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31 | <img border="0" src="monarchs/boleyn-sketch1.jpg" alt="sketch of Anne Boleyn by Hans Holbein the Younger" align="left" width="175" height="157"><font size=-1>This
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32 | account of Anne Boleyn's speech at her execution was recorded in the <i>Annals of John Stow</i>.</font><p>
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33 | <font size="-1">The execution took place on 19 May 1536 at 8 o'clock in the
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34 | morning. It was the first public execution of an English queen.</font><p>
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35 | <font size="-1">This account mentions the famous 'hangman of Calais' who was
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36 | brought to London for the execution.</font></td>
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41 | All these being on a scaffold made there for the execution, the said
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42 | Queen Anne said as followeth: Masters, I here humbly submit me to the law,
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43 | as the law hath judged me, and as for mine offences, God knoweth them,
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44 | I remit them to God, beseeching him to have mercy on my soul; and I beseech
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45 | Jesu save my Sovereign and master the King, the most goodliest, and gentlest
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46 | Prince that is, and long to reign over you, which words she spake with
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47 | a smiling countenance: which done, she kneeled down on both her knees,
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48 | and said, To Jesu Christ I commend my soul and with that word suddenly
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49 | the hangman of Calais smote off her head at one stroke with a sword: her
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50 | body with the head was buried in the choir of the Chapel in the Tower.</p>
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