Want to tell us to write facts on a topic? We’re always looking for your input! Please reach out to us to let us know what you’re interested in reading. Want to know more about history’s most unhinged monarchs? Check out our facts about Ruthless Queens. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.”Īs she awaited the executioner’s blade, kneeling on the block, she repeated the phrase, “To Jesus Christ, I commend my soul Lord Jesu receive my soul.” And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. 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.

“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.

Despite the limited evidence against her, she said: She went to the block with surprisingly high spirits, cracking jokes about the length of her neck and referring to herself as “Lady Anne Lack-Head.” When Anne was brought to the scaffold to die, she begged leave to address the crown and was granted the right to do so. Anne Boleyn was beheaded on May 19, 1536.

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