About ten o'clock
Few hours had been tolled on the great clock of Saint Paul 's , or had rung across the water from the Tower guns , ere England knew what was the vengeance to be taken . Once more royal blood was shed upon Tower Hill ; once more England stooped to commit murder at the dictation of a foreign power . The white dove was sacrificed . About ten o'clock on the morning of the 12th of February , Lord Guilford Dudley was beheaded on Tower Hill . It is plain that he died a Protestant , seeing that no priest was present at his death . And like the fiends they were , his executioners brought him , both going to the scaffold , and his dead body in returning , past the windows of Partridge 's house , where his poor young wife had her lodging . They let her -- that tender bird of seventeen short summers -- from her chamber lattice see all the horror she could see , and feel all the agony she could feel ; and then they brought her forth , to die also .