 Dacre and several others were charged with murder and arraigned before the Lord High Steward, Lord Audley of Walden on 27 June.Dacre originally entered a plea of not guilty but was later persuaded to change it to guilty and throw himself upon the King's mercy in the hope of a reprieve.Unlike many of his contemporaries he was not executed by beheading but was hanged at Tyburn on 29 June 1541.