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This morning she sent for me, that I might be with her at such time as she
received the good Lord, to the intent I should hear her speak as touching her
innocency alway to be clear. And in the writing of this she sent for me, and at
my coming she said, "Mr. Kingston, I hear I shall not die afore noon, and I am
very sorry therefore, for I thought to be dead by this time and past my pain ".
I told her it should be no pain, it was so little. And then she said, "I heard
say the executioner was very good, and I have a little neck", and then put her
hands about it, laughing heartily. I have seen many men and also women executed,
and that they have been in great sorrow, and to my knowledge this lady has much
joy in death. Sir, her almoner is continually with her, and had been since two
o'clock after midnight.
Source: A letter from Sir W. Kingston, Constable of the Tower, to Thomas
Cromwell, May 19th, 1536. (spelling modernized)
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