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	Hanging
		Hanging is one of the forms of capital punishment which has been used as a method of execution throughout history.
		One typical sentence was for the perpetrator to be 'hanged, drawn and quartered'.
		Early methods of hanging simply involved a slip knot on a rope placed around the victim's neck, with the loose end thrown or tied to a tree branch; the criminal was then drawn up and slowly strangled.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Hanging.html (571 words)

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		Hanged, drawn and quartered at Lincoln's Inn Fields on 20 Sept 1586.
		Hanged, drawn and quartered on 20 Sept 1586.
		1586 TICHBURNE Chidiock Babington conspirator Hanged, drawn and quartered on 20 Sept 1586.
	members.lycos.co.uk /AdrianBallard/babington_plot_tower_prisoners_b.htm (190 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Drawn.
		The evidence seems to be that traitors were drawn to the place of execution, then hanged, then “drawn” or disembowelled, and then quartered.
		Thus the sentence on Sir William Wallace was that he should be drawn (detrahatur) from the Palace of Westminster to the Tower, etc., then hanged (suspendatur), then disembowelled or drawn (devaletur), then beheaded and quartered (decolletur et decapitetur).
		If by “drawn” is meant conveyed to the place of execution, the phrase should be “Drawn, hanged, and quartered;” but if the word is used as a synonym of disembowelled, the phrase should be “Hanged, drawn, and quartered.”
	www.bartleby.com /81/5350.html (164 words)

	Derby Ghosts
		It should properly be called drawing, hanging and quartering as the condemned was drawn to the place of execution on a hurdle (Similar to a piece of fencing made from thin branches interwoven to form a panel.) He was tied to the hurdle 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.
		Hanging, drawing and quartering remained the lawful punishment for treason until abolished in 1814.
	www.melisimo.com /dg/hdq.htm (500 words)

	Hung, drawn and quartered
		Hanged, drawn and quartered was the punishment for men who committed treason, i.e.
		There's some debate over whether drawn refers to the dragging of the live victim to the butcher's block or the (with)drawing of the entrails.
		All the conspirators that survived long enough to be tried were sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/189300.html (447 words)

	Hanging, drawing and quartering
		The bodies were then drawn back up onto the platform and placed on their coffins with the neck of each over a small block set at the end of each coffin in turn.
		After hanging for half an hour, their bodies were cut down and placed in their coffins, with their necks over the one edge.
		Ordinary hanging replaced it, although the Monarch could still order beheading and quartering of the body, but the cutting down of the prisoner whilst still alive and the disembowelling and burning of his organs had ceased a century earlier.
	www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk /hdq.html (1926 words)

	Tower of London: Britain's Heritage and History
		Hanged, beheaded and quartered at Tyburn on 4 May 1534.
		Hanged, drawn and quartered at the West Side of St Paul's churchyard on 30 January 1606.
		As she had invented yellow-starch for ruffs, she was hanged at Tyburn in November 1615 wearing a yellow ruff and cuffs.
	www.camelotintl.com /tower_site/prisoners/book.html (1828 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)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Hanged or Strangled.
		King of Lydia, endeavoured to raise a new tribute from his subjects, and was hanged by the enraged populace, who threw the dead body into the river Pacto’lus.
		the most skilful of needle-women, hanged herself because she was outdone in a trial of skill by Minerva.
		He broke his promise, and gave her in marriage to a wealthier man. Archil’ochos so scourged them by his satires that both father and daughter hanged themselves.
	www.bartleby.com /81/7922.html (250 words)

	Hung, Drawn and Quartered
		Torture and execution methods, devices and instruments were used to inflict the deliberate, systematic, cruel and wanton infliction of physical and mental suffering - this was the worst method of all.
		In the 1500's, a total of 105 Catholic martyrs were hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in London.
		The Quarters of the the body were then hung in prescribed locations in the City of London as a deterrent to all English citizens.
	www.middle-ages.org.uk /hung-drawn-and-quartered.htm (397 words)

	Hanging
		Hanging came in various stages of severity: more serious crimes involved slow death and mutilation.
		But if he be convicted of willful murder, done either upon pretended malice, or in any notable robbery, he is either hanged alive in chains near the place where the fact was committed (or else upon compassion taken first strangled with a rope) and so continued till his bones consume to nothing.
		When willful manslaughter is perpetrated, beside hanging, the offender has his right hand commonly stricken off before or near unto the place where the act was done, after which he is led forth to the place of execution, and there put to death according to the law.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/history/hanging.html (279 words)

	Chapter Drawcansir <i>to</i> Drivelling Dotage of D by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		Drawn Hanged, drawn, and quartered, or Drawn, hanged, and quartered.
		If by "drawn" is meant conveyed to the place of execution, the phrase should be "Drawn, hanged, and quartered;" but if the word is used as a synonym of disembowelled, the phrase should be "Hanged, drawn, and quartered."
		Drawn Battle A battle in which the troops on both sides are drawn off, neither combatants claiming the victory.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1169/22507/1.html (563 words)

	Hanging, drawing and quartering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, the last Catholic to be executed for his faith in England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered (2995 words)

	quartered (Grose 1811 Dictionary)
		Divided into four parts; to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, is the sentence on traitors and rebels.
		Persons receiving part of the salary of an office from the holder of it, by virtue of an agreement with the donor, are said to be quartered on him.
		Soldiers billetted on a publican are likewise said to be quartered on him.
	www.fromoldbooks.org /Grose-VulgarTongue/q/quartered.html (115 words)

	Wikinfo \| Hanging
		In times of war, hanging is often considered a dishonourable method of execution and was for that reason it was used rather than execution by firing squad for war criminals as recently as the Nuremberg trials.
		Early refinements were to make the culprit climb a ladder or stand in a cart which was subsequently removed.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=hanging (688 words)

	The Guy Fawkes Bonfire 2002 :: Who Is Guy Fawkes :: Part 4
		For which cause also he shall be strangled being hanged up by the neck between heaven and earth as deemed unworthy of both or either as likewise that the eyes of men may behold and their hearts condemn him.
		He made no resistance to the block whilst he was in quartering and his bowels and heart were cast into the fire and his head cut off, the hangman holding it up as is usual.
		Their quarters were dipped in tar to preserve them whilst on display and their heads set up on display at Tower Bridge.
	www.lexi.net /bonfire/part4.php (2536 words)

	Drawing and quartering : Hanged, drawn and quartered (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Drawing and quartering was part of the penalty anciently ordained in England for treason.
		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.
		The sentence was last carried out in 1820 (though it was passed as late as 1867).
	www.mik.fastload.org.cob-web.org:8888 /ha/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered.html (217 words)

	The Straight Dope: What do "drawn and quartered" and "keelhauling" mean? (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		First the prisoner was drawn to the place of execution on a hurdle, a type of sledge.
		Finally the condemned was beheaded and his body cut into quarters, one arm or leg to a quarter.
		How exactly the quartering was to be accomplished was not always specified, but on at least some occasions horses were hitched to each of the victim's limbs and spurred in four directions.
	www.straightdope.com.cob-web.org:8888 /classics/a4_239.html (655 words)

	SHAKSPER 2003: Re: Public Executions: Hang, Drawn, and Quartered
		As I >understand it, during the quartering part, the condemned's four limbs >were tied to four different horses who were pointed in four different >directions and someone yelled giddyup.
		The rituals of hanging, drawing and quartering were reserved, I believe, for traitors and so were not universal.
		What marked the early modern execution rituals, according to Sharpe, was the vastly increased premium placed upon the convict making a 'good end', with a 'last dying speech' which confessed guilt and sought forgiveness.
	www.shaksper.net /archives/2003/0525.html (347 words)

	List of regicides of Charles I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tried, found guilty: hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross on Wednesday 17 October 1660.
		Went into hiding, captured, tried, found guilty; and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross on 17 October 1660.
		Escaped and died in exile on the European mainland in 1680.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_regicides_of_Charles_I (1388 words)

	Jesuit saints and blesseds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the basis of the false testimony, Ireland, Grove and Pickering were found guilty of high treason and condemned to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
		The execution was postponed for a month by royal order because Charles II never believed that the Jesuits were involved in a plot against him.
		They were hanged until dead, and then cut down so their bodies could be drawn and quartered.
	sjweb.info /saints/saint_show.cfm?SaintID=59 (502 words)

	The Compass newspaper -- Saint of the Day
		Would you be drawn and quartered for your faith?
		Both said they had done nothing to apologize for and that it was against their conscience to go to a Protestant church.
		They were hanged, drawn and quartered in 1588 on Aug. 30, the day we celebrate her feast.
	www.thecompassnews.org /compass/2000-08-25/00cn0825f2.htm (475 words)

	RUNNING WILD - LEAD OR GOLD (BANDS - DISCOGRAPHY - TRACKS - LYRICS - LINEUP - GUESTS - INFORMATION) - FaST Metal Pages: ...
		They've hanged, they've drawn, they've quartered And they still have a smile on their face, Stop these men.
		They've hanged, they've drawn, they've quartered And they still have a smile on their face, Yeah.
		They've hanged, they've drawn, they've quartered And they still have a smile on their face.
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	Law Enforcement Computer Information Security News and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hanged, drawn, and quartered was what the courts ordered as punishment for men convicted of the high crime of treason against the King of England.
		Quartering was what the courts ordered as punishment for men convicted of regicide against the King of France.
		The English hanged, drawn, and quartered on the other hand is very different from the French Quartering.
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	New Catholic Dictionary: drawing and quartering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	The Mediadrome - Words - Poems of the Week: Plots
		Everyone was edgy and, after talking for a while, he was assassinated by one of the King’s men, and the revolt collapsed.
		John Ball and Jack Straw were captured and hanged, drawn and quartered.
		My second poem for this week is the closing speech of John Ball in Wat Tyler: he has just been condemned by Sir John Tresilian to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/words_articles/poems_plots.htm (2297 words)

	Restoration
		Ten were found guilty and were sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered.
		Eleven members of the House of Commons who had signed Charles I's death warrant were hanged, drawn and quartered.
		I did not see their execution, but met their quarters mangled and cut and reeking as they were brought from the gallows in baskets.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /STUrestoration.htm (1332 words)

	Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Sixteenth Century Continued again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He was drawn at Tyburn, where he desired all Catholics to pray for him.
		On May 28, three priests, Thomas Ford, John Shert, and Robert Johnson were hanged, and drawn and quartered at Tyburn for exercising their Sacerdotal functions and for denying that Queen Elizabeth I was the head of the Church.
		He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Warwick.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/6461/1581.html (2563 words)

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