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See also:DRAWING AND QUARTERING , See also:part of the See also:penalty anciently ordained in See also:England for See also:treason. Until 187o the full See also:punishment for the See also:crime was that the See also:culprit be dragged on a See also:hurdle to the See also:place of See also:execution; that he be hanged by the See also:neck but not till he was dead; that he should be disembowelled or See also:drawn and his entrails burned before his eyes; that his See also:head be cut off and his See also:body divided into four parts or quartered. This brutal penalty was first inflicted in 1284 on the Welsh See also:prince See also:David, and on See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Wallace a few years later. In See also:Richard 111.'s reign one Collingbourne, for See also:writing the famous See also:couplet " The See also:Cat, the See also:Rat and Lovel the See also:Dog, See also:Rule all England under the Hog," was executed on See also:Tower See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill. See also:Stow says, " After having been hanged, he was cut down immediately and his entrails were then extracted and thrown into the See also:fire, and all this was so speedily done that when the executioners pulled out his See also:heart he spoke and said ` Jesus, Jesus." See also:Edward See also:Marcus See also:Despard and his six accomplices were in 1803 hanged, drawn and quartered for conspiring to assassinate See also:George III. The See also:sentence was last passed (though not carried out) upon the See also:Fenians See also:Burke and O'Brien in 1867. There is a tradition that See also:Harrison the See also:regicide, after being disembowelled, See also:rose and boxed the ears of the executioner.
DRAWING-See also:ROOM (a shortened See also:form of " with-drawing room," the longer form being usual in the 16th and 17th centuries), the See also:English name generally employed for a room used in a dwelling-See also:house for the reception of See also:company. It originated in the setting apart of such a room, as the more private and exclusive preserve of the ladies of the See also:household, to which they withdrew from the dining-room. The See also:term "drawing-room " is also used in a See also:special sense of the formal receptions or " courts " held by the See also:British See also:sovereign or his representative, at which ladies are presented, as distinguished from a " See also:levee," at which men are presented.
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