import/englishhistory.net/tudor/exanne.html url indexed_doc HTMLPlugin 3121 englishhistory.net/tudor exanne.html exanne.html en windows_1252 Primary Sources: The execution of Anne Boleyn, 1536 HTML http://englishhistory.net/tudor/exanne.html http://englishhistory.net/tudor/exanne.html Tudor period|Others HASH01251438e98f926ef093edfa 1778053392 20260506 1778053524 20260506 HASH0125.dir boleynex.gif:image/gif: boleyn-sketch1.jpg:image/jpeg: <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="94%"> <tr> <td valign="bottom" colspan="3"> <p align="center">&nbsp;<br> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="_httpdocimg_/boleynex.gif" alt="Primary Sources: 1536: The execution of Anne Boleyn" width="372" height="167"><p align="center">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><p> <img border="0" src="_httpdocimg_/boleyn-sketch1.jpg" alt="sketch of Anne Boleyn by Hans Holbein the Younger" align="left" width="175" height="157"><font size=-1>This account of Anne Boleyn's speech at her execution was recorded in the <i>Annals of John Stow</i>.</font><p> <font size="-1">The execution took place on 19 May 1536 at 8 o'clock in the morning.&nbsp; It was the first public execution of an English queen.</font><p> <font size="-1">This account mentions the famous 'hangman of Calais' who was brought to London for the execution.</font></td> <td width="4%"></td> <td valign="top" width="48%"> <p> All these being on a scaffold made there for the execution, the said Queen Anne said as followeth: Masters, I here humbly submit me to the law, as the law hath judged me, and as for mine offences, God knoweth them, I remit them to God, beseeching him to have mercy on my soul; and I beseech Jesu save my Sovereign and master the King, the most goodliest, and gentlest Prince that is, and long to reign over you, which words she spake with a smiling countenance: which done, she kneeled down on both her knees, and said, To Jesu Christ I commend my soul and with that word suddenly the hangman of Calais smote off her head at one stroke with a sword: her body with the head was buried in the choir of the Chapel in the Tower.</p> <p align="center"> &nbsp;</p> <p align="center"> <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fmonarchs%2fboleyn.html"> <font size="2">to the Anne Boleyn website</font></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fprimary.html"> <font size="2">to Primary Sources</font></a></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <!-- text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE --><!-- Counter/Statistics data collection code --><script language="JavaScript" src="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fhostingprod.com%2fjs%5fsource%2fgeov2.js"></script><script language="javascript">geovisit();</script><noscript><img src="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;el=direct&amp;href=http://visit.webhosting.yahoo.com/visit.gif?us1108082600" alt="setstats" border="0" width="1" height="1"></noscript> <IMG SRC="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;el=direct&amp;href=http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=76001524&t=1108082600" ALT=1 WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1>