I got early on to the ground, and when they were going to the gallows I kept as near to the condemned ones as I could.

There were two young, well- favored men, and a woman with gray hairs.

As they walked hand in band, the woman in the middle, the Marshal, who was riding beside them, and who was a merry drolling man, asked her if she was n't ashamed to walk hand in hand between two young men; whereupon, looking upon him solemnly, she said she was not ashamed, for this was to her an hour of great joy, and that no eye could see, no ear hear, no tongue speak, and no heart understand, the sweet incomes and refreshings of the Lord's spirit, which she did then feel.

This she spake aloud, so that all about could hear, whereat Captain Oliver bid the drums to beat and drown her voice.

Now, when they did come to the gallows ladder, on each side of which the officers and chief people stood, the two men kept on their hats, as is the ill manner of their sort, which so provoked Mr.Wilson, the minister, that he cried out to them: 'What! shall such Jacks as you come before authority with your hats on ?' To which one of them said: 'Mind you, it is for not putting off our hats that we are put to death.' The two men then went up the ladder, and tried to speak; but I could not catch a word, being outside of the soldiers, and much fretted and worried by the crowd.