This is another contemporary account of Queen Anne's
execution at Tower Green; it is recorded in the Annals of John Stow.
All these being on a scaffold made there for the execution, the said
Queen Anne said as followeth: Masters, I here humbly submit me to the law,
as the law hath judged me, and as for mine offences....God knoweth them,
I remit them to God, beseeching him to have mercy on my soul; and I beseech
Jesu save my Sovereign and master the King, the most goodliest, and gentlest
Prince that is, and long to reign over you, which words she spake with
a smiling countenance: which done, she kneeled down on both her knees,
and said, To Jesu Christ I commend my soul and with that word suddenly
the hangman of Calais smote off her head at one stroke with a sword: her
body with the head was buried in the choir of the Chapel in the Tower.
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