Cato Street and where it led
by admin on Jun.19, 2013, under Blog posts
The 1820 raid on Cato Street, which led to the last sentence of drawing and quartering in England.
Today I’m at Romancing the Past, blogging about the Cato Street conspirators, and why until 1814 British law was still condemning certain prisoners to have “your privy members be cut off, your bowels taken out and burnt in your view.”
