towards the town. To this pole a rope, of some dozen feet in length,
and having a noose at one end, was firmly secured. The butcher was
then brought forth, bound hand and foot, and the noose was thrown
over his neck.

While this was passing, the wretched man descried a person looking at
him from a window in a wooden structure projecting from the side of
the tower.

"What, are you there, Morgan Fenwolf?" he cried. "Remember what
passed between us in the dungeon last night, and be warned l You will
not meet your end as firmly as I meet mine?'

"Make thy shrift quickly, fellow, if thou hast aught to say," interposed
one of the halberdiers.

"I have no shrift to make," rejoined the butcher. "I have already settled
my account with Heaven. God preserve Queen Catherine!"

As he uttered these words, he was thrust off from the battlements by
the halberdiers, and his body swung into the abyss amid the hootings
and execrations of the spectators below.

Having glutted his eyes with the horrible sight, Henry descended from
the tower, and returned to Anne Boleyn.



IV. How King Henry the Eighth held a Chapter of the Garter--How he
attended Vespers and Matins in Saint George's Chapel--And how he