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| 31 | <font size="2">Th</font><font size="-1">e account at right was written by
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| 32 | the Tudor chronicler Edward Hall.</font><p>
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| 33 | <font size="-1">The summer of 1535 was one of the bloodiest of King Henry
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| 34 | VIII's reign. The deaths of John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, and Sir
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| 35 | Thomas More shocked and appalled Europe. Henry's reputation never
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| 36 | recovered and was further blemished when he later executed two wives.</font><p>
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| 39 | <td valign="top" width="48%">This year on 11 June were arraigned in the king's bench at
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| 40 | Westminster three monks of the Charterhouse of London, and there condemned
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| 41 | of high treason against the king, and sentenced to be drawn, hanged, disemboweled,
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| 42 | beheaded and quartered. One of them was called Francis Nitigate,
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| 43 | another Master Exmew, storekeeper of the same place, and the third was
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| 44 | called Master Middlemore, vicar of the same place. This year also
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| 45 | on 17 June was arraigned at Westminster in the king's bench John Fisher,
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| 46 | bishop of Rochester, for treason against the king, and he was condemned
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| 47 | there by a jury of knights and esquires (the lord chancellor sitting as
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| 48 | high judge), who passed this sentence on him - that the said John Fisher
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| 49 | should go from thence to the place where he came from, which was the Tower
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| 50 | of London, and from thence to be drawn through the City of London to Tyburn,
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| 51 | there to be hanged, cur down alive, his bowels taken out of his body and
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| 52 | burnt before him, his head cut off, and his body be divided into four parts
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| 53 | and his head and body be set in such places as the king should assign.
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| 54 | The effect of the treason was denying the king to be Supreme Head of the
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| 55 | Church of England, according to a statute, The Act of Supremacy, made in
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| 56 | the last session of Parliament.
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| 57 | <p>On 19 June, a Saturday, the three monks of the Charterhouse, aforementioned,
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| 58 | were drawn from the Tower to Tyburn, and there executed according to their
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| 59 | sentence, and their heads and bodies hung at different gates around the
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| 60 | city.
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| 61 | <p>Also on 22 June, Tuesday, John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, was beheaded
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| 62 | at Tower Hill, and the rest of his execution pardoned. His body was
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| 63 | buried in Barking churchyard, next to the Tower of London, and his head
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| 64 | was set on London Bridge.
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| 65 | <p>This year also on 1 July, being Thursday, Sir Thomas More, sometime
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| 66 | chancellor of England, was arraigned at Westminster for high treason and
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| 67 | there condemned, and the Tuesday after, being 6 July, he was beheaded at
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| 68 | Tower Hill and his body was buried within the chapel in the Tower of London,
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| 69 | and his head was set on London Bridge. The effect of his death was
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| 70 | for the same cause that the bishop of Rochester died for.
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