Sir Thomas Armstrong was an English Army officer and politician who was executed for treason.
An engraving of Armstrong
A True Account of the Apprehending of Sir Thomas Armstrong, printed at London, 1684
Engraving attributed to Jan Luyken depicting the execution of Sir Thomas Armstrong in 1684
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
Thomas Armstrong (English politician)
…imprisoned in the Tower of London by Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. Following his implication in the Rye House Plot in 1683, Armstrong was hanged, drawn and quartered for high treason. During the Interregnum Armstrong was a supporter of Charles II, participating in the plot to seize Chester Castle in 1655, and carrying…
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.