farnley suspensus oxforddnb.com 1404665 disembowelling vpon tractus bouchier babington usk gruffydd plotters despenser 4539 partes odnb mayne llywelyn 1381 holinshed pontem tyldesley vivus thomae bap giue 4446 anglicana quartering 1586
who was the last person to be hanged drawn and quartered
List of people hanged , drawn and quartered - wikipedia List of people hanged , drawn and quartered The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger , as pictured in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse 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 1305 - 08 - 23 William Wallace Treason in the Wars of Scottish Independence 1323 Andrew Harclay , 1st Earl of Carlisle Treason in the Wars of Scottish Independence 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 . 1381 - 07 - 04 Thomas Baker ( Peasants ' Revolt leader ) Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants ' Revolt . 1381 - 07 - 15 John Ball Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants ' Revolt . 1381 - 1382 John Buk Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants ' Revolt 1381 - 1382 Richard de Leycester Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants ' Revolt 1382 - 05 - 6 John Wrawe Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants ' Revolt 1388 Thomas Usk Accused of misleading King Richard 1401 Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan Allowed Owain Glyndŵr to escape capture , and therefore disembowelled and dismembered . 1404 John Cerle Killed the Duke of Glovernia and therefore Johannes Cerle tractus , suspensus , et vivus depositus , et tandem ductus Londoniae tractus ibidem et suspensus demum decollatus est atque in quartas divisus . 1554 Thomas Wyatt the younger Sentenced to be hanged , drawn and quartered for Wyatt 's rebellion , but the sentence was commuted to beheading . 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 1577 Edmund Campion One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales executed under anti-Catholic laws 1581 - 12 - 01 Alexander Briant Catholic priest , one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales 1586 - 09 - 20 Anthony Babington Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot 1586 - 09 - 20 John Ballard ( Jesuit ) Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot 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 Public outcry at the horror of the drawing and quartering of Sept. 20th 1586 caused Elizabeth to order the second group to hang until `` quite dead '' before disembowelling and quartering . 1586 Charles Tilney Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot Hung until `` quite dead '' before disembowelling and quartering . 1586 Edward Jones Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot Hung until `` quite dead '' before disembowelling and quartering . 1586 John Charnock Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot Hung until `` quite dead '' before disembowelling and quartering . 1586 John Travers Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot Hung until `` quite dead '' before disembowelling and quartering . 1586 Jerome Bellamy Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot Hung until `` quite dead '' before disembowelling and quartering . 1586 Robert_Gage_ ( MP ) Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot Hung until `` quite dead '' before disembowelling and quartering . 1594 - 07 - 24 John Boste Catholic priest , one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales . 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 . His lifeless body was nevertheless drawn and quartered , and his body parts distributed to `` the four corners of the kingdom '' . 1628 - 08 - 28 Edmund_Arrowsmith Catholic priest , one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales 1641 - 09 - 10 Ambrose Barlow Catholic priest , one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales 1643 - 05 - 30 George Bouchier For his activities in the English Civil War 1643 - 05 - 30 Robert Yeamans For his activities in the English Civil War 1653 Felim O'Neill of Kinard Executed for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 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 . 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 . 1663 Thomas Oates Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot 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 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 conducted a progress through the area were they removed and buried . 1788 - 02 - 16 Robert Keon hanged , drawn , and quartered for murder in a private quarrel 1803 - 09 - 20 Robert Emmet convicted of high treason in the Irish Rebellion of 1803 . He was hanged and then beheaded once dead . References ( edit ) Notes Jump up ^ 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 . '' Jump up ^ Aslet , Clive . `` Fobbing '' in Villages of Britain : The Five Hundred Villages That Made the Countryside . Bloomsbury , 2010 . Jump up ^ Randal Bingley , Fobbing , Life and Landscape ( Pheon Heritage in association with Thurrock Council Museum , 1997 ) Jump up ^ Prescott , Andrew ( 2008 ) ( 2004 ) , `` Ball , John ( d . 1381 ) '' , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press , hosted at oxforddnb.com , doi : 10.1093 / ref : odnb / 1214 , retrieved 22 August 2010 , ( Subscription required ( help ) ) Jump up ^ Powell , Edgar ( 1896 ) . The Rising of 1381 in East Anglia . Cambridge , UK : Cambridge University Press . OCLC 1404665 . p. 48 ( 2 ) Jump up ^ Powell , Edgar ( 1896 ) . The Rising of 1381 in East Anglia . Cambridge , UK : Cambridge University Press . OCLC 1404665 . p. 48 ( 3 ) Jump up ^ Powell , Edgar ( 1896 ) . The Rising of 1381 in East Anglia . Cambridge , UK : Cambridge University Press . OCLC 1404665 . p. 25 ( 4 ) Jump up ^ Waldron , Ronald ( 2008 ) ( 2004 ) , `` Usk , Thomas ( c. 1354 -- 1388 ) '' , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press , hosted at oxforddnb.com , doi : 10.1093 / ref : odnb / 28030 , retrieved 22 August 2010 , ( Subscription required ( help ) ) Jump up ^ Steffan , Rhobert ap ( 2006 ) , Llywelyn Ap Gruffydd Fychan , bbc.co.uk , retrieved 22 August 2010 Jump up ^ Haydon , Frank Scott , 1822 - 1887 . Eulogium ( historiarum Sive Temporis ) . London : Longman , Brown , Green , Longmans , and Roberts , 1863 . Vol 3 p. 402 . ( 5 ) Jump up ^ Hamilton , Dakota L. ( 2005 ) ( 2004 ) , `` Thomas , William ( d . 1554 ) '' , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press , hosted at oxforddnb.com , doi : 10.1093 / ref : odnb / 27242 , retrieved 20 August 2010 , ( Subscription required ( help ) ) Jump up ^ Trudgian , Raymond Francis ( 2008 ) ( 2004 ) , `` Mayne , Cuthbert ( St Cuthbert Mayne ) ( bap. 1544 , d . 1577 ) '' , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press , hosted at oxforddnb.com , doi : 10.1093 / ref : odnb / 18440 , retrieved 19 August 2010 , ( Subscription required ( help ) ) Jump up ^ Graves , Michael A.R. ( 2008 ) ( 2004 ) , `` Campion , Edmund ( St Edmund Campion ) ( 1540 -- 1581 ) '' , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press , hosted at oxforddnb.com , doi : 10.1093 / ref : odnb / 4539 , retrieved 19 August 2010 , ( Subscription required ( help ) ) Jump up ^ Trudgian , Raymond Francis ( 2008 ) ( 2004 ) , `` Mayne , Cuthbert ( St Cuthbert Mayne ) ( bap. 1544 , d . 1577 ) '' , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press , hosted at oxforddnb.com , doi : 10.1093 / ref : odnb / 18440 , retrieved 19 August 2010 , ( Subscription required ( help ) ) Jump up ^ Graves , Michael A.R. ( 2008 ) ( 2004 ) , `` Campion , Edmund ( St Edmund Campion ) ( 1540 -- 1581 ) '' , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press , hosted at oxforddnb.com , doi : 10.1093 / ref : odnb / 4539 , retrieved 19 August 2010 , ( Subscription required ( help ) ) Jump up ^ Simpson , Richard . Edmund Campion : A Biography . New ed. , ed. , J. Hodges , 1896 . p. 457 . url = https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b55231?urlappend=%3Bseq=471 Jump up ^ Francis Edwards , S.J. , Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I. ( Dublin : Four Courts , 2002 ) , p. 164 . Jump up ^ 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 . Jump up ^ Francis Edwards , S.J. , Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I. ( Dublin : Four Courts , 2002 ) , p. 164 . Jump up ^ Francis Edwards , S.J. , Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I. ( Dublin : Four Courts , 2002 ) , p. 164 . Jump up ^ Francis Edwards , S.J. , Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I. ( Dublin : Four Courts , 2002 ) , p. 164 . Jump up ^ Francis Edwards , S.J. , Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I. ( Dublin : Four Courts , 2002 ) , p. 164 . Jump up ^ Francis Edwards , S.J. , Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I. ( Dublin : Four Courts , 2002 ) , p. 164 . Jump up ^ Francis Edwards , S.J. , Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I. ( Dublin : Four Courts , 2002 ) , p. 164 . Jump up ^ Francis Edwards , S.J. , Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I. ( Dublin : Four Courts , 2002 ) , p. 164 . Jump up ^ `` The Pursuit of John Boste '' , Catholic Records Society , 1908 Jump up ^ Duffy , Patrick . `` The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales '' , Catholic Ireland Jump up ^ Northcote Parkinson 1976 , pp. 91 -- 92 Jump up ^ Fraser 2005 , pp. 283 Jump up ^ Allen 1973 , p. 37 Jump up ^ Thompson 2008 , p. 102 Jump up ^ Guy Fawkes , York Museums Trust , retrieved 16 May 2010 Jump up ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Jump up ^ `` The Lancaster priest executed for his zeal '' , Catholic Herald , 26 August 2010 Jump up ^ Camm , Bede ( 1907 ) . `` Ven . Edward Ambrose Barlow '' . The Catholic Encyclopedia . Vol. 2 . New York : Robert Appleton . Retrieved 10 September 2013 . Jump up ^ `` Blessed Ambrose Barlow , O.S.B. '' St Ambrose Barlow Website . Archived from the original on 4 August 2003 . Retrieved 10 September 2013 . Jump up ^ Tyldesley , PJ . `` Sir Thomas Tyldesley 1612 -- 1651 '' . Tyldesley Family History . Retrieved 2008 - 12 - 13 . Jump up ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cooper , Thompson ( 1886 ) . `` Bouchier , George '' . In Stephen , Leslie . Dictionary of National Biography. 6 . London : Smith , Elder & Co. p. 4 . Jump up ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Pollard , Albert Frederick ( 1900 ) . `` Yeamans , Robert '' . In Lee , Sidney . Dictionary of National Biography. 63 . London : Smith , Elder & Co. p. 68 . Jump up ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro99.shtml Jump up ^ http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/SirFelimONeill.php Jump up ^ Morrill , John ( 2004 ) , `` Southworth , John ( St John Southworth ) ( 1592 -- 1654 ) '' , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press , hosted at oxforddnb.com , doi : 10.1093 / ref : odnb / 67460 , retrieved 19 August 2010 , ( Subscription required ( help ) ) Jump up ^ Stephen , Leslie , ed. ( 1885 ) . `` Ashton , Edward '' . Dictionary of National Biography. 2 . London : Smith , Elder & Co . Jump up ^ Drake , Francis . Eboracum : Or , the History and Antiquities of the City of York , from Its Origin to This Time . Together with an Account of the Ainsty , or County of the Same , and a Description and History of the Cathedral Church , from Its First Foundation to the Present Year . Illustrated with Seventeen Copper - Plates. in Two Volumes . Printed for T. Wilson and R. Spence , High - Ousegate , 1788 , vol 1 . p. 60 . ( 6 ) Jump up ^ Hopper , Andrew ( June 2002 ) , `` The Farnley Wood Plot and the Memory of the Civil Wars in Yorkshire '' , The Historical Journal , Cambridge University Press , hosted at jstor.org , 45 ( 2 ) : 281 , 296 -- 297 , doi : 10.1017 / s0018246x02002406 , JSTOR 3133646 , ( Subscription required ( help ) ) Jump up ^ Zook 1999 , p. 141 Jump up ^ James Kelly `` ' That Damn 'd Thing Called Honour ' '' Cork University Press 1995 pp194 - 196 Jump up ^ Brooke - Tyrrell , Alma ( 1983 ) . `` Focus on Thomas Street '' . Dublin Historical Record . 36 ( 3 ) : 107 -- 117 . JSTOR 30100607 . Jump up ^ Dawson , T. ( 1971 ) . `` Between the Steps '' . Dublin Historical Record . 24 ( 3 ) : 65 -- 75 . JSTOR 30103977 . Jump up ^ Cobbett , William ; Jardine , David ( 1820 ) . `` Cobbett 's complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason : And other crimes and misdemeanor from the earliest period to the present time ... From the ninth year of the reign of King Henry , the Second , A.D. 1163 , to ... \ George IV , A.D. 1820 ) '' . Jump up ^ `` Irish Historical Mysteries : The Grave of Robert Emmet '' . Retrieved 7 May 2013 . Bibliography Feilden , Henry St. Clair ( 2009 ) ( 1910 ) , A Short Constitutional History of England , Read Books , ISBN 1 - 4446 - 9107 - 4 Fraser , Antonia ( 2005 ) ( 1996 ) , The Gunpowder Plot , London : Phoenix , ISBN 0 - 7538 - 1401 - 3 Haynes , Alan ( 2005 ) ( 1994 ) , The Gunpowder Plot : Faith in Rebellion , Sparkford , England : Hayes and Sutton , ISBN 0 - 7509 - 4215 - 0 Holinshed , Raphael ( 1808 ) , Chronicles of England , Scotland and Ireland , 4 , London : Johnson Jesse , John Heneage ( 1847 ) , Literary and historical memorials of London , 2 , Bentley Northcote Parkinson , C. ( 1976 ) , Gunpowder Treason and Plot , Weidenfeld and Nicolson , ISBN 0 - 297 - 77224 - 4 Oman , Charles William Chadwick ( 1906 ) , The Great Revolt of 1381 , Oxford : Clarendon Press Wormald , Patrick ( 2001 ) ( 1999 ) , The Making of English Law : King Alfred to the Twelfth Century , Legislation and Its Limits , Oxford : Wiley - Blackwell , ISBN 0 - 631 - 22740 - 7 Zook , Melinda S. ( 1999 ) , Radical whigs and conspiratorial politics in late Stuart England , Penn State Press , ISBN 0 - 271 - 01856 - 9 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_hanged,_drawn_and_quartered&oldid=852008205 '' Categories : Execution methods Torture English criminal law Medieval English law Lists of executed people People executed by the United Kingdom by hanging People executed by the United Kingdom by hanging , drawing and quartering Hidden categories : Pages containing links to subscription - only content Articles incorporating DNB text with Wikisource reference Articles incorporating Cite DNB template Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 26 July 2018 , at 00 : 55 ( UTC ) . Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply . By using this site , you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy . Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation , Inc. , a non-profit organization . About Wikipedia