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	Drawing and quartering - Biocrawler
		Drawing and quartering was part of the penalty once ordained in England for treason.
		Typically, the resulting five parts (i.e., the four quarters of the body and the head) were gibbetted (put on public display) in different parts of the city or town to deter would-be traitors.
		The different treatment of lords and commoners was clear after the Cornish Rebellion of 1497: lowly-born Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank were hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, while their fellow rebellion leader Lord Audley was beheaded at Tower Hill.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Drawing_and_quartering (0 words)

	drawing and quartering@Everything2.com
		The division of the body into quarters was designed so that the body could be buried in the four corners of the realm.
		In Denmark, drawing and quartering was a punishment separate from the actual means of execution, and inflicted subsequently, upon the body of the executed individual.
		However, the "drawing" part was sometimes left out, and the body simply chopped into the requisite number of parts by the executioner.
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	quartering - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Quartering by the British was a grievance of...
		Quartering Act is the name of at least two acts of the Parliament of Great Britain.
		Established June 2, 1774, the Quartering Act of 1774 was similar in substance to the Quartering Act of 1765.
	encarta.msn.com /quartering.html (218 words)

	Hanging, drawing and quartering
		As you will see from the sentence, it should properly be called drawing, hanging and quartering as the condemned was drawn to the place of execution, tied to the hurdle or sledge which was dragged by a horse.
		The head and quarters were parboiled to prevent them rotting too quickly and then displayed upon the city gates as a grim warning to all.
		drawing for an engraving of the execution scene) Strangely, by tradition, we burn the "guy" on the bonfire on fireworks night in celebration of the Gunpowder Plot, although Fawkes was not burnt.
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	Hanging, drawing and quartering
		As you will see from the sentence it should properly be called drawing, hanging and quartering as the condemned was drawn to the place of execution tied to the hurdle which was dragged by a horse.
		(see drawing for an engraving of the execution scene) Strangely, by tradition we burn the "guy" on the bonfire on fireworks night in celebration of the Gun powder Plot, although Fawkes was not burnt.
		The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion led to a considerable number of trials for High Treason which resulted in 91 hanging drawing and quartering sentences passed by a Special Commission at Carlisle, of which 33 were carried out during October and November of that year at Carlisle (20), Brampton (6) and Penrith (7).
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	Drawn and Quartered
		As you will see from the sentence it should properly be called drawing, hanging and quartering as the condemned was drawn to the place of execution tied to the hurdle which was dragged by a horse.
		Drawing does not refer to the removal of the intestines in this context and remained part of the sentence for High Treason long after the disembowelling and dismemberment had ceased.
		There were hanging drawing and quartering executions as a result of the 1715 Rebellion and around 13 further ones at Tyburn between 1716 and 1719.
	www.angelfire.com /oz/uv/dandq (1776 words)

	Drawing and quartering
		Typically, the resulting five parts (i.e., the four quarters of the body and the head) were gibbeted (put on public display) in different parts of the city or town to deter would-be traitors.
		More Catholics were hung, drawn and quartered in Elizabeth's reign for 'treason' than the number of Protestants who had been burnt at the stake by her predecessor Mary I for heresy.
		Edward Marcus Despard and his six accomplices were sentenced to hanging, drawing and quartering for allegedly plotting to assassinate George III but their sentence was commuted to 'simple hanging and beheading'.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/dr/drawing_and_quartering.html (2420 words)

	Drawing and quartering
		Drawing and quartering was part of the penalty anciently ordained in England for treason.
		There is confusion among modern historians about whether "drawing" referred to the dragging to the place of execution or the disembowelling.
		Other notable victims of the punishment include Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot as well as Edward Marcus Despard[?] and his six accomplices who were hanged, drawn and quartered in 1803 for conspiring to assassinate George III.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered.html (151 words)

	DRAWING - Online Information article about DRAWING
		hair to a monochrome drawing of a man, and if the red be plain and unmistakable to all who are not the artist's accomplices, then the artist has succeeded; otherwise it is bootless to treat of colour and colour values (which of course must depend upon the existence of colour) in mono-chrome.
		life-like relief to drawings, but the method by which the students are allowed to get the relief is by employing t h e sense of vision S only.
		chief aim of draughtsmen, but that the art of drawing consists in giving a plain statement of one's ideas, be they slight or studied, of the solid forms of nature.
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	quartering - Encyclopedia.com
		(quarterings) Heraldry the coats of arms marshalled on a shield to denote the marriages into a family of the heiresses of others.
		Quartering species: the "living Constitution," the Third Amendment, and the Endangered Species Act.
		Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 2/25/1996; Anderson, Dennis Smith, Doug; 800 words; Deer hunters would be able to quarter their deer in the woods after it has been tagged under a provision of the Senate's omnibus fish and game bill.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O999-quartering.html (1054 words)

	Quartering Act - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Public response was mixed, with those who were doing the drawing and quartering generally being in favour, while those who were being drawn and quartered tended to be less enthusiastic.
		In 1770 the Quartering Act was repealed, in spite of never actually having been pealed in the first place.
		The measure was narrowly defeated in the House, and the Senate launched an immediate investigation, claiming that those who voted against it were giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and were just the sort of people that the bill was needed for in the first place.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Quartering_Act (290 words)

	Bambooweb: Drawing and quartering
		It is considered by many to be the epitome of "cruel and unusual" punishment and was reserved for traitors because treason was deemed more heinous than murder and other capital crimes.
		Typically, the resulting five parts (i.e., the four quarters of the body and the head) were gibbetted (put on public display) in different parts of the city or town to deter would-be traitors.
		The different treatment of lords and commoners was clear after the 1497 Cornish uprising: lowly-born Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank were hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, while their fellow rebellion leader Lord Audley was beheaded at Tower Hill.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/d/r/Drawing_and_quartering.html (451 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Hanged, drawn and quartered
		To be hanged, drawn and quartered was the penalty once ordained in England for treason.
		the four quarters of the body and the head) were gibbeted (put on public display) in different parts of the city, town, or, in famous cases, country, to deter would-be traitors who hadn't seen the execution.
		Thomas Milhorn claims that hanging, drawing and quartering was first used against William Maurice, who was convicted of piracy in 1241.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Hanged%2C_drawn_and_quartered (0 words)

	The Straight Dope: What do "drawn and quartered" and "keelhauling" mean?
		The statutory punishment for treason in England from 1283 to 1867, DandQ was a multimedia form of execution.
		Finally the condemned was beheaded and his body cut into quarters, one arm or leg to a quarter.
		It is clear that in this context "drawing" is more correctly understood as referring to the act of dragging the prisoner to the place of execution, and the entry will be amended at the earliest opportunity.
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	New Catholic Dictionary: drawing and quartering
		A penalty of the English Criminal Code of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, inflicted on those found guilty of high treason touching the king's person or government.
		The person convicted was usually drawn on a sledge to the place of execution; there he was hung by the neck from a scaffold, being cut down and disembowelled while still alive; his head then was cut from his body and his corpse divided into four quarters.
		Many of the Catholic martyrs of England and Ireland, since the practise of their religion was declared high treason by law, suffered this cruel, barbarous death.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd02849.htm (101 words)

	quartering definition from the Dictionary of Words Online
		quartering n 1: a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages 2: living accommodations especially those assigned to military personnel 3: dividing into four equal parts
		The second Quartering Act, established June 2, 1774, was one of the...
		The foiling of this, and the hanging, drawing and quartering of the...
	www.dictionaryofwords.com /quartering_pag1.html (490 words)

	Medieval execution methods@Everything2.com
		Quartering: Legs and arms were separately tied to four horses and each horse would run away.
		Hanging: Criminals were hung at the gibbet and died either by breaking their necks or by choking to death.
		Then they were drawn, meaning that their intestines were cut out and burnt in front of them.
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	Hanging, drawing and quartering : AZ IMC
		To be hanged, drawn, and quartered was the penalty once ordained in England for treason.
		Until 1870, the full punishment for the crime was to be "hanged, drawn, and quartered" (picture) in that the convict would be:
		the four quarters of the body and the head) were gibbeted (put on public display) in different parts of the city, town, or, in famous cases, country, to deter would-be traitors.
	arizona.indymedia.org /news/2007/09/70180.php (349 words)

	Cruel and Unusual Punishment of the Innocent
		A well-known punishment used in Europe in past centuries was drawing and quartering.
		In addition to the disemboweling inflicted on William Wallace in the movie, the victim of drawing and quartering would be pulled into four parts while still alive.
		These "medical procedures" are all reminiscent of medieval torture/executions like drawing and quartering.
	www.neusysinc.com /columnarchive/colm0047.html (654 words)

	In Search of Shakespeare . Execution - Elizabethan style \| PBS
		Hanged, drawn and quartered engravingExecution was a popular spectator sport in Elizabethan England, and as such, became an effective tool of the police state in maintaining loyalty and obedience to the crown.
		Petty criminals could be hanged for a variety of offences, nobles and even royalty beheaded, but if the state really wanted to make an example of the victim - usually on the grounds of supposed treachery - their chosen method of execution was as barbaric as anything yet seen.
		Victims would first be dragged from their prison to the place of execution on a wooden hurdle pulled by horses, suffering the contempt and abuse of the crowd as they went.
	www.pbs.org /shakespeare/events/event87.html (403 words)

	drawing and quartering
		Gibbet is sometimes used to describe a gallows, a structure used in the execution of criminals by hanging.
		Peers and their wives and widows were formerly entitled to be tried for treason and for felonies in the House of Lords or the Lord High Steward's Court, the former being used in every case except when Parliament was not in session.
		Counterfeiting was treason, punishable by death by drawing and quartering.
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	DRAWING AND QUARTERING - Online Information article about DRAWING AND QUARTERING
		DRAWING AND QUARTERING - Online Information article about DRAWING AND QUARTERING
		Despard and his six accomplices were in 1803 hanged, drawn and quartered for conspiring to assassinate See also:
		form of " with-drawing room," the longer form being usual in the 16th and 17th centuries), the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DIO_DRO/DRAWING_AND_QUARTERING.html (602 words)

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		Coming back in (on the pilotboat) with seas on our starboard quarter, the operator chuckled with amazement as he took his hands off the wheel and let her hold her own course at 20 knots.
		Our senior launchman, this being the seventh CF pilotboat he’s operated, says this is undoubtedly the best seaboat he has ever ridden on.
		With moderately rough beam seas crossing the Caribbean, and gale-driven beam, quartering and broad-on seas to 15 feet in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, the crew was able to perform normal watch-keeping duties.
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	Executions (Pepys' Diary)
		It is the epitome of “cruel and unusal” punishment and was reserved for traitors because treason was deemed more heinous than murder and other capital crimes.
		There is confusion among modern historians about whether “drawing” referred to the dragging to the place of execution or the disembowelling.
		If you look at the little drawing you will see that the Gallows was triangular, enabling up to thirty felons to be hanged simultaneously.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/487.php (687 words)

	"Braveheart": Execution and Womenfolk
		He was then chained prostrate on a hurdle (just a piece of fencing, not a wheeled vehicle as in the film) and drawn by two horses through the filthy streets for the public to mock and stone (this being Edward's subtle idea of combining education with entertainment).
		In earlier times the explicit words "your privy parts cut away and burnt before your eyes" were spoken, one priest in Tudor times being recorded as observing that as they had not been of much use to him on earth, they were unlikely to be of much use to him in heaven.
		Teachers of history to children, while explaining the meaning of hanging, drawing and quartering, usually hide the horror by exploiting the ambiguity of "drawing", and I have often been questioned by adults who, remembering this, insist that the English never disembowelled anyone, not even Scotsmen.
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	The Cook Political Report Weekly Column Archives
		American history is rife with examples of the dominant political party in a state drawing and quartering the minority party by gerrymandering, or reconfiguring election districts for maximum benefit.
		Democrats are fearful that a majority of the Governors will be Republican in 2001 (currently there are 31 GOP Governors) and that their party won't fare as well as it did in 1991, when 28 of the Governors were Democrats.
		While there is little doubt that each party will try to draw lines to its advantage in 2001, its power to do so may be more limited than commonly thought.
	www.cookpolitical.com /column/1999/121199.php (962 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		the four quarters of the body and the head) were gibbeted (put on public display) in different parts of the city, town, or, in famous cases, country, to deter would-be traitors.
		It is claimed that hanging, drawing and quartering was first used against William Maurice, who was convicted of piracy in 1241.
		He was then emasculated, quartered, and his body parts put into a coffin and buried in the pebbles at the seaside.
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