But that the Duke of
York do give himself up to business, and is like to prove a noble
prince; and so indeed I do from my heart think he will. He says
that it is believed, as well as hoped, that care is taken to lay
up a hidden treasure of money by the King against a bad day. I
pray God it be so!
21st. Up, and after sending my wife to my aunt Wright's to get a
place to see Turner hanged, I to the 'Change; and seeing people
flock in the City, I enquired, and found that Turner was not yet
hanged. And so I went among them to Leadenhall Street, at the
end of Lyme Street, near where the robbery was done; and to St.
Mary Axe, where he lived. And there I got for a shilling to
stand upon the wheel of a cart, in great pain, above an hour
before the execution was done; he delaying the time by long
discourses and prayers one after another, in hopes of a reprieve;
but none come, and at last was flung off the ladder in his cloak.
A comely-looked man he was, and kept his countenance to the end:
I was sorry to see him. It was believed there were at least 12
or 14,000 people in the street.
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