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The Treason Act 1790 (30 Geo. 3.c. 48) was an Act of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain which abolished burning at the stake as the penalty for women convicted of high treason, petty treason and abetting, procuring or counselling petty treason, and replaced it with drawing and hanging.
Woman accused of witchcraft; burned at the stake. Gentile Budrioli: d. 1498, 14 July Italian: Tortured and burned on the stake in Bologna. Narbona Dacal: d. 1498 Spanish: Accused of witchcraft during the trial by the Inquisition. Burned at the stake. Hatuey: C. 1478 - 1512 Cuban: Accused of rebellion and witchcraft; burned at the stake in ...
Elizabeth Gaunt. Elizabeth Gaunt (died 23 October 1685) was an English woman sentenced to death for treason after having been convicted for involvement in the Rye House Plot.
After the rope binding Smith to the stake burned away, he fell off the scaffolding [11] and attempted to get away, but onlookers kicked him back into the flames. [8] After the fire reduced Smith's body to a brittle cinder, members of the crowd sifted through the ashes to collect Smith's bones and shards of wood as souvenirs. [ 12 ]
In theyr calendar before theyr deuout prayers, they haue sette vs a new saynt/ syr Thomas Hitton the heretyke that was burned in Kent, [...] they haue as I sayde sette his name in the calendar byfore a boke of theyr englyshe prayours, yn the name of saynt Thomas the martyr, in the vigyle of the blessed apostle saynte Mathye, the xxiii. daye of ...
De heretico comburendo is a Latin phrase meaning "Regarding the burning of heretics". An alternate spelling is De haeretico comburendo, reflecting the proper ancient and Middle Ages spelling (by the second century the diphthong ae had been changed in pronunciation from to ; most texts today use the spelling without the letter a).
Lollards Pit, located just outside the old city boundary of the English city of Norwich, was the place where Lollards, and later a number of Marian martyrs, were burned at the stake for heresy. The condemned would be led across Bishop Bridge—and thus outside of the old city walls—to be executed. Ian Lolworth was said to be the first to be ...
Frieze on the memorial to the Stratford Martyrs. The Stratford Martyrs were eleven men and two women who were burned at the stake together for their Protestant beliefs, either at Stratford-le-Bow, Middlesex or Stratford, Essex, both near London, on 27 June 1556 during the Marian persecutions.