dismembered, that I may piously give my spirit to God without more pain; and that I desire for the honour of God and for charity.'[1]
The requests relating to the manner of the executions, it is satisfactory to find, were granted; and not only in the case of the two petitioners, but so far as I can learn in that of all the other sufferers. Wherever the scaffold becomes visible, the rope and the axe are the sole discernible implements of death. With respect to the other petition, I find among loose memoranda of Cromwell an entry 'for a book to be made of the wives and poor children of such as have suffered, to the intent his Grace may extend his mercy to them for their livings as to his Highness shall be thought convenient, and for payment of their debts.'[2] The 'mercy' seems to have been liberal. The forfeited properties, on the whole, after a longer or shorter interval, were allowed to descend without diminution, in their natural order.[3]
After some discussion it was settled that Darcy should suffer on Tower Hill; Juneand he was executed on the 20th of June. Sir Thomas Percy, Bigod, the Abbots of Fountains and Jervaulx, Hamarton, Sir John Bulmer, young Lumley, and Nicholas Tempest were hanged at Tyburn; four who had been tried with them and condemned were pardoned. Lady- ↑ MS. State Paper Office, Domestic, vol. xii.
- ↑ MS. Cotton. Titus. B 1, 457.
- ↑ For instance, Sir Thomas Percy's eldest son inherited the earldom of Northumberland; unfortunately, also, his father's politics and his father's fate. He was that Earl of Northumberland who rose for Mary of Scotland against Elizabeth.
