List of people hanged, drawn and quartered
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To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a penalty in England and the United Kingdom for several crimes, but mainly for high treason. This method was abolished in England in 1870.
Date executed | Name | Notes |
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1283-10-03 | Dafydd ap Gruffydd | The last independent ruler of Wales, and the first prominent person to be executed in this manner[1] |
1305-08-23 | William Wallace | Treason in the Wars of Scottish Independence |
1323-03-03 | Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle | Treason in the Wars of Scottish Independence[2] |
1326-11-24 | Hugh Despenser the Younger | For sodomy; contemporary accounts differ on whether he died from the full sentence of being hanged, drawn, and quartered[citation needed] |
1381-07-04 | Thomas Baker (Peasants' Revolt leader) | Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt[3][4] |
1381-07-15 | John Ball | Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt[5] |
1381-1382 | John Buk | Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt[6] |
1381–1382 | Richard de Leycester | Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt[6] |
1382-05-6 | John Wrawe | Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt[7] |
1388 | Thomas Usk | Accused of misleading King Richard II[8] |
1400 | Thomas Blount | Executed for plotting the overthrow of Henry IV of England in the Epiphany Rising |
1401 | Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan | Allowed Owain Glyndŵr to escape capture, and therefore disemboweled and dismembered[9] |
1404 | John Cerle | Killed the Duke of Gloucester and therefore Johannes Cerle was hanged, drawn, and quartered[10] |
1539 | Richard Whiting (abbot) | The last Abbot of Glastonbury executed on Glastonbury Tor for treason, alongside two of his monks, John Thorne and Roger James who suffered the same fate. |
1541 | Francis Dereham | Executed for "Succeeding the King in the Queen's affections" [11] |
1554 | Thomas Wyatt the younger | Sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered for Wyatt's rebellion, but the sentence was commuted to beheading[12] |
1554-05 | William Thomas (scholar) | Accused of planning to murder Mary I of England |
1577 | Cuthbert Mayne | One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales executed under anti-Catholic laws[13][14] |
1577 | Edmund Campion | One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales executed under anti-Catholic laws[13][14] |
1581-12-01 | Alexander Briant | Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[15] |
1586-09-20 | Anthony Babington | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot[16] |
1586-09-20 | John Ballard (Jesuit) | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot[17] |
1586-09-20 | Chidiock Tichborne | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot |
1586-09-20 | Henry Donn | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot |
1586-09-20 | Robert Barnewell | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot |
1586-09-20 | John Savage | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot |
1586 | Edward Havington | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, part of the second group which was required by Elizabeth I to hang until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering after public outcry at the horror of the drawing and quartering of 20 September 1586[16] |
1586 | Charles Tilney | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[16] |
1586 | Edward Jones | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[16] |
1586 | John Charnock | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[16] |
1586 | John Travers | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[16] |
1586 | Jerome Bellamy | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[16] |
1586 | Robert Gage | Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[16] |
1594-07-24 | John Boste | Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[18][19] |
1595 | Roderigo Lopez | English doctor executed for allegedly poisoning Elizabeth I. Later believed to be innocent. |
1606-01-30 | Everard Digby | For involvement in Gunpowder Plot |
1606-01-30 | Robert Wintour | For involvement in Gunpowder Plot |
1606-01-30 | John Grant | For involvement in Gunpowder Plot |
1606-01-30 | Thomas Bates | For involvement in Gunpowder Plot |
1606-01-31 | Thomas Wintour | For involvement in Gunpowder Plot |
1606-01-31 | Ambrose Rookwood | For involvement in Gunpowder Plot |
1606-01-31 | Robert Keyes | For involvement in Gunpowder Plot |
1606-01-31 | Guy Fawkes | For involvement in Gunpowder Plot, but he managed to cheat the executioner by jumping from the scaffold while his head was in the noose, breaking his neck.[20][21] His lifeless body was nevertheless drawn and quartered,[22][23] and his body parts distributed to "the four corners of the kingdom".[24] |
1628-08-28 | Edmund Arrowsmith | Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[25][26] |
1641-09-10 | Ambrose Barlow | Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[27][28][29] |
1643-05-30 | George Bouchier | For his activities in the English Civil War[30] |
1643-05-30 | Robert Yeamans | For his activities in the English Civil War[31] |
1646-06-30 | Philip Powell | For being a priest[32] |
1653 | Felim O'Neill of Kinard | Executed for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1641[33][34] |
1654-06-28 | John Southworth | Cromwell ordered that surgeons sew the corpse back together so that it could be sent to Douai College for burial[35] |
1658-07-07 | Edward Ashton (colonel) | For the plot against the Lord Protector set on foot by agents of Charles II in 1658, and for complicity in which Sir Henry Slingsby and John Hewet were executed[36] |
1660-10-13 | Col. Thomas Harrison | For regicide of Charles I |
1663 | Thomas Oates | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot[37][38] |
1663 | Samuel Ellis | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | John Nettleton, sr. | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | John Nettleton, jr. | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | Robert Scott | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | William Tolson | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | John Forster | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | Robert Olroyd | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | John Asquith | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | Peregrine Corney | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | John Snowden | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | John Smith | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | William Ash | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | John Errington | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | Robert Atkins | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | William Colton | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | George Denham | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | Henry Watson | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | Richard Wilson | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | Ralph Rymer | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1663 | Charles Carre | Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot |
1678 | William Staley | First victim of the Popish Plot[39] |
1681-07-01 | Oliver Plunkett | last victim of the Popish Plot |
1685 | over 200 | Charged with treason following the Monmouth Rebellion, their remains were parboiled, tarred, and displayed on poles, trees and lampposts; only when James II conducted a progress through the area were they removed and buried[40] |
1788-02-16 | Robert Keon | Hanged, drawn, and quartered for murder in a private quarrel[41]
John and Henry Sheares Irish patriots The brothers were hanged on 14 July 1798, outside of Newgate Prison
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1803-09-20 | Robert Emmet | Hanged and then beheaded once dead[42] for high treason in the Irish Rebellion of 1803[43][44][45] |
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- ^ Henry Thomas Riley, Thomae Walsingham, Quondam Monachi S. Albani, Historia Anglicana. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863, Vol 1. p. 169 [1] "Deinde tractus, suspensus, et in quartas divisus est; et partes quatuor principalibus civitatibus Angliae sunt transmissae; caput ejus super pontem Londoniarum fixum est, versus partes respiciens Scoticanas."
- ^ Aslet, Clive. "Fobbing" in Villages of Britain : The Five Hundred Villages That Made the Countryside. Bloomsbury, 2010.
- ^ , Fobbing, Life and Landscape (Pheon Heritage in association with Thurrock Council Museum, 1997)
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- ^ Letters and Papers; Weir, Henry VIII, p. 454
- ^ Hamilton, Dakota L. (2005) [2004], "Thomas, William (d. 1554)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.), Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27242, retrieved 20 August 2010 (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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- ^ Holinshed 1808, pp. 915–916:
John Ballard a preest, and first persuader of Babington to these odious treasons, was laid aloue vpon an hurdell, and six others two and two in like sort, all drawne from Tower hill through the citie of London, untu a field at the vpper end of Holborne, hard by the high waie side to saint Giles in the field, where was erected a scaffold for their execution, and a paire of gallows of extraordinarie hight ... and although the thousands were thought (and indeed so seemed) to be numberlesse: yet somewhat to note the huge multitude, there were by computation able men enow to giue battell to a strong enimie ... On the first daie the traitors were placed vpon the scaffold, that the one might behold the reward of his fellowes treason. Ballard the preest, who was the first brocher of this treason, was the first that was hanged, who being cut downe (according to judgement) was dismembred, his bellie ript up, his bowels and traitorous heart taken out and throwne into the fire, his head also (seuered from his shoulders) was set on a short stake vpon the top of the gallows, and the trunke of his bodie quartered and imbrued in his owne bloud, wherewith the executioners hands were bathed, and some of the standers by (but to their great loathing, as not able for their liues to auoid it, such was the throng) beesprinkled.
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