278.
** Burnet, vol.i.p.

281, 282.
When brought to the place of execution, he avoided all earnest protestations of his innocence, and all complaints against the sentence pronounced upon him.

He knew that Henry would resent on his son those symptoms of opposition to his will, and that his death alone would not terminate that monarch's vengeance.

He was a man of prudence, industry, and abilities; worthy of a better master and of a better fate.

Though raised to the summit of power from a low origin, he betrayed no insolence or contempt towards his inferiors; and was careful to remember all the obligations which, during his more humble fortune, he had owed to any one.