On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Monastery Library wrote:
> >
<Extremely long snip!>
> It [hanging, drawing, and quartering including removal emasculation]
> was a favourite treatment for those whom the (English) government
> liked to view as traitors (as well perhaps as some real ones)
> between ca 1550 and 1690. If the executioner, crowd or sherriff
> felt nice about it, they could leave you hanging till you were
> properly dead: but in theory the cutting up bit happened while you
> were still around to notice.
>
> Anselm Cramer OSB
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>
The first recorded imposition of hanging, drawing and quartering is
usually held to have been the execution of the Welsh prince David after
Edward I subdued Wales, in 1284. Whether emasculation was practiced on
that occasion is, however, not specified.
John Parsons
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