In this week's Claire Chats video talk, I discuss the brutal penalty for the crime of high treason - hanging, drawing and quartering - and just what it entailed, as well as its history and famous people who suffered this awful end.
Apologies for the rather graphic descriptions!
Sources
- Disembowling at Southsea Common - https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/heritage/disembowling-at-southsea-common-1-2990983
- British Executions, David Tyrie - http://www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=8028&termRef=David%20Tyrie
- British Newspaper Archive - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1772-01-01/1798-12-31?newspapertitle=Hampshire%20Chronicle&page=43
- Southamptonshire (Hampshire) 1735 - 1799, Capital Punishment UK - http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hants.html
- 1782: David Tyrie, the last hanged, drawn, and quartered, Executed Today - http://www.executedtoday.com/2011/08/24/1782-david-tyrie-the-last-hanged-drawn-and-quartered/
- Hanging, Drawing and Quartering, Capital Punishment UK - http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hdq.html
- What It's Like To Be Drawn And Quartered - https://www.ranker.com/list/what-being-drawn-and-quartered-feels-like/amber-fua
- Drawing and Quartering, Encyclopaedia Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/topic/drawing-and-quartering