Isabel Hotham

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On the scaffold, Captain Hotham proclaimed the innocence of himself and his father and laid his head on the block. With one blow, his head was severed from his body. His brother, Durand Hotham wrapped it in a scarf and laid it with his body in a coffin. In a similar fashion, also with one blow, Sir John Hotham died at the age of fifty-six and was buried in All Hallows, Barking. This is how the historian A.W.M. Stirling wrote of Captain Hotham's death:

'The night preceding the execution of the young officer, his wife Isabel, from whom he had been separated during his imprisonment, was allowed to visit him in the Tower. She quitted him only in the morning when he was led out to die. And in the dawning of that year, which to the one was to bring death and the other bereavement, the sorrowful couple bid each other a last fare well. Nine months later Isabel gave birth to a son, Henry, but who, the child of tears and grief, sank to an early grave.'