View source for EXECUTIONS during Henry's reign as shown on The Tudors

<div class="WPC-editableContent"><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="750">  <tr> <td bgcolor="#2d1140" class="WPC-edit-custom-bgColor" width="100%"> <div align="center"> <br/>[[File:XmWVaBFOfJ4Or7-hpuCr0A29385.jpeg|425px|Executioner]]</div> <div align="center"> <font face="Times" size="6">Executions during [[King Henry VIII]]'s reign<br/>as shown on<i> The Tudors</i></font><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><br/>click highlighted links to learn more about each character<br/>[[File:YOydCryrQ-VlF6P1au406Q286205.jpeg|331px|executions]]</font><br/><div align="center"> <i>Want to add to this page? </i></div> <div align="center"> <b>Click EasyEdit to update this page! </b></div> <div align="center"> <font color="#ffffff" size="2">(Don't see the <i>EasyEdit </i>button above?</font></div><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><a href="/#signin" target="_self"><font color="#84d0dd">Sign in</font></a> or <a href="/accountnew" target="_self"><font color="#84d0dd">Sign up</font></a></font><font color="#ffffff" size="2">.</font> </div></td></tr> <tr> <td class="" width="100%"> <div align="center"> <div align="left"> <font size="3">Charges which resulted in a death sentence were usually <font color="#ffa500"><b>heresy or treason</b></font> during this period of history.</font><br/><br/><font size="3"><a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_heresy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Heresy">Heresy</a> being a deviation from the orthodox catholic religion and its doctrines which had been established for many years. </font><br/><br/><font size="3"><a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Treason">Treason</a> being an act of disloyality to the King such as plotting his death or committing adultery with his wife.</font> <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_Act_1351" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="The Treason Act of 1351">The Treason Act of 1351</a>says that a person was guilty of <b>high treason</b> under the Act if they:   <ul> <li>  "compassed or imagined" (i.e. planned) the death of the King, his wife or his eldest son and heir;   </li><li>  violated the King's companion, the King's eldest daughter if she was unmarried or the wife of the King's eldest son and heir;   </li><li>  levied war against the King in his Realm or adhered to the King's enemies in his Realm, giving them aid and comfort in his Realm or elsewhere</li></ul></div></div></td></tr> <tr> <td class="" width="100%"> <b>For a list of the punishments for all crimes see : [[Tudor Historical Trivia|Tudors Historical Trivia page]]</b></td></tr> <tr> <td class="" width="100%"> <div align="center"> <embed allowfullscreen="true" height="350" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/youtubevideo/dbaac58308863e232627d3ae6956b091aa506a8a" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" wmode="transparent"/></div></td></tr><tr><td class="" width="100%"><font size="2"><font color="#ffa500">For the production notes of Season 4, the Director Ciaran Donnelly was asked -  The extended  narrative of The Tudors moves in cycles: Henry has a  succession of  enemies, advisors, wives and executions. Is repetition an  issue over  such a long period?</font><br/><br/> Yes it is. I’ve done quite a number of  executions over the course of  the past four seasons and each of them  has its own individual visual  style; otherwise the audience is simply  going to think, ‘oh well here’s  another execution’ without seeing the  particular meaning of each one.  So for instance the execution of Thomas  More ([[Jeremy Northam]])   I was very much trying to get the terror and loneliness of what it   might feel like to be up there on that platform before some man is about   to cut your head off. At that time there was a lot of awful news  coming  out of Iraq about beheadings and I suppose that influenced the  very in  which I thought of the scene from the point of view of the  person about  to be executed. So in that scene we shot it from the  platform looking  down at the crowd. In this season we have the  execution of [[Katherine Howard]]   which I took from a very different point of view. My interpretation of   the scene and the character is that she has been used and in fact  lusted  after by the men of Henry’s court. She’s a very young girl who  has been  offered to the King as a kind of plaything. </font><font size="2">So I see her as a lost innocent in a very masculine and cruel world. Normally we stage our executions within the walls of the [[Tower of London]]    but in her case we’ve moved it to a town square where there will be a    much bigger and more varied crowd who kind of stand in for the   audience.  I want to show a sense of collective bewilderment and even   horror that  such a young girl should be executed by the King at his   whim.</font><br/><font size="2">So,  this execution has a very different   feel: the shots are quite slow, the  editing has its own pace, and the   crowd is totally silent. Its also  staged in such a way that she is   executed after her lady in waiting  which only serves to underline her   own terror as she approaches the  bloody block. </font><br/><br/><font size="2">By   way of contrast, the  executions of her former lovers Dereham and   Culpepper are rowdy, riotous  affairs - like some kind of Saturday   afternoon football match,  reflecting the fact that no one felt any   sympathy at all for them. The  camerawork in those is all hand held and   shot right down amongst the  crowd so we feel what it might have been   like to go out and ‘enjoy’ an  execution - shouting, throwing vegetables   and all the rest - in Tudor  times. it’s a total circus</font></td></tr></table><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="750">  <tr> <td bgcolor="#2d1140" class="WPC-edit-custom-bgColor" width="100%"> <div align="center"> <font face="Times" size="6">Season 1</font></div></td></tr></table><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="750">  <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>[[File:0yeOntrl9CIPDLCcqTVnNQ31066.jpeg|129px|Steven Waddington as Edward Stafford]]<br/><font size="3">Character:<br/></font></b><font size="3">[[Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham]]<b><br/><br/>Executed for:<br/></b>Treason </font><br/><font size="2">He was accused of listening to prophecies of the King's death and his own succession to the throne and for expressing an intention to kill the King.</font><font size="3"> <font size="2">These are generally accepted to be trumped up charges.<br/></font></font><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#ffa500" size="2">*There is no historical evidence that Buckingham's hands had to be held out or that he did not die with dignity as the series depicts.</font></font><br/><b><br/>Method of Execution:<br/></b>Beheaded<b><br/></b><font size="2">at Tower Hill on 17th May 1521 and was posthumously attainted in July 1523.</font></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> [[File:I5NCyE3hq tBWo38 Cc99w52094.jpeg|453px|Edward Stafford- Beheading]]<br/>[[File:NdVtTwxenvXSywmVWoJRTA80822.jpeg|453px|Edward Stafford- Beheading]]</td></tr> <tr> <td class="" width="26%"> <div align="center"> [[File:YCSjdQ2dkg6OURiEXkGJNg81987.jpeg|133px|Simon Fish]]<br/><font size="3"><b>Character:</b> <br/>Simon Fish<br/><br/><b>Executed for :</b><br/>Heresy</font><br/><br/><b>Method of Execution:</b><br/>Burning<br/><br/><font color="#ffffff" size="2">Historically Fish was arrested on charges of heresy but died in 1531 of bubonic plague in prison before his trial. In November of 1531 a book peddler was burned named Richard Bayfield, whose death was similar to the fictional one of Fish portrayed in <b>The Tudors </b>(he prayed in English while burning). The series was correct to state that </font>[[Sir Thomas More|Thomas More]]<font color="#ffffff" size="2"> had *6 people burned (but Fish was not one of them) for heresy during his Chancellorship and also had 40 others imprisoned.</font> <br/><br/><font color="#ffffff" size="2">*Along with Bayfield, there was also Thomas Hitten (1530), Thomas Bilney (1531), John Frith, John Tewkesbury, John Bainham &amp; William Tyndale . [source: Moynahan, <i>God's Bestseller]</i></font></div></td> <td class="" width="74%"> <div align="center"> [[File:ARQDdNtqN dYZ15TIJSdVQ169385.jpeg|450px|Simon Fish & Thomas More]]</div> <div align="center"> [[File:EbAv5KnIlvKRZLIf66p4pA163737.jpeg|450px|Simon Fish]]<br/>[[File:EMTAuZDofpAthusYmC9Uuw160697.jpeg|442px|Thomas More watches Fish burn]]</div></td></tr></table><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="750">  <tr> <td bgcolor="#2d1140" class="WPC-edit-custom-bgColor" width="100%"> <div align="center"> <font face="Times" size="6">Season 2</font></div></td></tr></table><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="750">  <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> [[File:NLx5zX033UDeLchGYtOf3w22778.jpeg|133px|Cook]]<br/><b>Character:<br/></b>Fisher &amp; More's Cook<b><br/><br/>Executed for:<br/></b>Poisoning<b><br/><br/>Method of Execution:</b><br/>Boiled in water until dead<br/><br/>In execution by boiling, the condemned is stripped naked and either  placed in a vat of boiling liquid, or in a vat of cold liquid which was  then heated to boiling.  The liquid could be oil, acid, tar, water, or  molten lead.  During the reign of [[King Henry VIII]] it was a punishment  especially reserved for poisoners. <font size="2"><br/>"The preamble of the statute of Henry VIII (which made poisoning treason)  in 1531 recites that one <b>Richard Roose</b> (or Coke), a cook, by putting  poison in some food intended for the household of the bishop of  Rochester and for the poor of the parish of Lambeth, killed a man and  woman. He was found guilty of treason and sentenced to be boiled to  death without benefit of clergy. He was publicly boiled at Smithfield." [Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911]</font><br/><br/><font size="2"><font><font><font>The Act was repealed in the year 1547. </font></font></font><br/></font><br/><font size="2">"He was </font><font color="#ffffff"><font size="2">"</font></font><font size="2">boiled in a cauldron, locked in a chain and pulled up and down with a gibbet at divers times till he was dead.</font><font color="#ffffff"><font size="2">" - source <i>Crime and Punishment in England</i> by John Briggs<br/></font></font></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> <b>[[File:82gAQQJwkJQh3-izKi4tiA94548.jpeg|450px|Cook -Execution]]<br/>[[File:X3FBZ-0YOdpa6p7WXNDEXQ92072.jpeg|446px|Cook -Execution]]<br/></b> <div align="center"> <font color="#90d6d6">[[File:Y3e6KgErswVBD75aXThbNA17811.jpeg|444px|Sir Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire - The Tudors Wiki]]</font></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> <font size="2"><font color="#90d6d6">[[Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex|Thomas Cromwell]]</font>, [[Sir Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire|Thomas Boleyn]] &amp; his son <font color="#90d6d6">[[George Boleyn]]</font> watch as the cook charged with poisoning the bishops who are in opposition to the King's great matter is executed by being boiled alive. In the series they are responsible for paying the man to do it.<br/></font></div></td></tr> <tr> <td class="" width="26%"> <div align="center"> <b>[[File:DayM NGg5A2T1oYvZ9Orog16776.jpeg|134px|Bishop John Fisher as played by Bosco Hogan]]</b></div> <div align="center"> <font size="3"><b>Character:</b><br/>[[Bishop John Fisher]]<br/></font><br/><b><font size="3">Executed for:</font></b><font size="3"><br/></font> <div align="center"> <font size="3">Treason </font><br/><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><font color="#ffffff">The charge was that he did "openly declare in English that the king, our sovereign lord, is not supreme head on earth of the Church of England" by not taking the Oath of Supremacy</font></font></font>.<font size="2"><font face="Arial"><font color="#ffffff"> He was </font></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><font color="#ffffff">the <b><u>only</u></b> one of the English bishops that dared to resist the king's will and </font></font></font><font size="2">the only person to die for the Catholic faith while a member of the College of Cardinals. </font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><font color="#ffffff">He was Katherine of Aragon's confessor and a champion for her cause.<br/></font></font></font></div><br/><b>Method of Execution:</b><br/>Beheaded<br/>on Tower Hill, June 22, 1535</div></td> <td class="" width="74%"> <div align="center"> <b>[[File:IPpT9VUbo9fZBfRMbCrOfA67817.jpeg|447px|John Fisher - Beheading]]</b></div> <div align="center"> <b>[[File:E-aN67WgfdXdEzwID534nA56016.jpeg|450px|John Fisher - Beheading]]<br/>Last Words:<br/></b><font color="#ffffff"><font size="2">"Good people, I ask you to love the King and obey him for he is good by nature even if he is not right in his religious policies; that I am condemned to die for wishing to uphold the honor of God and the Holy See. Now good Christian people, I ask for your prayers. I am only flesh and fear death as much as any man. It's true that I long since made up my mind to die if need be for Christ and his church. Now that the moment is at hand, I need your help."<br/><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="275" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/youtubevideo/13ef9d548c2a1aec9b7bb39e55f884a1067558d2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="453" wmode="transparent"/><br/><br/></font></font></div></td></tr> <tr> <td class="" width="26%"> <div align="center"> [[File:Jxfwh32sAQia46TDkH8gyg21196.jpeg|141px|Jeremy Northam as Sir Thomas More]]</div> <div align="center"> <b>Character:</b><br/>[[Sir Thomas More|Thomas More]]<br/><br/><b><font size="3">Executed for:<br/></font></b><font size="3">Treason </font><br/><font size="2">He would not take the Oath recognizing Henry's position as Supreme Head of a new English church. It should be noted that More accepted Parliament's ability to decide the succession in favor of the king's children with </font><font color="#90d6d6" size="2">[[Anne Boleyn]]</font><font size="2">, for it was a<b> legal issue and Parliament was within its rights to decide it</b>. In More's opinion, neither a temporal ruler nor Parliament had the right to override the Holy See's authority. The Pope was the only validly appointed head of the Universal Church.</font><br/><br/><b>Method of Execution:</b><br/>Beheaded<br/>on Tower Hill, July 6, 1535</div></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> <b>[[File:MYqc3-9thwgDLylo4bnTOg49460.jpeg|453px|Thomas More - Execution]]<br/>[[File:CLFn4QMwIFhvfIE3P8aptA88568.jpeg|449px|Thomas More - Execution]]<br/><br/>Last Words:<br/></b><font face="Arial" size="3">"I die the King's good servant, but God's first.</font>"<br/><br/><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="344" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/youtubevideo/24dc4ec0b8e44e93e774c6d1628dbcdeeaeb4e5a" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" wmode="transparent"/></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>[[File:2n3OErCrA3K6yzlgK65L7A16459.jpeg|140px|Pedaric Delany as George Boleyn]]<br/>Character:<br/></b>[[George Boleyn]]<b><br/><br/>Executed for:<br/></b>Treason <br/><br/><font size="2">He was accused of having an incestuous relationship with his sister, the queen.</font><br/><b><br/>Method of Execution:<br/></b>Beheaded<b><br/></b></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> <b>[[File:BYAhIKos1KPBIOjnRd9asQ50412.jpeg|453px|George Boleyn - Execution]]<br/>[[File:DmjJYGXkMcD83wri1na1OQ56395.jpeg|453px|George Boleyn - Execution]]<br/>Last Words (in the series):<br/></b>"I say to you, trust in God and not in the vanities of this world, <br/>for if I had done so I would still be alive as you are now"<b><br/></b>[See his actual words here : [[George Boleyn - Historical Profile]]]<b><br/><br/></b><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="275" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/youtubevideo/0c9d8df5dc16c5d27ea87a95e27e6c92daa58e36" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="453" wmode="transparent"/><b><br/></b></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>[[File:OTO4YHTQ-oLJmwGm9T2JiA32754.jpeg|134px|Stephen Hogan as Henry Norris]]<br/>Character:<br/></b>[[Henry Norris]]<b><br/><br/>Executed for:<br/></b>Treason <b><br/></b><font face="Arial" size="2">Accused of adultery with the queen<b> which he denied saying : </b><b><i>“I would rather die a thousand deaths <br/>than be guilty of such a falsehood”</i></b></font><br/><b><br/>Method of Execution:<br/></b>Beheaded<b><br/></b></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> <b>[[File:J5wFNwEd2AfJ0sAcwOIwow52441.jpeg|453px|Henry Norris - Execution]]<br/>[[File:TAC6Od0quwhwHHK0y9dkDw49618.jpeg|453px|Henry Norris - Execution]]<br/></b></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>[[File:Ro4qmYfqVOOz5LSI1ylABA17893.jpeg|143px|Jame Gilbert as William Brereton]]<br/>Character:<br/></b>[[William Brereton]]<b><br/><br/>Executed for:<br/></b>Treason<br/><br/><font size="2">Accused of adultery with the queen<b>.</b> In the series he is depicted as a catholic zealot who is prepared to martyr himself and confessed to the adultery. In history, he did not confess and is considered to be entirely innocent of the charges. Mere collateral damage when Cromwell decided to add his name to the list of alleged lovers as he was an one of the most wealthy landowners. </font><br/><b><br/>Method of Execution:<br/></b>Beheaded<b><br/></b></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> <b>[[File:M7sAEvrSixPHDEC3KhjOfw33108.jpeg|453px|William Brereton - Execution]]<br/>[[File:XYR0Tazbis1SSYqbFUgnJg46980.jpeg|453px|William Brereton - Execution]]<br/><br/>Last words (historically) : </b><font face="Arial" size="3"><br/></font>"<font face="Arial" size="3">The cause whereof I die, judge not. <br/>But if you judge, judge the best.</font>" </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>[[File:O66UZ1 Fxoh96u dOx-4Zg59991.jpeg|141px|David Alpay as Mark Smeaton]]<br/>Character:<br/></b>[[Mark Smeaton]]<b><br/><br/>Executed for:<br/></b>Treason <br/><br/><font size="2">The only accused who confessed to adultery with the queen and implicated the other men<b>.</b></font><br/><b><br/>Method of Execution:<br/></b>Beheaded<br/><font size="2">His sentence of being hanged, drawn and quartered being commuted possibly due to cooperating and confessing.</font></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> <b>[[File:Vb4O1xARwtKsW02ggyfPrg59533.jpeg|453px|Mark Smeaton - Execution]]<br/>[[File:CHA wmZmnBoOLlTg29 PBg56714.jpeg|453px|Mark Smeaton - Execution]]<br/><br/>Last words (historically) :<br/></b>"Masters, I pray you all pray for me, for I have deserved the death."<br/><b><br/></b></td></tr> <tr> <td class="" width="26%"> <div align="center"> <b>[[File:UX2BUXDGnbq6WnRTapqrxg30549.jpeg|148px|[Untitled]]]</b></div> <div align="center"> <b>Character:</b><br/>[[Anne Boleyn]]<br/><br/><b>Executed for:</b><br/>High treason, adultery &amp; incest. <br/><br/><font size="2">[[Ambassador Chapuys]] reported that Anne " was principally charged with her brother and other accomplices; that there was a promise between her and Norris to marry after the King's death which it thus appeared they hoped for, ... [and] that she had poisoned [Katherine of Aragon] and intrigued to do the same to [Mary]"</font>. <font size="2">(She was not accused of witchcraft although Henry said he believed she had enchanted him.). <br/>Adultery on the part of a queen was not a treasonable, civil offence necessitating execution: the accusations were designed to impugn her moral character. The treason was plotting, with her "lovers", the king's death, to ostensibly marry one of them afterwards ; [[Henry Norris]].</font><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><b>Method of Execution:<br/></b>Beheaded by sword<b><br/></b></div></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> [[File:9urL65pUgNOVwY5vdannkg36318.jpeg|453px|Anne Boleyn - Execution]]<br/>[[File:4e8uq9nCZGwbK0N5X2FlfQ40340.jpeg|453px|Anne Boleyn - Execution]]<br/><b>Last Words (in the series):</b><br/>"Good Christian people, I have come here to die according to the law and thus yield myself to the will of the King, my lord. And if in my life I ever did offend the king's grace then surely with my death, I do now atone. I pray and beseech you all to pray for the life of the king, my sovereign lord and yours who is one of the best princes on the face of the earth, who has always treated me so well. Wherefore I submit to death with a good will, humbly asking pardon of all the world. If anyone should take up my case, I ask only to judge it kindly ...Thus I take my leave of the world and you and I heartily desire you all to pray for me....Lord Jesus receive my soul.."<br/>[see her actual words here : [[Anne Boleyn - Historical Profile|Historical Profile of Anne Boleyn]]]<br/><br/><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="275" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/youtubevideo/1b10e32bc1cea4e1cb5f368f8f388685cd7e14cf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="453" wmode="transparent"/></td></tr></table><br/><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="750">  <tr> <td bgcolor="#2d1140" class="WPC-edit-custom-bgColor" width="100%"> <div align="center"> <font face="Times" size="6">Season 3</font></div></td></tr></table><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="750">  <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>[[File:Lot7eEJ7vnL4oMpYBhDZCA34066.jpeg|145px|Gerard McSorley as Robert Aske]]<br/>Character:<br/></b>[[Robert Aske]]<b><br/><br/>Executed for:<br/></b>Treason<br/><br/><br/><font size="2">He was one of the leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace which revolted against the king.<b> </b>When Aske was sentenced to death he begged to be fully dead before being dismembered. Henry agreed and instead had him hanged in chains- that is sticking him in a gibbet while still alive. Instead of taking about six minutes to die, it would have taken about six agonizing days.</font><br/><b><br/>Method of Execution:<br/></b>Hanged in Chains<b><br/></b></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> [[File:Er50yCqQOARCnVq9xE5Gag146738.jpeg|460px|Robert Aske as played by Gerard McSorley]]<br/>[[File:Gs14CUagx2LqIdUDlPdeCA80143.jpeg|460px|Robert Aske as played by Gerard McSorley]]<br/><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="247" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/youtubevideo/1a945d9bee3e4877efd66235c8dc398f5a741979" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="408" wmode="transparent"/></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>Characters:</b><br/>Members of the pilgrimage of grace.<br/><br/><b>Executed for:</b><br/>Revolting Against the King.<br/><br/><b>Execution Method:</b><br/>Hanged</td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> [[File:PDCXqmwvDy4ZNc8CB2giPQ65350.jpeg|450px|Pilgrimage of Grace - Hangings]]</td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> [[File:Nk 7qaetKz4oBEDbEYI5HA27101.jpeg|132px|John Lambert as played by Ben Price]]<br/><b>Character: </b><br/>[[John Lambert]]<br/><br/><b>Executed For:</b><br/>Heresy<br/><br/><b>Method of Execution:</b><br/>Burning<br/><br/><font size="2">He had picked a theological dispute with a pastor in London because he didn’t buy into transubstantiation, the Catholic doctrine (still extant today) that the bread blessed on the altar became the <i>literal</i> body of Christ.</font><font size="2"> The king himself debated theology with the accused and when </font><font size="2">Henry induced Parliament to pass the <a class="external" href="http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/act_six_articles.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Act of the Six Articles</a>, essentially establishing this essentially Catholic doctrine as the basis for the Church of England and criminalizing dissent</font>.... <font size="2">Lambert was made an example of, and became a turning point in the balance of power with regard to the progress of the reformation.</font></td> <td class="" width="74%"> <div align="center"> [[File:HipjK87s4MebW1SqSzlVEA118370.jpeg|450px|John Lambert - Execution]]</div> <div align="center"> [[File:LujIYXi2nSFX0Rtn5FHDXg125364.jpeg|456px|John Lambert - Execution]]<br/><br/><font size="3"><b>last words</b>, “None but Christ! None but Christ!”<i><br/></i></font><font color="#ffa500" size="3">*in the series he says <b>"All for Christ, all for Christ"</b></font></div></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>Characters:<br/></b>[[John Constable]], [[Lord Darcy]]<br/>&amp; [[Charlie Raw]]<b><br/><br/>Executed for:<br/></b>Treason - They were members and leaders of the pilgrimage of grace that revolted against the King.<br/><b><br/>Method of Execution:<br/></b>Beheaded<b><br/><br/><font color="#ffa500" size="2">*Executions not shown*</font><br/></b></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> [[File:DlvxwEboXzlv2zrK3Yra5A57488.jpeg|450px|Members of Pilgrimage of Grace]]</td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>Characters:<br/></b>[[Lady Salisbury]] &amp; her son [[Henry Pole]]<b> </b>[<font size="2">Related to [[Reginald Pole]] who the Pope was preparing to take over the Throne if the rebellion has succeeded</font>]<b><br/><br/>Executed for:<br/></b>Treason<br/><br/><font size="2">A shirt embroidered by [[Lady Salisbury]] showing the 5 wounds of Christ, a symbol of the Pilgrimage of the Grace was used as evidence of her involvement.</font> <font size="2">She</font> <font size="2">was 67 years old, frail and ill, was dragged to the block &amp; it was reported that she refused to lay her head on it, and in the struggle that ensued, the executioner's first blow made a gash in her shoulder rather than her neck. Several additional blows were required to complete the execution. <br/></font><font size="2">[Source: Catholic Encyclopedia]</font><br/><b><br/><br/>Method of Execution:<br/></b>Beheaded<b><br/><br/><font color="#ffa500" size="2"><br/>*Executions not shown*</font><br/></b></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>[[File:S8FdUlYpNIs0g3kIgacVhg23277.jpeg|200px|Lady Salisbury as played by Kate O'Toole]][[File:-yOH9OEfKab2Z2olOUWTUQ27683.jpeg|207px|Henry Pole as Played by Jake Maskell]]</td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>[[File:-9JJETX51mZUff351e66UA33032.jpeg|141px|James Frain as Thomas Cromwell]]<br/>Character:<br/></b>[[Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex|Thomas Cromwell]]<b><br/><br/>Executed for:<br/></b>Heresy &amp; Treason<br/><br/><font size="2">He </font><font color="#ffffff" size="2">had arranged the failed marriage of the King to [[Anne of Cleves]],and his enemies used [[King Henry VIII|Henry's]] displeasure to their advantage.</font> <font color="#ffffff" size="2">They charged he had encouraged and spread heretical literature, allowed heretics to preach, released them from prison, and allied himself against their enemies. Significantly, it was reported that in March 1539 Cromwell said that, even if Henry turned from Protestantism, <i>'yet I would not turn, and if the king did turn, and all his people, I would fight in this field in mine own person, with my sword in my hand against him and all other'</i>. That was treason</font>. <font color="#ffffff" size="2">He was also charged with selling export licenses illegally, granting passports and commissions without royal knowledge</font><br/><b><br/>Method of Execution:<br/></b>Beheaded<b><br/></b></td> <td align="center" class="" width="74%"> [[File:1vKPrb4ORP53rtAxOXhkTw100633.jpeg|440px|Thomas Cromwell - Execution]]<br/>[[File:1YcKN7xav IgPW3Y14shAw106675.jpeg|441px|Thomas Cromwell - Execution]]<br/><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="344" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/youtubevideo/964257f0344a5e394b69d60ea8cc45e58911ca9b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" wmode="transparent"/></td></tr> <tr> <td class="" width="26%"><br/></td> <td class="" width="74%"><br/></td></tr></table><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="750">  <tr> <td bgcolor="#2d1140" class="WPC-edit-custom-bgColor" width="100%"> <div align="center"> <font face="Times" size="6">Season 4</font></div></td></tr></table><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="750">  <tr><td align="center" class="" width="26%"><b>Character: </b><br/><font color="#ffffff">[[Thomas Culpepper]]</font><br/><br/><b>Executed for:</b><br/><font color="#ffffff">Treason<br/><br/></font><font color="#ffffff" size="2">(Adultery with the Queen)</font><br/><br/><b>Method of Execution: </b><font color="#ff0000"><br/><font color="#ffffff">Beheaded</font></font></td><td class="" width="74%"><div align="center"> [[File:ZZ3hNcjTX1G7GDLei X dA42947.jpeg|472px|Thomas Culpepper's death]]<br/>[[File:1vA5dJCP9EaAclc9ZfBtKg49142.jpeg|466px|Thomas Culpepper's death]]<br/>[[File:FR bzUmWs6RCBYXkciuWOw17172.jpeg|466px|Thomas Culpepper...]]<br/><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="350" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/youtubevideo/dac3f2425a86d07c6607d15121e3e486c4e4028b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" wmode="transparent"/></div></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="" width="26%"><b>Character: </b><br/>[[Francis Dereham]]<br/><br/><b>Executed for:</b><br/>Treason<br/><br/><font size="2">(Premarital Sexual Relations with the Queen)</font><br/><br/><b>Method of Execution:</b><br/>Hung, Drawn, &amp; Quartered</td><td class="" width="74%"><div align="center">[[File:SvxfEfacaRvMCsgB1AFPRQ153769.jpeg|454px|Francis Dereham]]<br/>[[File:QHtWYnuGiD9k3AhBvafHew30410.jpeg|461px|francis dereham being hanged season 4 episode 5]]<br/>[[File:7xyTW6Kt6rB9m-kNzwY8dg75100.jpeg|454px|Francis Dereham is drawn]]</div> </td></tr><tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>Character:</b><br/><font color="#ffffff">[[Jane Boleyn]]<br/></font><br/> <br/><b>Executed for:</b><br/><font color="#ffffff">Treason<br/><font size="2"><br/></font></font> <br/><font color="#ffffff" size="2">(Accomplice to [[Katherine Howard]]'s adultery)</font><br/><br/><b>Method of Execution:</b><br/><font color="#ffffff">Beheaded</font></td> <td class="" width="74%"> <div align="center"> [[File:IyPM6rvLclBzUOThpsboXw138678.jpeg|454px|Jane Rochford delivers her execution speech]]<br/>[[File:AMDHGcdh-EKqUS-n JeNCg106264.jpeg|455px|Jane Boleyn and the axe]]</div></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b>[[File:Xg4iVn-5pjs7BrDZATOM3A24855.jpeg|143px|Katherine Howard]]<br/>Character: </b><br/><font color="#ffffff">[[Katherine Howard]]<br/></font><br/> <br/><b>Executed for: </b><br/><font color="#ffffff" size="3">Treason </font><font color="#ffffff" size="3">&amp; Adultery</font><br/><br/><b>Method of Execution: </b><font color="#ffffff">Beheaded</font></td> <td class="" width="74%"> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">[[File:Klm21GUmPwjP3lPCrOADKA109593.jpeg|450px|Katherine touches the block]]<br/>[[File:Hx3WfJfz5i4tKMtPxmqkkA112993.jpeg|450px|Katherine Howard's Execution]]</div><div align="center">[[File:TPH0sWKYBugMGwHmrBrtYA106349.jpeg|454px|Katherine and the axe]]</div></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="" width="26%"> <b><br/>[[File:WTIME9lktH4ocN2XU4IZZg59590.jpeg|175px|Anne Askew]]<br/><br/>Character:<br/>[[Anne Askew]]<br/><br/>Executed for:<br/></b>Heresy<b><br/><br/>Method of Execution:<br/></b>Burning<b><br/></b></td> <td class="" width="74%"><div align="center">[[File:8zmtFhJtAXsPl2exfU80UQ254656.jpeg|448px|Burning of Anne Askew]]</div><div align="center"><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="350" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/youtubevideo/c3dfda95763b4e029e0f0eb9fadcabdc8070f2b2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" wmode="transparent"/></div></td></tr> <tr> <td class="" width="26%"><br/></td> <td class="" width="74%"><br/></td></tr> <tr> <td class="" width="26%"><br/></td> <td class="" width="74%"><br/></td></tr></table><br/><div> </div><br/><br/><div> </div><br/></div>