=Source.=--_Brief Chronicle of Sir John Oldcastle._ ("Harleian
Miscellany," vol. ii., pp. 276, 277.)
And upon the day appointed he was brought out of the Tower with his
arms bound behind him, having a very cheerful countenance. Then was he
laid upon an hurdle, as though he had been a most heinous traitor to
the Crown, and so drawn forth into Saint Giles Field, where they had
set up a new pair of gallows. As he was come to the place of execution,
and was taken from the hurdle, he fell down devoutly on his knees,
desiring Almighty God to forgive his enemies. Then stood he up and
beheld the multitude, exhorting them, in most goodly manner, to follow
the laws of God written in the Scriptures and in any wise to beware of
such teachers as they see contrary to Christ in their conversation and
living; with many other special counsels. Then was he hanged up there
by the middle in chains of iron, and so consumed alive in the fire;
praising the name of God so long as his life lasted. In the end he
commended his soul into the hands of God, and so departed hence most
christianly, his body resolved into ashes.