To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a penalty in England, Wales, Ireland and the United Kingdom for several crimes, but mainly for high treason. This method was abolished in 1870.

Date executed Name Notes3 October 1283Dafydd ap GruffyddThe last independent ruler of Wales, and the first prominent person to be executed in this mannerRishanger, William, 1250?–1312? and Henry T. Riley, Willelmi Rishanger, Quondam Monachi S. Albani, Et Quorundam Anonymorum, Chronica Et Annales, Regnantibus Henrico Tertio Et Edwardo Primo, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores (Rolls Series) 28.2, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865, p. 104 "David judicialiter condemnatus, tractus et suspensus est, visceribusque combustis, corpus capite truncatum, et in quatuor partes est divisum." (Also at Google Books)23 August 1305 William Wallace Treason in the Wars of Scottish Independence1318 Gilbert Middleton Rebellion and treason 3 March 1323 Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle Treason in the Wars of Scottish IndependenceHenry Thomas Riley, Thomae Walsingham, Quondam Monachi S. Albani, Historia Anglicana. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863, Vol 1. p. 169 "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."24 November 1326 Hugh Despenser the Younger For sodomy; contemporary accounts differ on whether he died from the full sentence of being hanged, drawn, and quartered 4 July 1381 Thomas Baker (Peasants' Revolt leader) Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' RevoltAslet, Clive. "Fobbing" in Villages of Britain : The Five Hundred Villages That Made the Countryside. Bloomsbury, 2010.Randal Bingley, Fobbing, Life and Landscape (Pheon Heritage in association with Thurrock Council Museum, 1997) 15 July 1381 John Ball Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt 1381–1382 John Buk Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' RevoltPowell, Edgar (1896). The Rising of 1381 in East Anglia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 1404665. p. 48 1381–1382 Richard de Leycester Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt 6 May 1382 John Wrawe Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' RevoltPowell, Edgar (1896). The Rising of 1381 in East Anglia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 1404665. p. 25 1388 Thomas Usk Accused of misleading King Richard II 1400 Thomas Blount Executed for plotting the overthrow of Henry IV of England in the Epiphany Rising 1401 Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan Allowed Owain Glyndŵr to escape capture, and therefore disemboweled and dismembered 1404 John Cerle Killed the Duke of Gloucester and therefore Johannes Cerle was hanged, drawn, and quarteredHaydon, Frank Scott, 1822–1887. Eulogium (historiarum Sive Temporis). London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1863. Vol 3 p. 402. . "Johannes Cerle tractus, suspensus, et vivus depositus, et tandem ductus Londoniae tractus ibidem et suspensus demum decollatus est atque in quartas divisus." 1459 William Overy Squire to James, Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire, leader of the Irish Lancastrians; Overy attempted to arrest Richard, Duke of York as a traitor to the (Lancastrian) King Henry VI but was arrested himself, tried before the Duke and hanged, drawn and quartered for treason, as the Duke of York was at the time calling himself Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and so an attack on his person was judged to be treason. 1539 Richard Whiting (abbot) The last Abbot of Glastonbury executed on Glastonbury Tor for treason, alongside two of his monks, John Thorne and Roger James who suffered the same fate. 1541 Francis Dereham Executed for "Succeeding the King in the Queen's affections" Letters and Papers; Weir, Henry VIII, p. 454 1550 Humphrey Arundell Executed for leading the Prayer Book RebellionNichols, John Gough (1852). Chronicles of the Grey friars of London. Camden Society, p. 65 1554 Thomas Wyatt the younger Sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered for Wyatt's rebellion, but the sentence was commuted to beheading May 1554 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 1581Edmund Campion One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales executed under anti-Catholic laws 5 July 1581 Matthew Lambert Miller, known as one of the Wexford Martyrs. 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. 1 December 1581 Alexander Briant Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and WalesSimpson, Richard. Edmund Campion: A Biography. New ed., ed., J. Hodges, 1896. p. 457. url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b55231?urlappend=%3Bseq=471 20 September 1586 Anthony Babington Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot 20 September 1586 John Ballard (Jesuit) Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot: 20 September 1586 Chidiock Tichborne Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot 20 September 1586 Henry Donn Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot 20 September 1586 Robert Barnewell Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot 20 September 1586 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, part of the second group which was required by Elizabeth I to hang until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering after public outcry at the horror of the drawing and quartering of 20 September 1586 1586 Charles Tilney Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quarteringFrancis Edwards, S.J., Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I. (Dublin: Four Courts, 2002), p. 164. 1586 Edward Jones Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering 1586 John Charnock Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering 1586 John Travers Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering 1586 Jerome Bellamy Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering 1586 Robert Gage Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering 3 November 1591 Brian na Múrtha Ó Ruairc Executed for rebellion against the crown, hung, drawn, and quartered 24 July 1594 John Boste Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales 1595 Roderigo Lopez English doctor executed for allegedly poisoning Elizabeth I. Later believed to be innocent. 7 June 1603 Valentine Thomas For plotting against Elizabeth I.Thomas M. McCoog, The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England (Brill, 2017), p. 68. 30 January 1606 Everard Digby For involvement in Gunpowder Plot 30 January 1606 Robert Wintour For involvement in Gunpowder Plot 30 January 1606 John Grant For involvement in Gunpowder Plot 30 January 1606 Thomas Bates For involvement in Gunpowder Plot 30 January 1606 Thomas Wintour For involvement in Gunpowder Plot 30 January 1606 Ambrose Rookwood For involvement in Gunpowder Plot 30 January 1606 Robert Keyes For involvement in Gunpowder Plot 30 January 1606 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". 28 August 1628 Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales 10 September 1641 Ambrose Barlow Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and WalesCamm, Bede (1907). "Ven. Edward Ambrose Barlow". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton. Retrieved 10 September 2013. 30 May 1643 George Bouchier For his activities in the English Civil War 30 May 1643 Robert Yeamans For his activities in the English Civil War 30 May 1643 Philip Powell For being a priest 1653 Felim O'Neill of Kinard Executed for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 28 June 1654John Southworth Cromwell ordered that surgeons sew the corpse back together so that it could be sent to Douai College for burial 7 July 1658 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 13 October 1660 Col. Thomas Harrison For regicide of Charles I 19 October 1660 Daniel Axtell For regicide of Charles I 1663 Thomas Oates Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood PlotDrake, 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. 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 CorneyExecuted for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot 1663 John SnowdenExecuted for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot 1663 John Smith Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot 1663 William AshExecuted 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 Plot18 January 1676 Joshua TefftUnlawfully fighting with Indians 1678 William Staley First victim of the Popish Plot1 July 1681 Oliver PlunkettLast victim of the Popish 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 II conducted a progress through the area were they removed and buried 16 February 1788 Robert Keon Hanged, drawn, and quartered for murder in a private quarrelJames Kelly "'That Damn'd Thing Called Honour'" Cork University Press 1995 pp194-196

John and Henry Sheares, Irish patriots, were hanged on 14 July 1798, outside of Newgate Prison1766Nicholas Sheehy An Irish Catholic Priest who was hanged, drawn and quartered for supposedly aiding the murder of John Bridges (though there are claims that Bridges survived)The Roman Catholic Church – Waterford County Museum Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine 20 September 1803 Robert Emmet Hanged and then beheaded once dead for high treason in the Irish Rebellion of 1803. He was also the most recent person to be executed in this way

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