that they could not be removed by force.[305]

[Footnote 303: Holinshed says, Edmund Tremayne was
racked, and I have already quoted Gardiner's letter
to Petre, suggesting the racking of "little
Wyatt."]

[Footnote 304: Her grace's cook said to him, My
lord, I will never suffer any stranger to come
about her diet but her own sworn men as long as I
live.--_Harleian MSS._ 419, and see Holinshed.]

[Footnote 305: L'Admiral s'est colere au grand
chamberlain de la Royne que a la garde de la dicte
Elizabeth et luy a dit qu'elle feroit encores
trancher tant de testes que luy et autres s'en
repentiroient.--Renard to Charles V., April 7:
_Rolls House MSS._]

The temptation of life having failed, after all, to induce Wyatt to
enlarge his confession beyond his first acknowledgments, it was
determined to execute him. On the 11th of April he was brought out of
his cell, and on his way to the scaffold he was confronted with
Courtenay, to whom he said something, but how much or what it is
impossible to ascertain.[306] Finding that his death was inevitable,
he determined to make the only reparation which was any longer in his
power to Elizabeth. When placed on the platform, after desiring the
people to pray for him, lamenting his crime, and expressing a hope
that he might be the last person to suffer for the rebellion, he
concluded thus:

[Footnote 306: Lord Chandos stated the same day in
the House of Lords that he threw himself at
Courtenay's feet and implored him to confess the
truth. The sheriffs of London, on the other hand,
said that he entreated Courtenay to forgive him for
the false charges which he had brought against him
and against Elizabeth.--Foxe, vol. vi. Compare
_Chronicle of Queen Mary_, p. 72, note.]

"Whereas it is said abroad that I should accuse my Lady Elizabeth's
Grace and my Lord Courtenay; it is not so, good people, for I assure
you neither they nor any other now yonder in hold or durance was privy
of my rising or commotion before I began."[307]

[Footnote 307: So far the _Ch