that you Mrs. Lisle be conveyed from hence to the place from
whence you came, and from thence you are to be drawn on a hurdle
to the place of execution, where your body is to be burnt alive
till you be dead. And may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
The rest of the prisoners then had the usual judgment as in cases of
felony.
LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Look you, Mrs. Lisle, when I left his
majesty he was pleased to remit the time of all executions to
me; that whenever I found any obstinacy or impenitence I might
order the executions with what speed I should think best;
therefore Mr. Sheriff, take notice you are to prepare for this
execution of this gentlewoman this afternoon. But on that, I
give you, the prisoner, this intimation; we that are the judges
shall stay in town an hour or two; you shall have pen, ink and
paper, brought you, and if in the mean time you employ that pen,
ink and paper, and this hour or two well (you understand what I
mean) it may be you may hear further from us, in a deferring the
execution.
On the intercession of 'some divines of the church of Winchester'
execution was respited till 2nd of September; and her sentence was
afterwards commuted to beheading. She was accordingly beheaded on the
afternoon of the 2nd of September 1685 in the market-place of
Winchester.
In 1689, on the petition of her daughters Mrs. Lloyd and Mrs. Askew, her
attainder was annulled by Act of Parliament on the ground that the
verdict was 'injuriously extorted and procured by the menaces and
violences and other illegal practices of George Lord Jeffreys, baron of
Wem, then Lord Chief-Justice of the King's Bench.'[63]