Note 442 — Chapter XI
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“The xii day of April was Sir Thomas Wyatt set upon the gallows on Hay Hill, beside Hyde Park, where did hang three men in chains, where the Queen’s men and Wyatt’s men did skirmish, where he and his captains were overcome, thank be to God” (Machyn, Diary, p. 60). According to Wriothesley, Wyatt was beheaded on Tower Hill “at 6 o’clock in the forenoon, and his body after quartered on the scaffold” (Chronicle, vol. ii., p. 115). Wriothesley gives the date of his execution as the 11th April. It is probable that one of his quarters was set on the gallows on Hay Hill.