The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat
p. 54
‘On sondaie the xjth daie of February the bushope of Winchester preached in the chappell before the quene…he axed a boone of the quenes highness that like as she had before tyme extended hir mercy, partyculerly and privatlie, so thorough her lenity and gentylnes moche conspyracye and open rebellion was growen…that she wolde nowe be mercyfull to the body of the commonwealth, and conservation therof, which coulde not be unless the rotten and hurtfull members therof were cut off and consumed. And thus he ended soone after; whereby all the audience dyd gather ther should shortly follwe sharpe and cruell execution.’
