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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 February 2025. Medieval punishment for high treason The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and ...
Smithfield was one of the most important locations for public executions in the medieval and modern City of London. The following people were among those executed there. The following people were among those executed there.
Holinshed, Raphael (1808), Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, vol. 4, London: Johnson Jesse, John Heneage (1847), Literary and historical memorials of London , vol. 2, Bentley Northcote Parkinson, C. (1976), Gunpowder Treason and Plot , Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ISBN 0-297-77224-4
Although a wooden bridge existed prior to this period in the location of today's London Bridge, a stone version was completed in 1209, designed by master builder Peter of Colechurch. [21] It had a portcullis at the southern end to keep out attackers, and was covered in houses on either side, several storeys high and hanging out over the side of ...
The current London Bridge is often shown in films, news and documentaries showing the throng of commuters journeying to work into the City from London Bridge Station (south to north). An example of this is actor Hugh Grant crossing the bridge north to south during the morning rush hour, in the 2002 film About a Boy .
The London Museum has examples with toe points longer than 10cm, while a monk at Evesham Abbey claimed in 1394 that he had seen people wear them "half a yard (45cm) in length".
Hanging of a buccaneer at Execution Dock. Execution Dock was a site on the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts. The "dock" consisted of a scaffold for hanging. Its last executions were in 1830.
In Canada, hanging is the most common method of suicide, [20] and in the U.S., hanging is the second most common method, after self-inflicted gunshot wounds. [21] In the United Kingdom, where firearms are less easily available, in 2001 hanging was the most common method among men and the second most commonplace among women (after poisoning).