This supplication, forcible as it was, had no effect, and on Tuesday the 3rd of November, the sentence was rigorously executed. The speech of Stubbes upon the Scaffold, (with other attendant circumstances,) is thus given in the " Nuga Antiquæ."

"What a grieffe it is to the bodie to lose one of his members you all knowe. I ame come hither to receive my punishment, according to the lawe. I ame sorie for the losse of my haund, and more sorie to lose it by judgement; but most of all with her Majestie's indignation and evell opinion, whome I have soe highlie displeased. Before I was condempned, I might speak for my innocencie; but nowe my mouth is stopped by judgment, to the which I submitte myselffe, and ame contente patientlie to endure whatsoever it pleaseth God of his secrett providence, to laie upon me, and take it justlie deserved for my sinnes; and I pray God it maie be an example to youe all, that it beinge so daungerous to offend the lawes, without an evell meaninge, as breedeth the losse of a haund, youe maie use your haunds holylye, and praie to God for the longe preservation of her Majestie over youe, whome God hath used as an instrument for a longe peace and many blessings over us; and speciallie for his Gospell, whearby shee hathe made a waie for us to rest and quietnes of our consciences. For the French I force not; but my greatest grieffe is, in soe many weekes and daies imprisonment, her Majestie hath not once thought me worthie of her mercie, which she hath often times extended to divers persons in greater offences. For my haund, I esteem it not soe mutch, for I think I colde have saved it, and might do yet; but I will not have a guiltlesse harte, and an infamous haund. I praie youe all to praie with me, that God will strengthen me to endure and abide the paine which I ame to suffre, and graunt

me this grace, that the losse of my haund, do not withdrawe any part of my deutie and affection toward her Majestie, and because, when soe many veines of blonde are opened, it is uncertain howe they maie be stayed, and what wil be the event theirof."-Then, “kneeling on his knees,” he said,—“I beseche yone all to praye for me, that it wolde please God to forgive me my sinnes; and I crave pardon of all the worlde, and freelie forgive overie one that hathe offended me; and soe with mercie to deale with me, that whether I live or die, I may live or die his servaunt. My maisters, if there be any among youe that doe love me, if your love be not in God and her Majestie, I utterlie denie your love."-The haund redie on the block to be stricken off, he said often to the people, “Praye for me, nowe my calamitie is at hande,” and soe, with these wordes, it was smitten of, whereat he sownded."

Camden, who was a spectator of this scene, informs us of some additional facts in his History of Elizabeth's Reign. "I remember," he states, "being present, that Stubbs, after his right hand was cut off, pulled off his hat with his left, and said with a loud voice, God save the Queen. But the multitude standing about was deeply silent; either out of an horrour at this new and unwonted kind of punishment, or else out of commiseration towards the man, as being of an honest and unblameable repute; or else out of hatred of the marriage, which most men presaged would be the overthrow of religion." The words and conduct of Page, upon the Scaffold, were as follow:

“I ame come hither to receive the lawe according to my judgment, and thanke God of all; and of this I take

God to witnes, that knoweth the hartes of all men, that, as I ame scrie I have offended her Majestie, so did I never mene harme to her Highness' person, crowne, or dignitie; but have bene as trewe a subject as any was in Englande, to my abilitie, except none:" (and holdinge up his right haund, he said) "This haund did I put to the ploughe, and got my living by it many yeres. If it wolde have pleased her Highness to have pardoned it, and to have taken my lefte haund, or my life, shee had delte more favourablie with me, for nowe I have no meanes to live; but God, which is the father of us all, will provide for me. I beseche youe all to praie for me, that I maie take this punishment patientlie." And soe he layd his haund upon the block, and prayed the executioner quicklie to dispatch hime; and so at ij blowes his haund was smitten off. So, lifting up the stompe, he said to the people "I have lefte there a trewe Englyshman's haund." And so went from the scaffolde very stoutlie, and with great couradge."

The instruments employed in these cruel inflictions, were a butcher's cleaver and a mallet. Stubbes was regarded to be a Puritan: his sister was married to Thomas Cartwright, who is styled the "father of the Puritans." Some curious particulars concerning the latter, may be seen in Pavle's "Life of Archbishop Whitgift," who, after much forbearance, found it necessary, when Vice Chancellor of Cambridge, to expel Cartwright both from his College, and from the Lady Margaret's Professorship.

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