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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 March 2025. Medieval punishment for high treason 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 ...
The Act for Punishment of Sturdy Vagabonds and Beggars (27 Hen. 8. c. 25) was an act passed in Tudor England by Henry VIII. It is part of the Tudor Poor Laws. It was the earliest English Poor Law to provide for structured collections for the poor. The 1536 act provided that “sturdy” vagabonds should be set to work after being punished. [1]
Convict Date of Execution Details Edmund Dudley: 17 August 1510 Member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons, and President of King's Council under Henry VII.
Hanged, drawn and quartered in Wexford, Ireland as punishment for aiding the escape of James Eustace, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass and several Catholic priests from Ireland, and for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy. [20] [21] 1 December 1581: Alexander Briant: Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales [22] 20 September 1586
The Vagabonds Act 1530 (22 Hen. 8.c. 12) was an act passed under Henry VIII and is a part of the Tudor Poor Laws of England. In full, it was entitled "An Act directing how aged, poor and impotent Persons, compelled to live by Alms, shall be ordered; and how Vagabonds and Beggars shall be punished."
Stocks, unlike the pillory or pranger, restrain only the feet.. Stocks are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation.The use of stocks is seen as early as Ancient Greece, where they are described as being in use in Solon's law code.
A special case is the tradition of the Roman fustuarium, continued in forms of running the gauntlet, where the culprit receives their punishment from the hands of the comrades gravely harmed by their crime, e.g. for failing in vital sentinel duty or stealing from a ship's limited food supply.
Tudor London saw the only two instances of an execution method not used at any other time in England- boiling alive, a fate reserved for poisoners. Both executions took place at Smithfield. [114] The pillory was a common punishment for low-level offences, with a pillory being erected at Cheapside, among other places. [115]