what wind headed you to worke such trea|son? And he answered, Oh sir I was seduced. Then came in sir Thomas Wiat,The zeale of the lieutenant sheweth it self by his hot lan|guage. whom sir Iohn Bridges tooke by the collar and said, Oh thou villen & vnhap|pie traitor, how couldest thou find in thy hart to worke such detestable treason to the quéenes maie|stie, who gaue thée thy life and liuing once alreadie, although thou diddest before this time beare armes in the field against hir, and now to yéeld hir battell, &c. If it were not (saith he) but that the law must passe vpon thee, I would sticke thée through with my dag|ger. To the which Wiat holding his arms vnder his side, and looking grieuouslie with a grim looke vpon the lieutenant, said; It is no maisterie now: and so passed on. Thomas Wiat had on a shirt of maile, with sleeues verie faire, theron a veluet cassocke, and a yellow lace, with the windlace of his dag hanging thereon, and a paire of boots on his legs, and on his head a faire hat of veluet, with a broad bone-worke lace about it. William Kneuet, Thomas Cobham, and Bret, were the like apparelled.

On the morrow and the next daie following were brought into the tower prisoners, George Cobham, sir William Cobham, Anthonie Kneuet, Hugh Booth, Thomas Uane, Robert Rudstone, sir George Harper, Edward Wiat, Edward Fog, George Moore, and Cutbert Uaughan. The tenth of Fe|bruarie,The duke of Suffolke and the lord Greie brought to the tower. the earle of Huntington and other gentle|men, and to the number of thrée hundred horssemen, brought to the tower as prisoners the duke of Suf|folke, and the lord Iohn Greie his brother from Co|uentrie, where the duke had remained thrée daies af|ter his taking in the house and custodie of Christo|pher Warren alderman there.Sir Henrie Isleie. The eleuenth daie sir Henrie Isleie who had fled, was brought into the tower in an old fréese cote, an old paire of hosen, all his apparell not worth foure shillings. The same daie came in two of the Culpepers, one Cromar, & Tho|mas Rampton the duke of Suffolks secretarie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The twelfe of Februarie being mondaie, about ten of the clocke, there went out of the tower to the scaffold on the tower hill, the lord Gilford Dudleie, sonne to the duke of Northumberland,The lord Gil|ford Dudleie executed on the tower. husband to the ladie Iane Greie daughter to the duke of Suffolke; and without the bulworke gate, maister Thomas Offleie one of the shiriffes of London receiued him and brought him to the scaffold, where after a small declaration he knéeled downe and said his praiers. Then holding vp his eies & hands to heauen with teares, at the last he desired the people to praie for him, & after he was beheaded. His bodie being laid in a cart, and his head in a cloth, was brought into the chappell within the tower, where the ladie Iane, whose lodging was in maister Patridges house; did sée his dead carcasse taken out of the cart, as well as she did see him before aliue going to his death: a sight (as might be supposed) to hir worse than death. By this time was there a scaffold made vpon the greene ouer against the white tower,The [...] of the ladie Iane lead to execution. for the ladie Iane to die vpon, who being nothing at all abashed neither with feare of hir owne death, which then approched, neither with the sight of the dead carcasse of hir hus|band when he was brought into the chapell, came forth, the lieutenant leading hir, with countenance nothing abashed, neither hir eies anie thing moiste|ned with teares, with a booke in hir hand, wherein she praied vntill she came to the said scaffold. Whereon when she was mounted, this noble yoong ladie as she was indued with singular gifts both of learning and knowledge, so was she as patient and mild as a|nie lambe at hir execution: and a little before hir death vttered these words.]

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