http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051105/wl_uk_afp/afplifestylebritain_051105211443
Happy Guy Fawkes Day, or if you prefer, Bonfire Night!
Happy Guy Fawkes Day, or if you prefer, Bonfire Night!
Guy Fawkes day!
- Thread starter arnisador
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Those Jesuits... never trust them, never will. 
Another more detailed account:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/monarchs_leaders/gunpowder_robinson_01.shtml
"....describing the traditional punishment for traitors: hanging, drawing and quartering. They would be hanged until half-dead, upon which their genitals would be cut off and burned in front of them. Still alive, their bowels and heart would be removed. Finally they would be decapitated and dismembered; their body parts would be publicly displayed, eaten by the birds as they decomposed."
The good old days, they're gone forever.
Another more detailed account:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/monarchs_leaders/gunpowder_robinson_01.shtml
"....describing the traditional punishment for traitors: hanging, drawing and quartering. They would be hanged until half-dead, upon which their genitals would be cut off and burned in front of them. Still alive, their bowels and heart would be removed. Finally they would be decapitated and dismembered; their body parts would be publicly displayed, eaten by the birds as they decomposed."
The good old days, they're gone forever.
