I had forgotten one thing. I pray and beseech you all to bear witness here that I die in the Catholic faith.
Said by Blessed James Thompson on the gallows at York on November 28, 1582. Awaiting trial, he was tossed into a jail with common felons. He converted several of them to the Catholic Faith.
” He was condemned on November 25, 1582, and was hanged at the Knavesmire that December.[3] He protested the entire time that he had never plotted against the queen, and that he died in and for Catholic faith. He refused to dispute with the Protestant minister in attendance.[3] While he was hanging, he raised his hands to heaven, then beat his chest with his right hand, before he finally made the sign of cross and died. In spite of his sentence, he was neither disemboweled nor quartered, but was buried under the gallows.[
So much for Good Queen Bess.