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Then , throwing down the Kerchief , the Executioner , at ONE BLOW , severed his Head from his Body . Then was a dreadful Crimson Shower of Gore all around ; and many and many a time at the Playhouse have I thought upon that Crimson Cascade on Tower Hill , when , in the tragedy of _ Macbeth _ , the wicked Queen talks of `` the old man having so much blood in him . '' The Corpse was put into the Coffin , and so into the Hearse , and was carried back to the Tower . At four o'clock came an Undertaker from Holborn Hill , very fine , with many mourning coaches full of Scots gentlemen , and fetched away the Body , in order to be sent to Scotland , and deposited in his own Tomb at Kirkhill . But leave not being given by Authority as was expected , it was again brought back to the Tower , and buried by the side of Kilmarnock and Balmerino , close to the Communion-rails in the little church of St. Peter-on-the-Green , where so much Royal and Noble Dust doth moulder away . _ Memorandum . _ -- The Block on which this Nobleman suffered was but a common Billet of Oak wood , such as Butchers use , and hollowed out for the purpose of accommodating the neck ; but it had not been stowed away in the White Tower for a month before it was shown to the Public for Money , and passed as the Block whereon Queen Anne Boleyn was beheaded .