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Executed after being imprisoned in the Tower of London for two years. Sir John Neville: 15 June 1541 Executed for treason for failing to report a planned rebellion. Leonard Grey: 28 July 1541 Lord Deputy of Ireland. Executed for treason after allegedly aiding his nephew Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare's escape to France. Francis Dereham
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
People executed by the Kingdom of England during the Tudor dynasty (1485–1603). ... People executed by Tudor England by hanging, drawing and quartering (1 C, 24 P)
The standard penalty for all those convicted of treason at the time was execution by being hanged, drawn and quartered. In the reign of Pope Gregory XIII (1572–85), authorisation was given for 63 recognised martyrs to have their relics honoured and pictures painted for Catholic devotions.
She was recaptured and executed for piracy by hanging in chains at the Execution Dock in Wapping. [4] Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, a powerful Irish lord; held in the Tower in 1526 and again in 1530, and again in 1534; he was executed in 1534 when his son "Silken Thomas" rebelled against the crown.
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1560 portrait by Hans Eworth. Anne Askew (sometimes spelled Ayscough or Ascue), married name Anne Kyme (1521 – 16 July 1546), [1] was an English writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who was condemned as a heretic during the reign of Henry VIII of England.
The site of the executions in the manorial park at Cheylesmore, just south of the city wall at the time, was known into the nineteenth century. But it was not until the early part of the twentieth century that public pressure for a monument led to a mayoral committee being formed in 1908, and the erection of the monument in 1910. [ 18 ]