councell, being called before them for the same matter, -it should be foode for fishes; which she buried where she thought fittest." The Chancellor's pious daughter is said to have preserved this relic in a leaden case, and to have ordered its interment with her own body, in the Roper vault, under a chapel adjoining St. Dunstan's, Canterbury, where the head, it is stated, was seen in the year 1715, and again subsequently.

Aubrey, however, states that the body of More was buried in St. Luke's Church, Chelsea; "after he was beheaded, his trunke was interred in Chelsey Church, near the middle of the south wall, where was some slight monument erected, which being worn by time, about 1644, Sir [John?] Lawrence, of Chelsey, (no kinne to him) at his own proper costs and charges, erected to his memorie a handsome inscription of marble."-Aubrey's Lives. The monument was again restored, in 1833, by subscription. It was originally erected, in 1532, by More himself, and the epitaph (in Latin) was written by him. Over the tombs are the crest of Sir Thomas More; namely, a Moor's head, and the arms of himself and his two wives.

EXECUTION OF LADY JANE GREY.

THE Tower is a remarkable monument of the great, yet not to its advantage; "for the images of the children of Edward IV., of Anne Boleyn, and Jane Grey, and of the many innocent victims murdered in times of despotism and tyranny, pass like dark phantoms before the mind."

The place of execution within the Tower, on the Green, was reserved for putting to death privately; and the precise spot whereon the scaffold was erected, is nearly opposite the door of the Chapel of St. Peter, and is marked by a large oval of dark flints. Hereon many of the wisest, the noblest, the best, and the fairest heads of English men and English women of times long passed away, fell from such a block and beneath the stroke of such an axe, as may now be seen in the armouries. One of the most touching of these sad scenes was the heroic end of the accomplished and illustrious Lady Jane Grey. The preparations for her execution are thus detailed in "The Chronicle of Queen Jane":

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'By this tyme was ther a scaffolde made upon the grene over agaynst the White Tower, for the saide lady Jane to die upon. Who with hir husband was appoynted to have been put to death the fryday before, but was staied tyll then, for what cause is not knowen, unlesse yt were because hir father was not then come into the Tower. The saide ladye being nothing at all abashed, neither with feare of her own deathe, which then approached, neither with the sight of the ded carcase of hir husbande, when he was brought in to the chappell, came fourthe, the levetenant leding hir, in the same gown wherin she was arrayned, hir countenance nothing abashed, neither hir eyes enything moysted with teares, although her ij gentylwomen, mistress Elizabeth Tylney and mistress Eleyn, wonderfully wept, with her boke in her hand, wheron she praied all the way till she cam to the saide scaffolde, wheron when she was mounted, &c."

Here the diarist breaks off. The following account of her Last Moments is from the pamphlet entitled "The Ende of the Lady Jane Dudley."

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First, when she mounted upon the scaffolde, she sayd to the people standing thereabout: Good people, I am come hether to die, and by a lawe I am condemned to the same. The facte, in dede, against the quenes highnesse was unlawfull, and the consenting thereunto by me but touching the procurement and desyre therof by me or on my halfe, I doo wash my handes therof in innocencie, before God, and the face of you, good Christian people, this day,' and therewith she wrong her handes, in which she had hir booke. Then she sayd, 'I pray you all, good Christian people, to beare me witness that I dye a true Christian woman, and that I looke to be saved by none other meane but only by the mercy of God in the merites of the blood of his only sonne Jesus Christ and I confesse, when I dyd know the word of God I neglected the same, loved my selfe and the world, and therefore this plague or punyshment is happely and worthely happened unto me for my sins; and yet I thank God of his goodnesse that he hath thus geven me a tyme and respet to repent.

"And now, good people, while I am alyve, I pray you to assyst me with your prayers.' And then, knelyng downe, she turned to Fecknam, saying, 'Shall I say this psalme?' And he said 'Yea.' Then she said the psalme of Miserere mei Deus in English, in most devout manner, to the end. Then she stode up, and gave her maiden mistris Tilney her gloves and handkercher, and her book to maister Bruges, the lyvetenantes brother; forthwith she untyed her gown. The hangman went to her to help her of therewith; then she desyred him

to let her alone, turning towardes her two gentlewomen, who helped her off therwith, and also with her frose paast and neckercher, geving to her a fayre handkercher to knytte about her eyes. Then the hangman kneeled downe, and asked her forgevenesse, whome she forgave most willingly. Then he willed her to stand upon the strawe: which doing, she sawe the block. Then she sayd, I pray you dispatch me quickly.' Then she kneeled down, saying, Wil you take it of before I lay me downe?' and the hangman answered her, 'No, Madame.' She tyed the kercher about her eyes; then feeling for the blocke, saide, What shall I do? Where is it?' One of the standers-by guyding her therunto, she layde her heade down upon the block, and stretched forth her body and said: 'Lorde, into thy hands I commende my spirite!' And so she ended."

WHERE WAS ANNE BOLEYN BURIED?

THERE is a tradition at Salle, in Norfolk, that the remains of Anne Boleyn were removed from the Tower, and interred at midnight, with the rites of Christian burial, in Salle church; and that a plain, black stone without any inscription is supposed to indicate the place where she was buried. In Blomefield's Norfolk, no allusion is made to any such tradition, in the accounts of the Boleyn family, and their monuments. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in his History of King Henry VIII., does not state how or where she was buried. Holinshed, Stow, and Speed say, that her body, with her head, was buried in the choir of the

chapel in the Tower; and Sandford, that she was buried in the Chapel of St. Peter, in the Tower. Burnet, who is followed by Henry, Hume, and Lingard, says that her body was thrown into a common chest of elm-tree that was made to put arrows in, and was buried in the chapel within the Tower, before twelve o'clock. Sharon Turner quotes the following passage from Crispin's account of Anne Boleyn's execution, written fourteen days after her death, viz.: "Her ladies immediately took up her head and the body. They seemed to be without souls, they were so languid and extremely weak; but fearing that their mistress might be handled unworthily by inhuman men, they forced themselves to do this duty; and though almost dead, at last carried off her dead body wrapt in a white covering." A letter in the Gentleman's Magazine, October 1815, states: "The headless trunk of the departed Queen was said to be deposited in an arrow-chest, and buried in the Tower Chapel, before the High Altar. Where that stood, the most sagacious antiquary, after a lapse of less than 300 years, cannot now determine; nor is the circumstance, though related by eminent writers, clearly ascertained. In a cellar, the body of a person of short stature, without a head, not many years since was found, and supposed to be the reliques of poor Anne; but soon after reinterred in the same place, and covered up."

The stone in Salle church was some time since. raised, but no remains were to be found underneath it. Miss Strickland states that a similar tradition is assigned to a black stone in the church at Thornden-onthe-Hill: but Morant, in his History of Essex, does not notice it.