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2. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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   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 early modern Britain and Ireland. The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn behind a horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the ...

3. List of people hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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   Hanged, drawn, and quartered for murder in a private quarrel [50] John and Henry Sheares, Irish patriots, were hanged on 14 July 1798, outside of Newgate Prison 1766: Nicholas Sheehy: An Irish Catholic Priest who was hung, drawn and quartered for supposedly aiding the murder of John Bridges (though there are claims that Bridges survived) [51]

4. Oliver Cromwell's head - Wikipedia

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   After their trial, conviction and sentencing, twelve surviving regicides (those who had participated in the trial and execution of Charles I) were hanged, drawn and quartered—that is, dragged through the streets on an unwheeled sledge or hurdle, hanged by the neck and cut down live, disembowelled while alive, beheaded and dismembered (cut ...

5. List of people executed by the Tudors - Wikipedia

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   Hanged for treason in Wymondham after leading Kett's Rebellion. Humphrey Arundell: 27 January 1550 Hanged, drawn, and quartered at the Tower of London for treason after leading the Prayer Book Rebellion. Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset: 22 January 1552 Lord Protector of the Realm during the King's minority.

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7. Thomas Harrison (soldier) - Wikipedia

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   Major-General Harrison was the first of the regicides to be executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered on 13 October 1660. [7] Harrison, after being hanged for several minutes and then cut open, was reported to have leaned across and hit his executioner—resulting in the swift removal of his head. His entrails were thrown onto a nearby fire.

8. Richard Whiting (abbot) - Wikipedia

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   Here they were hanged, drawn and quartered, with Whiting's head being fastened over the west gate [4] of the now deserted abbey and his limbs exposed at Wells, Bath, Ilchester and Bridgwater. [ 3 ] Blesseds

9. List of regicides of Charles I - Wikipedia

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   Tried, found guilty of participating in the regicide; hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in October 1660. [99] Andrew Broughton: Clerk of the Court Alive Escaped to Switzerland in 1663. Died 1687. [100] John Cook: Solicitor-General Alive Tried, found guilty of regicide; hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross in October 1660 [101 ...