Can Someone elaborate on Thomas Cromwells execution?
He was privately executed at the Tower on July 28, 1540, the same day the king went on to marry Catherine Howard. After his execution, Cromwell’s head was boiled and then set upon a spike on London Bridge, facing away from the City of London. Edward Hall, a contemporary chronicler, records that Cromwell made a speech on the scaffold, professing to die, “in the traditional faith” and then “so paciently suffered the stroke of the axe, by a ragged Boocherly miser whiche very ungoodly perfourmed the Office”.
