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| 30 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size=-1>This account
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| 31 | of Somerset's execution was made by Henry Machyn, a London undertaker.</font><p>
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| 32 | <font size="-1">Somerset was the brother of Henry VIII's third wife Jane
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| 33 | Seymour and thus uncle to King Edward VI. He was a popular leader
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| 34 | amongst the common people. He attempted to reform agricultural
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| 35 | policies and led a successful army against the Scots. But the
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| 36 | treachery of his younger brother (whom he was forced to execute) and the
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| 37 | ambitions of other noblemen (most notably the earl of Warwick) doomed him.</font><br>
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| 43 | <p align="left">On 22 January, soon after 8 o'clock in the morning, the duke of Somerset
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| 44 | was beheaded on Tower Hill. There was as great a company as has been
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| 45 | seen... the king's guard being there with their halberds and a thousand
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| 46 | more with halberds of the privilege of the Tower, Ratcliffe, Limehouse,
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| 47 | Whitechapel, St Katherine's and Stratford Bow, as well as Hoxton and Shoreditch;
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| 48 | and the two sheriffs being present there, seeing the execution of my lord,
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| 49 | and his head being cut off, and shortly after his body was put into a coffin
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| 50 | and carried into the Tower, and there buried in the church, on the northside
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| 51 | of the choir of St Peter's, and I beseech God to have mercy on his soul,
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| 52 | amen! And there was a sudden rumbling a little before he died, as
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| 53 | if it had been guns shooting and great horses coming, so that a thousand
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| 54 | fell to the ground for fear, for they who were at one side thought no other
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| 55 | but that one was killing another, so that they fell down to the ground,
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| 56 | one upon another with their halberds, some fell into the ditch of the Tower
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| 57 | and other places, and a hundred into the Tower ditch, and some ran away
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| 58 | for fear.
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