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" Wednesday next you be drawn from thence on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there hanged by the neck until you are dead. "
The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and Literary Journal - Page 452
1782
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 44

1782 - 682 pages
...introvert the evidence of James. you David Tyrie are to be led to gaol, and from thence are to be drawn upon a hurdle to the place of execution, and there...neck ; and being alive, are to be cut down, and your bowels taken out arid burned, and your head to be cut off, and your body divided into four quarters...
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American Illustrated Magazine, Volume 37

1894 - 792 pages
...severer form, sentence involving drawing and quartering directed that the offender should be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there hanged by the neck, but not until dead ; that he should be taken down again, and while yet alive his bowels should be taken...
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Corpus Juris Civilis. Institutiones

Thomas Cooper - 1812 - 748 pages
...for high treason, in all cases except counterfeiting the coin, is, that the offender shall be drawn to the place of execution, and there hanged by the neck and cut down alive ; that his entrails shall be taken out and burned, his head cut off, his body quartered,...
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Summary of the Criminal Law

Henry John Stephen - 1834 - 518 pages
...applies to males only,) the punishment of treason is to be as follows : — the traitor to be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there hanged by the neck until he be dead ; and afterwards his head shall be severed from the body, and the body divided into...
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The Provincial Justice, Or, Magistrate's Manual: Being a Complete Digest of ...

William Conway Keele - 1835 - 680 pages
...pleasure. 2 Haw. 3 ; but now, by the 3 W. 4. c. 4. the sentence is, that " such rson shall be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there hanged by the neck until such person be dead, and that erwards, the body of such person shall be dissected and anatozed."...
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Parliamentary Papers, Volume 19

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1839 - 572 pages
.... ^^ — [THE judgment of Death in the case of Treason is that the offender, if a male, be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there hanged by the neck until dead ; and that afterwards the head be severed from the body of such offender, and the body be...
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The Institutes of Justinian

Thomas Cooper - 1841 - 672 pages
...for high treason, in all cases except counterfeiting the coin, is, that the offender shall be drawn to the place of execution, and there hanged by the neck and cut down alive ; that his entrails shall be taken out and burned, his head cut off, his body quartered,...
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Letters from Van Dieman's Land: Written During Four Years Imprisonment for ...

Benjamin Wait - 1843 - 378 pages
...and there remain until the 25th of August, when, between the hours of 11 and 1, you shall be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there hanged by the nock, until you are dead, and your body shall be quartered. The Lord have mercy on your soul ! ! !...
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The Prisoners' Friend: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Criminal ..., Volume 1

1849 - 610 pages
...barbarous kind; one that would disgrace the darkest age: — "That you, Smith O'Brien, be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there hanged by the neck until you be dead, and thnt afterwards your head ¡hall be levered from your body, and your body tevered...
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The Journal of the Indian archipelago and eastern Asia (ed. by J.R ..., Volume 3

James Richardson Logan - 1849 - 914 pages
...the place from whence you came, and that on the morning of Wednesday next you be drawn from thence on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there hanged by the neck until you are dead. Your body will then be handed over to the surgeons for dissection, and your mangled...
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