As her frail form was seen moving with a slow but undis-
mayed step to the scaffold, the sight at once chilled with awe,
and moved with compassion, the hearts of the assembled
multitude. At the place of doom she behaved with calm,
unshrinking courage. She made no attempt to speak, but
she delivered to the sheriff a paper, which may be considered
as her dying speech; and a little after, her head was severed
from her body by the fatal axe. Her remains were delivered
to her relations, by whom, rolled in their bloody shroud,
they were deposited with becoming respect and solemnity in
Ellingham Churchyard, near Bingwood, in Hants.^

The paper which she delivered to the sheriff is as follows :
— "Gentlemen, friends, and neighbours, it may be expected
that I should say something at my death, and in OTder there-
unto I shall acquaint you, that my birth and education were
both near this place, and that my parents instructed me in
the fear of God, and I now die of the Reformed Protestant
religion; that if ever Popery should return into this nation
it would be a very great and severe judgment; that I die in
expectation of the pardon of all my sins, and of acceptance
with God the Father, by the imputed righteousness of Jesus
Christ, he being the end of the law for righteousness to every
one that believes. I thank God, through Jesus Christ, that
I do depart under the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh
1 Toolmin'fl ffist, of Taunton, Savage's edit. p. 503.
