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Thomas Cromwell’s Execution. Although Cromwell wrote to the king proclaiming his innocence and begging for mercy, he was condemned to death, although it was unclear whether he would have to suffer the full traitor’s death of being hanged, drawn and quartered or be burned at the stake as a heretic.
Although Showtime's The Tudors shows Thomas Cromwell's execution as a rigged event by many of his enemies, there is no firm evidence that those who hated him payed and intoxicated the executioner in order to cause a long, painful, and gory beheading.
Thomas Cromwell. Thomas Cromwell was a loyal servant with Henry VIII, until Henry feared he was gaining too much control and fell out of his good books. He was arrested in 1540 with multiple charges that he had acted against the King, including high treason.
Thomas Cromwell had been arrested at a Privy Council meeting at Westminster on 10th June 1540, accused of being a traitor. He wrote to his master, King Henry VIII, from his prison in the Tower of London pleading his innocence and begging for mercy, but his pleas were ignored.
In 1540, Henry VIII gave his primary advisor, Thomas Cromwell, the axe. Well, technically the executioner gave him the axe, but the point still holds. Citing a dubious "contemporary" source, Victorian author Arthur Galton describes an "ungodly" affair in which the executioner hacked away at Cromwell's neck and head for a half an hour.
Thomas Cromwell (/ ˈ k r ɒ m w əl,-w ɛ l /; c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.
The execution of Thomas Cromwell. The King did not heed his words and Cromwell was executed on Tower Hill on 28 July 1540. It took three blows of the axe by 'the 'ragged and butcherly' executioner to sever his head.
