Francis Towneley
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Francis Towneley was an English Catholic and supporter of the exiled House of Stuart or Jacobite.
Towneley Hall in Towneley Park, Burnley
"Squire Ketch in Horrors", a pro-Jacobite satirical print of 1750. Executioner John Thrift is confronted by his Jacobite victims, including Lovat (front), Kilmarnock and Balmerino (immediately behind Lovat) and Towneley and Fletcher, their heads on spikes at the rear.
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
Francis Towneley
…was released. Towneley's reliance on his French commission was disallowed; he was tried on 13 July 1746, found guilty of treason and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered, although by then it was customary to ensure the condemned were dead before being eviscerated. He was executed at Kennington Common on 30 July, along…
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.