[1] [2] [3] This being doone, they departed without the wals of Paris, to a garden of pleasure, where they supped. After supper, the king departed to his place of Ma|drill, and the nobles of England vnto the castell of Louure. On mondaie, the admerall feasted the no|bles of England: vpon tuesdaie, the duke of Aniou the kings brother, and on wednesdaie the duke of A|lanson his yoonger brother, and so passed in feasting and banketting, with rich gifts on both parts. On fridaie,The ambassa|dours retur|ned out of France. The duke of Norffolke be|headed. the nobles of England tooke leaue of the king, and on sundaie came to saint Denis, and after to Bullongne, where they tooke ship, and returned into England the fourth of Iulie. The second of Iune in the morning, betwéene the houres of seuen and eight, Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke, was beheaded on a scaffold newlie set vp on tower hill. ¶ This execution in a short time was spred a|broad, for fame, which (as the poet saith in few words

— volat leuibus sublata per aethera pennis)

had sounded the same farre and néere: insomuch that in tract of time, as men had leasure to laie their col|lections togither, among other things this is recor|ded: euen of strangers. For the execution of an ho|norable personage must néeds be so much the more notorious, as his misdéed is dishonorable. Touching the duke therefore this I find in Schardius (howsoe|uer he came to the knowledge thereof) a moderne historien, Schaerdius in reb. gest. sub Maxi|mil. imperat. se|cundo pag. 2513. and doctor of the lawes in Basill. The duke of Norffolke, who (as we haue said) was condemned for treason the sixteenth daie of Ianuarie, was brought out of the tower of London, to a plaine hard by, which they call the hill;Forren nati|ons heare and write of the quéenes vn|bloudie go|uernement. in the middest whereof a scaffold had béene builded manie yeares ago seruing for execution: which being old was both rotten and ruinous. For queene Elisabeth hauing with mercie gouerned hir commonwealth, there was no punish|ment inflicted there vpon anie for the space of four|téene yeares. Wherefore a new scaffold must needs be made. Which when the duke at seuen of the clocke in the morning had mounted, hauing on a silken doublet, & a long gowne of like fine stuffe, all blacke,The [...] behauiour, & gesture of the duke at his execution. earnestlie he beheld the people round about with his cap on his head. Now when he had stood still a prettie while, and cast his eies vpon the scaffold, he asked whereabouts he might best stand to speake vnto the people? For the scaffold was foure square, and the people came flocking from all places. Now when he was directed to the east side thereof, and the people had muttered and whispered diuerslie among them|selues, master Alexander Nowell deane of Paules besought them that were present to be silent and still.Maister Nowell deane of Paules the dukes gh [...]st|lie father. Then began the duke to speake to the people as fol|loweth.