be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early...
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To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a penalty in England, Wales, Ireland and the United Kingdom for several crimes, but mainly for high treason. This...
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Quartering (redirect from Quartered)
Dismemberment - a form of execution Hanged, drawn and quartered - another form of execution Quartering (heraldry) Coning and quartering a process for splitting...
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Hanged Richard Nelthorpe – Hanged John Rouse – Hanged, drawn and quartered Richard Rumbold – Hanged, drawn and quartered for subsequent participation...
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List of regicides of Charles I (section Others exempted from the general pardon and found guilty of treason)
see; and a bloody week this and the last have been, there being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered." In 1662, three more regicides were hanged, drawn and quartered...
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Hugh Despenser the Younger (category People executed under the Plantagenets by hanging, drawing and quartering)
charged with high treason and ultimately hanged, drawn and quartered. Despenser the Younger rose to become Chamberlain and a close advisor to King Edward...
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Thomas Harrison (soldier) (category People executed by Stuart England by hanging, drawing and quartering)
arrested, found guilty of treason as a regicide, and sentenced to death. He was hanged, drawn and quartered on 13 October 1660, facing his execution with...
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Disembowelment (section Mummification and embalming)
men who were hanged, drawn and quartered – tortured on the rack, hanged until not quite dead, subjected to emasculation, disembowelment and then chopped...
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James Hind (category People executed under the Interregnum (England) by hanging, drawing and quartering)
loyalty and was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1652 at Worcester. He was the subject of a biography The English Gusman by George Fidge (London 1652), and 16...
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Wexford Martyrs (category People executed by Ireland by hanging, drawing and quartering)
of the Church within her dominions. On 5 July 1581, they were hanged, drawn and quartered in Wexford, Ireland. They were beatified in 1992 by Pope John...
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Gunpowder Plot (redirect from Attempted assassination of James VI and I)
surviving conspirators, including Fawkes, were convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. Some details of the assassination attempt were allegedly...
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and mariticide. While men guilty of heresy were also burned at the stake, those who committed high treason were instead hanged, drawn and quartered....
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Dismemberment. Breaking wheel Cannibalism Death by sawing Decapitation Hanged, drawn and quartered Slow slicing Total body disruption, also known as gross dismemberment...
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Gibbeting (redirect from Hanged in chains)
Edward II, were drawn and hanged before being exhibited on a gibbet near Bristol. However, the people made relics of these bloody and mutilated remains...
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Guy Fawkes (section Trial and execution)
sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. However, at his execution on 31 January, he died when his neck was broken as he was hanged, with some sources...
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that examines the practice of lingchi Combing (torture) Flaying Hanged, drawn and quartered – an English method of torturous execution Scaphism – an alleged...
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hanged, drawn and quartered in Shrewsbury by Edward I for treason William Wallace, Scottish resistance fighter (1305) – hanged, drawn and quartered by...
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Anthony Babington (category People from Dethick, Lea and Holloway)
of England and conspiring with the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, for which he was hanged, drawn and quartered. The "Babington Plot" and Mary's involvement...
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William Wallace (category People executed under the Plantagenets by hanging, drawing and quartering)
handed over to King Edward I of England, who had him hanged, drawn and quartered for high treason and crimes against English civilians. Since his death,...
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Eustace White (category Forty Martyrs of England and Wales)
trial in December 1591 and subsequently hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn on 10 December 1591, along with another priest and three laymen. He is one...
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Stuart Restoration (section England and Wales)
London, ten were publicly hanged, drawn and quartered: Thomas Harrison, John Jones, Adrian Scrope, John Carew, Thomas Scot, and Gregory Clement, who had...
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Ambrose Rookwood (category People executed by Stuart England by hanging, drawing and quartering)
man". He was convicted; his request for mercy was ignored, and he was hanged, drawn and quartered on 31 January, in the Old Palace Yard at Westminster. Born...
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hanged, drawn and quartered 9 February 1307, Carlisle, Cumberland. Alexander de Brus (born c. 1285); hanged, drawn and quartered 9 February 1307, Carlisle...
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place where the crime was committed; or burning at the stake; and being drawn and quartered, of which the latter two were common in cases of treason. The...
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Edward Osbaldeston (category People executed under Elizabeth I by hanging, drawing and quartering)
Edward Osbaldeston was an English martyr, born about 1560. Не was hanged, drawn and quartered at York, 16 November 1594. Edward Osbaldeston was born about...
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Capital punishment in the United Kingdom (redirect from Capital punishment in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Anthony Babington, John Ballard and eleven others were hanged, drawn and quartered for conspiring to kill Elizabeth I and replace her with Mary, Queen of...
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Thomas Percy (Pilgrimage of Grace) (category People executed by Tudor England by hanging, drawing and quartering)
uprising against King Henry VIII. He was convicted of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) states that he...
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Treason (redirect from Aid and Comfort)
being hanged, drawn and quartered (men) or burnt at the stake (women), although beheading could be substituted by royal command (usually for royalty and nobility)...
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List of prisoners of the Tower of London (category Lists of prisoners and detainees)
John Graham, Earl of Menteith imprisoned after Neville's Cross, hanged, drawn and quartered in 1347. John II of France was imprisoned after being captured...
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