I for my part forgive all men, and pray God also to forgive them. And if I have offended any of you here, I pray you and all the World to forgive me: and most chiefly I desire forgiveness of the Queen's highness, whom I have most grievously offended. Amen said the people. And I pray you all to witness with me, that I depart in perfect love and charity with all the world, & that you will assist me with your prayers at the hour of death. 

And one thing more good people I have to say unto you, which I am chiefly moved to do for discharge of my conscience, & that is to warn you and exhort you to beware of these seditious preachers, and teachers of new doctrine, which pretend to preach God's word, but in very deed they preach their own fancies, who were never able to explicate themselves, they know not today what they would have tomorrow, there is no stay in their teaching & doctrine, they open the book, but they cannot shut it again. Take heed how you enter into strange opinions or new doctrine, which hath done no small hurt in this realm, and hath justly procured the ire and wrath of god upon us, as well may appear who so list to call to remembrance the manyfold plagues that this realm hath been touched with all since we dissevered ourselves from the catholic church of Christ, and from the doctrine which hath been received by the holy apostles, martyrs, and all saints, and used through all realms christened since Christ. 

And I verily believe, that all the plagues that have chanced to this realm of late years since afore the death of king Henry the eight, hath justly fallen upon us, for that we have deuvded ourself from the rest of Christendom whereof we be but as a spark in comparison: Have we not had war, famine, pestilence, the death of our king, rebellion, sedition among ourselves, conspiracies? Have we not had sundry erroneous opinions sprung up among us in this realm, since we have forsaken the unity of the catholic Church? and what other plagues be there that we have not felt? 

And if this be not able to move you, then look upon Germany, which since it is fallen into this schism and division from the unity of the catholic church, is by continual dissension and discord, brought almost to utter ruin & decay. Therefore, lest an utter ruin come among you, by provoking too much the just vengeance of God, take up betimes these contentions, & be not ashamed to return home again, and join yourselves to the rest of Christian realms, and so shall you bring yourselves again to be members of Christ's body, for he cannot be head of a deformed or monstrous body. 

Look upon your creed, have you not there these words: I believe in the holy ghost, the holy catholic church, the communion of saynctes, which is the universal number of all faithful people, professing Christ, dispersed through the universal world: of which number I trust to be one. I could bring many more things for this purpose, albeit I am unlearned, as all you know, but this shall suffice. 

And here I do protest unto you good people, most earnestly, even from the bottom of my heart, that this which I have spoken is of myself, not being required nor moved thereunto by any man, nor for any flattery, or hope of life, and I take witness of my lord of Worcestre here, my old friend and ghostly father, that he found me in this mind and opinion when he came to me: but I have declared this only upon mine own mind and affection, for discharge of my conscience, & for the zeal and love that I bear to my natural country. I could good people rehearse much more even by experience that I have of this evil that is happened to this realm by these occasions, but you know I have another thing to do, whereunto I must prepare me, for the time draweth away. 

And now I beseech the Queen's highness to forgive me mine offenses against her majesty, whereof I have a singular hope, forasmuch as she hath already extended her goodness & clemency so far upon me that where as she might forthwith without judgment or any further trial, have put me to most vile & cruel death, by hanging drawing, and quartering, forasmuch as I was in the field in arms against her highness, her majesty nevertheless of her most merciful goodness suffered me to be brought to my judgment, and to have my trial by the law, where I was most justly & worthily condemned. And her highness hath now also extended her mercy and clemency upon me for the manner and kind of my death. And therefore my hope is, that her grace of her goodness will remyt al the rest of her indignation and displeasure towards me, which I beseech you all most heartily to pray for, and that it may please God long to preserve her majesty to reign over you in much honor and felicity. Amen, said the people. 

And after he had thus spoken he kneeled down, saying to them that were about: I beseech you all to bear me witness that I die in the true catholic faith, and then said the Psalms of Miserere, and De profundis, and his Pater nostre in Latin, and six of the first verses of the psalm, In te domine sperant ending with this verse, Into thy hands O lord I commend my spirit. And when he had thus finished his prayers, the executioner asked him forgiveness, to whom he said: I forgive you with all my heart, and do thy part without fear. And bowing toward the block he said, I have deserved a thousand deaths, and thereupon he made a cross upon the straw, and kissed it, and laid his head upon the block, and so died.