Fall Guy

Found guilty of High Treason by the Attorney General Sir Edward Coke who told the court that each of the condemned would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground. They were to be "put to death halfway between heaven and earth as unworthy of both". Their genitals would be cut off and burnt before their eyes, and their bowels and hearts removed. They would then be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of their bodies displayed so that they might become "prey for the fowls of the air".
Harsh.
Only one of the courtroom figures is represented by an actual person....

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