coke judgement and execution in treason and felony note that it be say by some  that when judgement be give that one shall be hang until he be dead the king  can alter the judgement a and command that he shall he behead for that the  execution ought to be conform to the judgement a constable case   a a Qure Vid  black command coke report er p and with this accord Henry fol and Stamford lib  fol vide ass pl vide f n b where it seem that he may he behead ass pl one be  behead for kill Adam Waltham the king messenger which be there take for petit  treason but when one be attaint of treason his judgement be to be hang by the  neck and cut down alive and his entrail and privy member cut off from his body  and burn in his sight his bead to be cut off his body to be divide into four  part and dispose of at the king will so that in such case the king may pardon  all the execution but decapitation for this be parcel of the judgement and the  king may pardon all or any part at his pleasure and it be resolve that the  duke of Somerset forasmuch as his judgement be to be hang by the neck can not  he behead for that will alter the judgement and so it uva resolve in the case  of the Lord Sturton in the time of queen mary and of the Lord Dacres in the  time of h both which be hang for felony it be resolve also that king Henry can  not by the law behead his wife for treason forjudicandum be legibusnon pattern  and note that when a nobleman be attaint of treason and have this judgement as  be aforesaid the course be that the king make his letter patent direct to the  Lord chancellor of England recite the attainder yet we mind to dispense with  that manner of execution of judgement in respect that the say a b be a  nobleman do therefore by these present remit and release the say a b of and  from such execution of judgement and instead thereof our pleasure be to have  the bead of the say a b cut off c as in such case have be use touch and  concern nobleman and by the same do require the Lord chancellor to make two  writ under the great seal one to the lieutenant to deliver the say prisoner  and the other to the sheriff of London to receive and execute the say prisoner  c and the case of the Lord Sanchez be strong for that he be not noble within  England c