When he was in the cart, first he commended his spirit into God's Hands, saying _In manus tuas_, etc.; then he besought all Catholics that were present to pray for him; I saw a good many who signed themselves in the crowd; and then he said some prayers in Latin; with the psalms _Miserere_ and _De Profundis_.
And then he addressed himself to the people, telling them he died for his religion, which was the Catholic Roman one, and prayed, and desired them to pray, that God would bring all Englishmen into it.

The crowd cried out at that, exclaiming against this _Catholic Romish Faith_; and so he said what he had to say, over again.

Then, before the cart was drawn away from him to leave him to hang, he asked pardon of all them he had offended, and even of the Queen, if he had indeed offended her.

Then one of the sheriffs called on the hangman to make an end; so Mr.Nelson prayed again in silence, and then begged all Catholics that were there once more to pray that, by the bitter passion of Christ, his soul might be received into everlasting joy.

And they did so; for as the cart was drawn away a great number cried out, and I with them, _Lord, receive his soul_.
"'He was cut down, according to sentence, before he was dead, and the butchery begun on him; and when it was near over, he moved a little in his pain, and said that he forgave the Queen and all that caused or consented to his death: and so he died.'" The priest's voice, which had shaken again and again, grew so tremulous as he ended that those that were at the end of the hall could scarcely hear him; and, as it ceased, a murmur ran along the seats.
Mr.FitzHerbert leaned over to the priest and whispered.