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 compassion for their youth, beauty, innocence, and noble birth, gave orders that she should be beheaded within the Tower, and her husband on Tower-Hill. Lord Guilford earnestly desired the Officers, that he might take his last farewell of her, which they readily consented to; but Lady Jane declined the interview, as she thought the tenderness of their parting would overcome the fortitude of both, and would too much unbend their minds from that constancy which their approaching end required of them.—She expressed great tenderness when she saw her husband led out to execution; but she soon recovered herself, and bade him farewell from a window: She also saw his headless body carried back in a cart.— About an hour after the death of her husband, she was led out by the Lieutenant to a scaffold that was erected upon the green, opposite the White Tower, attended by Dr Feckenham, but she took little notice of his discourses. After having repeated the 51st Psalm, she laid her neck on the block, and said “L, into thy hands I commend my spirit!” And immediately at one stroke the executioner severed her head from her body.

Thus fell, in the bloom of youth, this amiable, accomplished and noble Lady.