“The Friday following, being the 19th day of May, 1536, and the 28th year of King Henry the VIII, at eight of the clock in the morning, Anne Boleyn, Queen, was brought to execution on the green within the Tower of London, by the great White Tower; the Lord Chancellor of England, the Duke of Richmond, Duke of Suffolk, with the most of the King’s Council, as earls, lords, and nobles of this realm, being present at the same; also the Major of London, with the Aldermen and Sheriffs, and certain of the best crafts of London, being there present also. On a scaffold made there for the said execution the said Queen Anne said thus: ‘Masters, I here humbly submit me to the law as the law has judged me, and as for mine offences, I here accuse no man, God knows them; I remit them to God, beseeching him to have mercy on my soul, and I beseech Jesus save my sovereign and master the King, the most godly, noble, and gentle Prince that is, and long to reign over you’, which words were spoken with a goodly smiling countenance; and this done, she kneeled down on her knees and said: ‘To Jesus Christ I commend my soul’, and suddenly the hangman smote of her head at a stroke with a sword; her body with the head was buried in the Chapel within the Tower of London, in the quire there, the same day at afternoon, when she had reigned as Queen three years, lacking 14 days, from her coronation to her death.”
A chronicle of England during the reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559 Volume 1, page 41 by Charles Wriothesley
