CHAP. XLII.
HER! EXECUT770N.
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When she was taken from prison to be beheaded,
she spoke kindly and gently to everybody near her.
As Sir John Gage, the keeper of the Tower, led her
from her room to the scaffold, he asked her for a
keepsake, and she gave him a little book, in which
she had written three sentences, one in Greek, one
in Latin, and one in English.
She spoke to the officers and servants before she
was beheaded, saying, that she had never intended to,
do wrong, that she only obeyed her parents in being
queen, and that she trusted to be forgiven.
Her maidens then took off some part of her dress:
she knelt down and laid her head upon the block,
and her beautiful head was cut off before she was
seventeen years old.
The people now were sorry they had allowed Mary
to be queen, for they thought that if she could order
these two good and innocent young people to be put
to death, she would not spare anybody whom she
might happen to hate. And so it proved, as you
will read in the next chapter.
CHAPTER XLIII.
MARY.-1553 to 1558.
How Sir Thomas Wyat rebelled against Queen Mary, but -was
overcome, and he and many others were put to death; how she
offended the people by marrying the King of Spain; and how
a great many people were burnt for being Protestants.
"MJARY,
the daughter of Henry VIII., and of
Catherine of Arragon, his first wife, was so
cruel that she is always called BLOODY MARY.
She was at Hunsdon when her brother died; but
instead of going directly to London to be made