Everard Digby
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Sir Everard Digby was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Although he was raised in a Protestant household and married a Protestant, Di
Portrait of Digby
Guy Fawkes House, formerly known as the Red Lion, where Digby was installed on 4 November 1605
Print of members of the Gunpowder Plot being hanged, drawn and quartered
Hanged, drawn and quartered
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To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland. Convicted traitors were
Everard Digby
…to the Tower of London. Digby was tried on 27 January 1606. Despite an eloquent defence, he was found guilty of high treason, and three days later was hanged, drawn and quartered. The Digby family was of Leicestershire origin. Sir John Digby (d. 1269) served on two crusades, and, by 1418, Sir Everard "Greenleaf" Digby was Lord…
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse
As illustrated in Matthew Paris's Chronica Majora, William de Marisco is drawn to his execution behind a horse.
Edward I Longshanks, King of England (1272–1307)
Edward III, under whose rule the Treason Act 1351 was enacted. It defined in law what constituted high treason.