Original sentence: A special, high gibbet was erected in the marketplace at Launceston, and Mayne was executed there on November 29, 1577.Before being brought to the place of execution, Mayne was offered his life in return for a renunciation of his religion and an acknowledgment of the supremacy of the queen as head of the church.Declining both offers, he kissed a copy of the Bible, declaring that, "the queen neither ever was, nor is, nor ever shall be, the head of the church of England".Just as he was about to be hanged, he refused to implicate his co-religionists
Edited sentence: A special gibbet had been erected in the market place at Launceston, much higher than usual, and Mayne was executed there on November 29, 1577.Before being brought to the place of execution, Mayne engaged in an inconclusive disputation with certain protestant ministers, and was offered his life in return for a renunciation of his religion and an acknowledgment of the supremacy of the queen as head of the church.Declining both offers, he kissed a copy of the bible, declaring that, "the queen neither ever was, nor is, nor ever shall be, the head of the church of England".Just as he was about to be hanged, he refused to implicate his co-religionists, and then uttered "in manus tuas" as the noose took hold