{"id":111,"date":"2015-02-08T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=111"},"modified":"2022-01-17T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T17:34:27","slug":"anne-boleyn-speech-at-her-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/tudor\/anne-boleyn-speech-at-her-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Boleyn&#8217;s Last Words &#8211; Speech At Her Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/images\/tudor\/boleyn-sketch1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"157\" \/><br \/>\nThis account of <a href=\"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/tudor\/monarchs\/anne-boleyn\/\">Anne Boleyn<\/a>&#8216;s final speech at her execution was made by the Tudor chronicler Edward Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The execution took place on 19 May 1536 at 8 o&#8217;clock in the morning. It was the first public execution of an English queen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After being blindfolded and kneeling at the block, she repeated several times:<br \/>\n&#8216;To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesu receive my soul.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This account of Anne Boleyn&#8216;s final speech at her execution was made by the Tudor chronicler Edward Hall. The execution took place on 19 May 1536 at 8 o&#8217;clock in the morning. It was the first public execution of an English queen. &#8216;Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}