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Even casting the monarch’s horoscope was treasonous, and treason’s death sentence was hideous: women were burned alive, men were hanged, drawn, and quartered — hanged until almost dead, eviscerated while still alive, then chopped into pieces.

If seized, the men were to be hanged, drawn and quartered as traitors.

"He should be hanged, drawn and quartered!"

It is Ludwig van Beethoven’s turn to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.”

Even after his break from the pope, Henry, on the one hand, burned Protestants at the stake for heresy while, on the other hand, he condemned monks to be hanged, drawn and quartered for refusing to renounce papal supremacy.