[1] The same morning earelie,Meanes to restraine the multitude from the dukes exe|cution. the conestables of e|uerie ward in London (according to a precept direc|ted from the councell to the maior) strictlie charged euerie houshold of the same citie, not to depart anie of them out of their houses, before ten of the clocke of that daie: meaning thereby to restreine the great number of people that otherwise were like to haue béen at the said execution. Notwithstanding, by sea|uen of the clocke, the tower hill was couered with a great multitude, repairing from all parts of the ci|tie, as well as out of the suburbs. And before eight of the clocke, the duke was brought to the scaffold, in|closed with the kings gard, the shiriffes officers, the warders of the tower, & other with halberds: where as he nothing changing neither voice or counte|nance, Iohn Fox. The dukes behauiour as his death. but in a maner with the same gesture which he commonlie vsed at home, knéeling downe vpon both his knees, and lifting vp his hands, commended himselfe vnto God. After he had ended a few short praiers, standing vp againe, and turning himselfe toward the east side of the scaffold, nothing at all a|bashed (as it séemed vnto those that stood by) neither with the sight of the ax, neither yet of the hangman, nor of present death, but with the like alacri [...]ie and chéerefulnesse of mind and countenance as before [page 1068] times he was accustomed to heare the causes & sup|plications of other, & speciallie of the poore (towards whome as it were with a certeine fatherlie loue to his children he alwaies shewed himselfe most atten|tiue) he vttered these words to the people.