[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.]