385.
** MS.p.15.Jebb, vol.ii.p 307, 191, 637.
*** Jebb, vol.ii.p.

307, 491, 637.
She now began, with the aid of her two women, to disrobe herself; and the executioner also lent his hand to assist them.

She smiled, and said that she was not accustomed to undress herself before so large a company, nor to be served by such valets.

Her servants, seeing her in this condition, ready to lay her head upon the block, burst into tears and lamentations: she turned about to them; put her finger upon her lips, as a sign of imposing silence upon them;[*] and having given them her blessing, desired them to pray for her.
* Jebb, p.

307, 492.
One of her maids, whom she had appointed for that purpose, covered her eyes with a handkerchief; she laid herself down without any sign of fear or trepidation, and her head was severed from her body at two strokes by the executioner.