[1] [2] When he had spoken these words, suddenlie there was a great noise heard,Great feare among the people assem|bled on the tower hill. Rich. Grafton. Iohn Stow. wherevpon the people were streight driuen into a great feare, few or none knowing the cause. Wherefore I thinke it good to write what I saw (saith Iohn Stow) concerning that matter. The people of a certeine hamlet which were warned to be there by seauen of the clocke to giue their attendance on the lieutenant, now came tho|rough the posterne, and perceiuing the duke to be al|readie on the scaffold, the foremost began to run, cri|eng to their fellowes to follow fast after. Which sud|dennes of these men, being weaponed with bils and halberds, & this running caused the people which first saw them, to thinke some power had come to haue rescued the duke from execution, and therefore cried Awaie awaie. Wherevpon the people ran, some one waie, some an other, manie fell into the tower ditch, and they which tarried, thought some pardon had beene brought: some said it thundered, some that the ground mooued, but there was no such matter.