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Private collection, illustration of the Hanging, drawing and quartering of Guy Fawkes. This print shows what happened to the Gunpowder Plotters of 1605. The punishment for treason was gruesome: the offender was dragged on hurdles through the streets to the execution-place, hanged, but taken down while still alive, castrated, disembowelled and cut into quarters.     Don't look too hard at Source 5 if you are squeamish.     Put some of the evidence you have found from these sources on to your Gallery Worksheet.