Glad you like them, they're my 'knight' lights 😉 I hope the kids weren't too disturbed by the video. Just a note, your shout out will be coming up in a few weeks after filming some armour content with my son in the UK. Julie will be editing it shortly 👍🏻
@@thehistorysquad no they were fine. Excellent looking forward to surprising them with the shout out. They have no idea it's coming. Looking forward to your next film.
My friend jack showed me your videos and I absolutely loved your channel, you made my nephews really interested in history as soon as I showed them, bless you my friend, very good channel.
I feel that if we still had Brutal forms of execution for the most horrific crimes like pre meditated murder or child @buse it would reduce these crimes greatly.
@@jdk690 yea, I did. People who viciously R@pe and murder innocent people don’t deserve to be put up with free food, free bed, free healthcare, for 40 plus years until They die. Especially off of normal hardworking peoples taxes. Guess you enjoy paying money to feed ped0s but that doesn’t sit well with me.
The barbaric execution was not the final act of the battle of the English against the Establishment a battle that, as we can see from current events, is still in progress.
Kevin this is Gold, Never really grasped how Brutal it was back then until i started watching your videos..Great History lessons my Friend!! My Father and I watch your vids all the time!
I didn’t know the executions were this sadistic and brutal, I can’t imagine this being publicly displayed, that’s just so horrible to imagine, someone literally being cut apart while they’re alive after being “hanged”, I’d like to know who these executioners were, they were pretty numb to cutting people open alive.
I have seen videos that prove you wrong,in some places it is still just as brutal. Amputation of arms and legs,flaying,burning alive...etc. I have seen it all.
@@10191927 dan Carlin does a good 4 hour walk thru on the history of crime and punishment on his channel hard-core history. You might find it interesting cause towards the end he talks for a bit about the life of a professional executioner, they were highly well paid but were actually social outcasts. It was interesting to listen to.
Brutality is alive and well even today. Humans are incapable of changing. It’s how we got to the top of the food chain in the first place. Now that we’ve conquered all other species we can only destroy each other under the guise of freedom, religion, national commercial interests and of course power, greed and corruption. Isis uses medieval and creatively cruel killing methods and Middle Eastern countries still carry out brutal executions. The US and UK weren’t shy either during the illegal war in Iraq. NATO is still keen on sniffing out yet another conflict in Ukraine. Madness, all of it.
@@peter2814 Aye, man doesn't change at his core Civilization, is just a venire we wear when times are good or when it suites us for some other reason. The men who are capable of the greatest good are capable of the greatest evil.
What I noticed about my fellow man, especially in these last two years, they seem to thrive on the misfortune of their own through virtue signalling towards those that want them harm.
Damn. I didn’t realize being “hanged drawn and quartered” was so gruesome. I never truly understood that people were mutilated alive during it. I always just imagined it as a hanging and nothing else
@@jonathanwilliams1065 Pulled Apart by Horses is an alternative rock band from Leeds, England 😆 The execution method of being pulled apart by horses was known as dismemberment or disruption.
Sometimes they were allowed to hang until dead before being cut down. Indeed by the late 17th century and the 18th century, this was normal. The Jesuit priest Henry Morse was hanged in London in 1645. The executioner allowed him to hang for a while and a child broke through the crowd and pulled on one of Morse's legs as he was hanging. By the time the executioner beat the child off, Morse was dead and so did not feel the quartering part of the penalty. (Morse was canonised by the Catholic Church, along with 39 others, in 1970.) My guess is that the regicides were targeted for particularly painful executions as they were considered especially heinous.
I didn't really get what "drawn and quartered" was either until about eighth grade when I read the account of the execution of a British traitor (I think it was William Wallace, but I read the story so long ago, I'm probably wrong). First, the dude was thrown out of the window of a two-story building down to the cobblestone street below. He survived the fall, so they did it again. He still survived. Then they hung him, then eviserated him, and after he was dead, pulled his body apart using horses. Of course, the crowd was cheering this on. The body parts were sent to various parts of England as a warning to other traitors. I mean, yeah...the guy was a traitor. But did they really have to do him like that? Jeez.
@@jaydubya3698 if it was Wallace he wasn’t a traitor, he just defended his rightful king and country against the English king who decided to resolve a succession dispute by proclaiming himself the king
Keep up the great work Kevin! This is one of my favourite history channels on youtube right now, and you deserve so many more subscribers. Thank you so much for putting your time and effort into these videos; more people need to see them!
Hello Kevin, I just wanted to say that I have never really been interested in history before the American Revolution, but you have changed that! I'm absolutely fascinated by your videos. I can't get enough of your excellent content, please keep up the fantastic work sir!
Americans really need to learn more about English History because our origins are English. The Revolution never would have been possible without having an example with the Roundheads.
@@jaypoole8056 Americans really need to learn more about world history, after all the Americans came from all over the world and still do, they are far to insular for their own good 😎🏹🙏
@@blindarchershaunhenderson3769 Disagree. The nation was English and both the official language, constitution, legal framework, and institutions both secular and religious, as well as the ethos that Americans still espouse are deeply rooted in England around this time period.
Did you hear of the arrestation of Charles the Bad? In 1356 Jean II, the king of France at the time, stormed the castle where Charles was having a feast. He was only arrested but 4 of his accomplices were sentenced to be decapitated. Only they didn't have a professional at hand. So they offered pardon to a murderer from the local prison if he accepted to play the role of executioner. The corpses were apparently in pretty bad shape even for an execution since the headsman was an amateur. As always, good video Kevin 👍
I recall a WWII veteran telling the story of how a flamethrower in his platoon was taken alive by Japanese forces in Iwo Jima. As hated as they were, flametroopers were the primary targets on the battlefield when spotted but to take one alive? What an opportunity, the veteran recalls how they were unable to rescue him and thus could hear him screaming in agony behind enemy lines...throughout the entire night. Hearing that story was jarring as it leaves much to the imagination, but a good humbling of our modern imagination is learning about tortures and executions from much, much longer ago. I think back to when I learned about medieval torture devices and the harrowing creativeness behind some of them! Truly a world we pampered 21st century people could hardly grasp. P.s. Remind me to add medieval helmet light fixtures to my shopping list, those are amazing!
Hello Modest Banana, one of my latest patrons! Such a great comment and yes, the creativity of man to inflict such pain and suffering is truly mind blowing. My 'knight lights' btw, were made by an armourer friend some years ago. Glad you like them 👍🏻
And it's hard to really blame them either, from their perspective he's a man whose job it is to burn them alive. It's hard to imagine much mercy to be had outside the jurisdiction of the law.
As someone who's seen my own stomach and most of my small intestines burst out of my abdomen (13 inch wound ripping open after major surgery due to sepsis, and a photo to prove it), the shear shock of what's happening is just so overwhelming you can barely comprehend what's going on, but needless to say I screamed all the way back into emergency surgery.
I stopped everything that I was doing at work when I spotted this video on my homepage and took a break to watch it. It did not disappoint. Great storytelling as usual Kevin.
It always amazes me how many people complain about how bad things are in todays society. But we live in some of the most peaceful of times in history. We are failing our children by not teaching them true history. Another great video.
My family's ancestor, Capt Benjamin Merrill, was hanged, drawn and quartered by the British in 1771, for refusing to pay taxes. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Merrill) We've largely gotten over it, thank you.
Very interesting. I was therefore moved to read up on this as being hanged, drawn and quartered for tax evasion seemed a bit extreme, even by the standards of the 1770s. What Captain Merrill was actually executed for was High Treason and not because he refused to pay his taxes. He took part in and actually led (!) an armed rebellion (the Regulators) who sought, through armed insurrection, to defeat Governor Tryon of North Carolina at the Battle of Alamance. However, he made a serious miscalculation in the size of the force that he would actually be up against. He was defeated, captured and ultimately given the prescribed sentence at the time for High Treason.
Capt Merrill and others were incensed due to the governor raising taxes to build a new governor’s residence- now called ‘Tryon’s Palace’ in Raleigh. Capt Merrill and the Orange Rebellion were the precursor to the American Revolution. A very brave man who died with honor.
Im glad you put the real horrors to the light. Historians tend to paint a more glamorous image of what went on . Our history is so interesting although usually very macabre. Great video well done.
Horrific I can’t imagine going to see such a thing and for that kind of barbarism to happen in England I thought that kind of thing only happened in Mexico and the Mayans 🤮
Hi Kevin, on one of your videos a couple weeks ago I replied to a message you sent and I'm not sure if you saw it, in the comment I said something along the lines of wanting to see a biography video of you when you tell some stories and what you've done/where you've been in life, the life of Kevin Hicks - archer and soldier! Me and my mates watch your videos and talk about them, getting excited when you post new ones and we all want to know more about yourself we're huge fans of the channel, glad The History Squad is finally getting some well deserved attention :)
Hi there, I'm so sorry your message must have got bogged down, I really do try to read them all. I really appreciate your support of the channel and will continue to occasionally post some personal stories and experiences, but I'm not sure my life quite warrants a biography, though I'm flattered you'd think so. All the best to you & your mates 👍
@@thehistorysquad thanks that means a lot, we all think you're awesome and don't worry about not getting back to me you have loads of stuff to get through I know you wouldn't have ignored me or anything like that, looking forward to the next :)
I’m Dutch and I’m learning so much about British history from you Kevin! Your videos are fascinating, and you guys have such a rich history. Is it possible you might cover Robert Devereux the Earl of Essex in the future? I find him an intriguing man.
Yes, he is for sure and I might just do that. I'll certainly add him to my list. Another favourite period of mine is the war of the Spanish succession, so stand by ..... (my list is very long though 😉)
I find the stories regarding victim's reactions to being Drawn & Quartered, greatly exaggerated. Once the genitalia is removed, the clock is ticking before you go into shock and eventually bleed out. (The loss of blood is on an epic scale). By the time you're hacked open and your entrails are removed, its 'lights out' and you are in no shape to sit up and slap your executioner's face, or yell "FREEEDOM!"
There was nothing treacherous about Charles II executing the regicides. The Indemnity and Oblivion Act, passed by Parliament, pardoned everyone but regicides and those who committed acts without the license of Charles I or Parliament during the war.
Considering people gathered together as if going to a fair for lynchings in the south in the US - even made postcards - it's not surprising to me that people would view this as entertainment. The biographer of Pepys left that part out of the bio that I read.
Throughout history people have thought of truly sick, sadistic, slow ways to torture those they wished to make an example of, impaling, stoning, crucifixion, the brazen bull, and this. Capital punishment is always wrong as far as I’m concerned, but to do something so simultaneously excruciating and degrading to another human being is reprehensible, but Charles the Second did many awful things, so this is hardly surprising. Great video by the way!
You know I'd only ever heard about Thomas Harrison in passing, always kind of one of those background characters amidst all the battles and bloodshed. So it was shocking to hear that not only was he a Staffordshire man, and also a rather dashing and battle hardened one at that and a bit of a major player in parliamentary camp it seems. But furthermore and much to my delight, the church he is buried in is naught but a stones throw from where I work, about a minute walk up the hill, it's a lovely Church is St Giles. I'm very invested in the folklore, history, characters and stories of my home county so it was a delight to hear about the good major general through your channel. An absolutely fascinating local character and suitable addition to the staffie rogues gallery hahaha.
If you want to go deeper into the fate of the regicides, read “The King’s Revenge: Charles II and the greatest manhunt in British history” by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh. Pivotal in the return of the vengeful king was General Monck, a soldier of vast experience in wars at home and abroad. He fought on both sides in the Civil War but was a shrewd political animal and, if not for his intervention, the new Charles may well have lived out his days in exile.
Let that be a lesson for all. Never trust a tyrant or politicians word, for they will say anything to get what they want and then stab you in the back. Great video Kevin. Please take care.
Wouldn't ya think people would have learned that by now after 7,ooo years? That's what truly fascinates me. People still actually show up and cheer for politicians. Youd think after all of this time there'd be no one there to greet them, cheer for them, applaud them or even vote for them. Truly amazing.
Greetings once again from nova Scotia, thank you for another great film, I very much appreciate how you can put into perspective, what would be dry facts and numbers, I truly respect your ability to teach about horrible events, with class and decorum, well done good sir, very well done. Thanks again for your time and talent, be safe, be well, and as always best regards Arthur
On the side of the Hanged Drawn and Quartered pub on Tower Hill is a quote from Samuel Pepys, who witnessed the execution of Harrison. "He was looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition".
Hey Kevin, I’ve been watching your videos for about 5 months now and I want to say the content is absolutely incredible. Thank you for all the wonderful and fascinating historic stories you share, they truly are beloved. I hope you have a lovely summer my friend.
Kings and queens are in general a bad lot, reveling in power and doing anything to anyone in order to retain their power. Chuck the Second was a slime bag, a trait carried to perfection by the current Chuck, who would have no difficulty whatever in sentencing his opponents to that same ordeal if he could get away with it.
Poor ode lad , he never deserved that . If only we had men of their calibre now , this next overthrow of despots would be so much easier lol . Cracking vlog as ever my ode .
Yikes... People were different back in the day. To watch a man getting struck to death was probably a cool story, for the day, to pass on to your friends, neighbours and children. Case in point of why we should be much more thankful for what we have today, in our day to day lives.
Thanks, really interesting and sad at the same time. I worked at the Wallace collection for some year's. We had a gallery attendant who never wanted to work when the Sealed Knot Society held their meetings there. His ancestor has been the Sgt at arms who had signed Charles's l death warrant.
Slapped the executioner! I can see him saying, "You've buggered this part up lad! Let's see if you can get the next part right." He was an officer and a gentleman after all.
Hi Kevin, I'd like to ask you about arrow spine during the 100 years war. I believe they were making thousands of arrows and I really don't think the arrows were matched to a specific type of bow since there was a plethora of different draw weights being used in combat. So, is the arrow spine that important?
There is no evidence they measured spine. There's a chance they weight matched. Seems to me that later 18th/19th century European archers as well as traditional Korean and Japanese archers use weight matched arrows, not necessarily spine matched. I imagine it was a bit of trial and error on getting arrows to fly well. Some Mary Rose arrows have odd profiles that are almost hourglass shapes. Its been hypothesized this could be men shaving down their arrows to spine match in some way. Spine does matter less the heavier the bows get. Spine is usually measured in deflection. So a shaft suitable for a 50lb bow may have a deflection of .500". A 100lb bow might need a spine of .200". A bow of 150lb maybe .150". So you see, the heavier the bows get, the closer the spine values required become. Making it a bit less critical to get absolutely right. I imagine they were much more concerned with making arrows stiff enough for any bow, rather than optimal for any particular weight. There would have been variation in bows as well, some would have shot considerably harder than others, regardless of draw weight. Hopefully that makes sense.
@@dgriswold93 I've been thinking a lot about this lately. I shoot 50lbs and I make my own arrows out of cane or using the wood I have around. I never measured spine and never had any issues with it.
@@mauricioruiz9021 Well don't get me wrong, spine definitely matters for accuracy. You just don't need to get super technical to effectively make arrows fly well. There is a difference between the thousands of arrows create to be shot once or twice at a good distance and someone's personal set. I'm sure professional archers would spend lots of time purchasing/making or adjusting their arrows to fit their specific needs. A solider would not happily go into battle without sighting in their weapon to the best of their ability.
Hi Mauricio, the arrow logistics film has raised lots of questions including some about weight and spining, so I'm going to cover it in a film very soon. 👍🏻 Thanks to DG for his input.
Wowwwww!!!! Great sconces!!! Me likey!!! Thanks for enlightening us about our grisly past. It is important to remember how violent humanity was and strive to prevent that from happening again, lest we devolve into a murderous people, and live in fear.
Dear mr. Hicks! Thank you for the interesting ventury into the history! Would you be so kindly to think on making a video to a story of Sir Arthur Aston, a Royalist captain which was clubbed to death by the Roundheads with his own (made of wood) leg? Sorry about the Horrible Histories vibe here... *stupid death, stupid death, they're funny 'cuz they're true* ... Also, did you thought on the video about the New Model Army short video about the Original Redcoats? To think on this, the Roundheads had the Original Red Army that cutted off a royalty's head. Insert here "eat this Lenin, we've killed a monarch even before it was cool" joke here. P.S. Excuse me, but I think that I've seen once a chupakabra-like creature in a typical Cavalier outfit that seems to massacring the Parlamentarian soldiers on a 17th century political cartoon. Have you ever seen it? I just wondering what the heck that thing was.
Yes, they used mythological animals in a lot of their propaganda in the 17th Century, but I don't know what that particular one was. I will be covering the English Civil War in the future for sure 👍🏻
When Charles II wrote to Parliament in 1660, saying that he wouldn't take revenge, he made it clear that those who signed his father's death warrant were the exception. Thomas Harrison fought well for his side, but unfortunately that side wasn't the King's
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Well, there are vile humans around to that have committed awful crimes, maybe if they knew this fate could await them, then they may think twice before committing such acts? I'm not suggesting that we should revert to such barbarism, just making the point. Always be careful what you sign, I wonder if Thomas Harrison did? 🤔
God be blessed & Good riddance to Harrison regardless of legal quibbles and deathly tickles . . . True justice was served. Have good ancestral family reasons for this sentiment.
Hmmmmm I think you've rather whitewashed Harrison's role in the brutal and repressive military dictatorship of the Commonwealth. And was his trial any less just than the kangaroo court that tried Charles I? That had equally determined its verdict before the hearing began. Under the circumstances and the mores of the time (and surely it is by contemporary standards that these things must be judged), I think that Chares II was remarkably restrained by only pursuing the actual regicides who signed the death warrant. But fully respect that you are coming at this from a "roundhead" perspective.....I'll just go and don my lace collar and feathery hat! All best.
I rarely get emotional over old cases, but even his actions of not running when most would were so honourable it brought a tear to my eye how he was betrayed by his own nation. When i think of the psychology behind him trembling and then saying he was excited, he was probably terrified but wanted to go bravely and with dignity so he didn't allow them to call him a coward... Our ancestors were barbaric...
And people complain about todays western democracies… Also how could anyone want to bring back “ royalty “ , monarchs , kings , queens , that could do whatever they wanted to their subjects ..
This should be the punishment for any US politician that proposes, supports, or votes for any piece of legislation that attempts to infringe upon our Constitutional Rights (especially our 2nd Amendment rights).
Serves him right, the British people did not want their king executed, and Cromwell was about as popular as a rash, hence the reformation that was wildly supported.
I LOVE those lamps! On another note.. what a horrifying way to be executed! Seems to me brutality was a method of imposing law and order, it has a high deterrence factor.
Interesting, but no really a surprise that England was such a dictatorship. The royalist judge would be biased against a parliamentary enemy. Punishment was of course draconian to the extreme. The accepted narrative, and reminiscent of Guy Fawkes' execution.
Not sure your medical knowledge is correct. Once your testicles etc are cut off you would bleed to death is around 3 -4 minutes, unconscious within 2 minutes, this blood loss combined with his abdomen being opened,entrails cut out, he would heave been dead by the time his heart was removed, regardless of what was said at the time, which was most likely exaggerated for the sensation effect
English civil was better term War of the Three Crowns The brutality of this is often quoted why the defendants of the Eureka Stockade in Victoria were found not guilty as it would have been the penalty to be inflicted. Not something the colonists where willing to put up with
In the ancient Siamese court preceeding Thailand, a coup against a reigning monarch was always followed by the complete execution of all his family members--even babies, those that ran away were hunted down. It was done to precisely avert something like the English story from happening.
Hey if somebody beheaded my father I would probably want to exact some type of revenge as well on the people that signed his death warrant. I think it’s just natural for people to feel this way.
Ok. I CANT GET OVER HOW COOL THOSE HELMET LIGHTS ARE.
Haha, my knight lights 😉
@@thehistorysquad OMG why didn't I think of "knight light" thats so clever.
@@thehistorysquadbrilliant
DEUS VULT! ⚔️
As always excellent content. Really informative.
Those lights WOW.
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Glad you like them, they're my 'knight' lights 😉
I hope the kids weren't too disturbed by the video.
Just a note, your shout out will be coming up in a few weeks after filming some armour content with my son in the UK. Julie will be editing it shortly 👍🏻
@@thehistorysquad no they were fine. Excellent looking forward to surprising them with the shout out. They have no idea it's coming.
Looking forward to your next film.
My friend jack showed me your videos and I absolutely loved your channel, you made my nephews really interested in history as soon as I showed them, bless you my friend, very good channel.
Awesome! Thank you & welcome aboard Joshy 👍🏻
"This is actually awful" is why I love this channel XD
I feel that if we still had Brutal forms of execution for the most horrific crimes like pre meditated murder or child @buse it would reduce these crimes greatly.
Feeling is not knowing. Do some research into capital punishment.
@@jdk690 yea, I did. People who viciously R@pe and murder innocent people don’t deserve to be put up with free food, free bed, free healthcare, for 40 plus years until
They die. Especially off of normal hardworking peoples taxes. Guess you enjoy paying money to feed ped0s but that doesn’t sit well with me.
Where did you get the wall lights from?
I had an armourer make them for me years ago. It's jus the visor with a straight bar across the back that hooks onto a couple of screws. Cool huh?
The barbaric execution was not the final act of the battle of the English against the Establishment a battle that, as we can see from current events, is still in progress.
I think people are unaware of how barbaric our history is, it’s good that channels like this remind of what really took place.
You can't compare modern punishment methods with those of 500 years ago.
@@williamegler8771 sure you can. 500 years ago was also "modern"
It was BRUTAL for a reason, to DETER people from turning TRAITOR!!!!!
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Kevin this is Gold, Never really grasped how Brutal it was back then until i started watching your videos..Great History lessons my Friend!! My Father and I watch your vids all the time!
Ah, that's so kind, I'm glad you like the channel. Thanks 👍🏻
I didn’t know the executions were this sadistic and brutal, I can’t imagine this being publicly displayed, that’s just so horrible to imagine, someone literally being cut apart while they’re alive after being “hanged”, I’d like to know who these executioners were, they were pretty numb to cutting people open alive.
I have seen videos that prove you wrong,in some places it is still just as brutal. Amputation of arms and legs,flaying,burning alive...etc. I have seen it all.
I dont know how they dont die immediately?
@@10191927 dan Carlin does a good 4 hour walk thru on the history of crime and punishment on his channel hard-core history. You might find it interesting cause towards the end he talks for a bit about the life of a professional executioner, they were highly well paid but were actually social outcasts. It was interesting to listen to.
That was such a brutal time. I feel so much pity for anyone who had to undergo that punishment
Brutality is alive and well even today. Humans are incapable of changing. It’s how we got to the top of the food chain in the first place. Now that we’ve conquered all other species we can only destroy each other under the guise of freedom, religion, national commercial interests and of course power, greed and corruption. Isis uses medieval and creatively cruel killing methods and Middle Eastern countries still carry out brutal executions. The US and UK weren’t shy either during the illegal war in Iraq. NATO is still keen on sniffing out yet another conflict in Ukraine. Madness, all of it.
@@peter2814 Aye, man doesn't change at his core Civilization, is just a venire we wear when times are good or when it suites us for some other reason.
The men who are capable of the greatest good are capable of the greatest evil.
@@peter2814 We were ahead of a lot of countries, even centuries ago though.
@@peter2814 yes, all political power unfortunately rests on a foundation of brute force.
What I noticed about my fellow man, especially in these last two years, they seem to thrive on the misfortune of their own through virtue signalling towards those that want them harm.
Damn. I didn’t realize being “hanged drawn and quartered” was so gruesome. I never truly understood that people were mutilated alive during it. I always just imagined it as a hanging and nothing else
I always thought it was hanging and being pulled apart by horses
@@jonathanwilliams1065 Pulled Apart by Horses is an alternative rock band from Leeds, England 😆 The execution method of being pulled apart by horses was known as dismemberment or disruption.
Sometimes they were allowed to hang until dead before being cut down. Indeed by the late 17th century and the 18th century, this was normal. The Jesuit priest Henry Morse was hanged in London in 1645. The executioner allowed him to hang for a while and a child broke through the crowd and pulled on one of Morse's legs as he was hanging. By the time the executioner beat the child off, Morse was dead and so did not feel the quartering part of the penalty. (Morse was canonised by the Catholic Church, along with 39 others, in 1970.) My guess is that the regicides were targeted for particularly painful executions as they were considered especially heinous.
I didn't really get what "drawn and quartered" was either until about eighth grade when I read the account of the execution of a British traitor (I think it was William Wallace, but I read the story so long ago, I'm probably wrong). First, the dude was thrown out of the window of a two-story building down to the cobblestone street below. He survived the fall, so they did it again. He still survived. Then they hung him, then eviserated him, and after he was dead, pulled his body apart using horses. Of course, the crowd was cheering this on. The body parts were sent to various parts of England as a warning to other traitors.
I mean, yeah...the guy was a traitor. But did they really have to do him like that? Jeez.
@@jaydubya3698 if it was Wallace he wasn’t a traitor, he just defended his rightful king and country against the English king who decided to resolve a succession dispute by proclaiming himself the king
Keep up the great work Kevin! This is one of my favourite history channels on youtube right now, and you deserve so many more subscribers. Thank you so much for putting your time and effort into these videos; more people need to see them!
Thanks very much, I appreciate that!
Great wall lights!
Hello Kevin, I just wanted to say that I have never really been interested in history before the American Revolution, but you have changed that! I'm absolutely fascinated by your videos. I can't get enough of your excellent content, please keep up the fantastic work sir!
Americans really need to learn more about English History because our origins are English. The Revolution never would have been possible without having an example with the Roundheads.
And if you want some history and cooking from right before the Revolution I also recommend Townsend's. Good stuff there from the 18th century
@@jaypoole8056 Americans really need to learn more about world history, after all the Americans came from all over the world and still do, they are far to insular for their own good 😎🏹🙏
@@blindarchershaunhenderson3769 Disagree. The nation was English and both the official language, constitution, legal framework, and institutions both secular and religious, as well as the ethos that Americans still espouse are deeply rooted in England around this time period.
Wow, thank you. I will 👍🏻
I love your channel
Did you hear of the arrestation of Charles the Bad? In 1356 Jean II, the king of France at the time, stormed the castle where Charles was having a feast. He was only arrested but 4 of his accomplices were sentenced to be decapitated. Only they didn't have a professional at hand. So they offered pardon to a murderer from the local prison if he accepted to play the role of executioner. The corpses were apparently in pretty bad shape even for an execution since the headsman was an amateur. As always, good video Kevin 👍
Cheers Arthur, yes I've heard of that one and it's an incredible story. I'll maybe tell it one day, thanks 👍🏻
Excellent as always. Really enjoying your retelling of history
"I can't get my head around the fact that people watched these executions and thought it was wonderful"
Yep. No TV
True crimes is one of the most popular right now.
I recall a WWII veteran telling the story of how a flamethrower in his platoon was taken alive by Japanese forces in Iwo Jima. As hated as they were, flametroopers were the primary targets on the battlefield when spotted but to take one alive? What an opportunity, the veteran recalls how they were unable to rescue him and thus could hear him screaming in agony behind enemy lines...throughout the entire night.
Hearing that story was jarring as it leaves much to the imagination, but a good humbling of our modern imagination is learning about tortures and executions from much, much longer ago. I think back to when I learned about medieval torture devices and the harrowing creativeness behind some of them! Truly a world we pampered 21st century people could hardly grasp.
P.s.
Remind me to add medieval helmet light fixtures to my shopping list, those are amazing!
Hello Modest Banana, one of my latest patrons! Such a great comment and yes, the creativity of man to inflict such pain and suffering is truly mind blowing.
My 'knight lights' btw, were made by an armourer friend some years ago. Glad you like them 👍🏻
And it's hard to really blame them either, from their perspective he's a man whose job it is to burn them alive. It's hard to imagine much mercy to be had outside the jurisdiction of the law.
Easily one of the best history channels on RUclips. Keep up the terrific work, Kevin and team!
Wow, thanks! We will 👍🏻
As someone who's seen my own stomach and most of my small intestines burst out of my abdomen (13 inch wound ripping open after major surgery due to sepsis, and a photo to prove it), the shear shock of what's happening is just so overwhelming you can barely comprehend what's going on, but needless to say I screamed all the way back into emergency surgery.
Oh my goodness, I can't imagine!!
I stopped everything that I was doing at work when I spotted this video on my homepage and took a break to watch it. It did not disappoint. Great storytelling as usual Kevin.
That is awesome! I hope you didn't get into trouble 😉
@@thehistorysquad no I did not, it was a success!
It always amazes me how many people complain about how bad things are in todays society. But we live in some of the most peaceful of times in history. We are failing our children by not teaching them true history. Another great video.
Maybe the peace is the issue. As people we are basically the same. And now the beasts have been tamed. But we have not.
Well said, and thank you 👍🏻
My family's ancestor, Capt Benjamin Merrill, was hanged, drawn and quartered by the British in 1771, for refusing to pay taxes.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Merrill)
We've largely gotten over it, thank you.
😳🤣
Very interesting. I was therefore moved to read up on this as being hanged, drawn and quartered for tax evasion seemed a bit extreme, even by the standards of the 1770s.
What Captain Merrill was actually executed for was High Treason and not because he refused to pay his taxes. He took part in and actually led (!) an armed rebellion (the Regulators) who sought, through armed insurrection, to defeat Governor Tryon of North Carolina at the Battle of Alamance. However, he made a serious miscalculation in the size of the force that he would actually be up against. He was defeated, captured and ultimately given the prescribed sentence at the time for High Treason.
Capt Merrill and others were incensed due to the governor raising taxes to build a new governor’s residence- now called ‘Tryon’s Palace’ in Raleigh.
Capt Merrill and the Orange Rebellion were the precursor to the American Revolution. A very brave man who died with honor.
@@ke4gbe A very interesting piece of history. Thanks for sharing.
Pay Your taxes, Man, for Christs sake!
Well done. Never understand how folks think history is boring.
Im glad you put the real horrors to the light. Historians tend to paint a more glamorous image of what went on . Our history is so interesting although usually very macabre. Great video well done.
Glad you enjoyed it Kelvin, thanks 👍🏻
Thank you for the history lesson my friend, I surely would not have ever learned this in my schooling, may GOD bless you.
Horrific I can’t imagine going to see such a thing and for that kind of barbarism to happen in England I thought that kind of thing only happened in Mexico and the Mayans 🤮
No, it happened all over the world. 👍🏻
Hi Kevin, on one of your videos a couple weeks ago I replied to a message you sent and I'm not sure if you saw it, in the comment I said something along the lines of wanting to see a biography video of you when you tell some stories and what you've done/where you've been in life, the life of Kevin Hicks - archer and soldier! Me and my mates watch your videos and talk about them, getting excited when you post new ones and we all want to know more about yourself we're huge fans of the channel, glad The History Squad is finally getting some well deserved attention :)
Hi there, I'm so sorry your message must have got bogged down, I really do try to read them all.
I really appreciate your support of the channel and will continue to occasionally post some personal stories and experiences, but I'm not sure my life quite warrants a biography, though I'm flattered you'd think so. All the best to you & your mates 👍
@@thehistorysquad thanks that means a lot, we all think you're awesome and don't worry about not getting back to me you have loads of stuff to get through I know you wouldn't have ignored me or anything like that, looking forward to the next :)
I’m Dutch and I’m learning so much about British history from you Kevin! Your videos are fascinating, and you guys have such a rich history. Is it possible you might cover Robert Devereux the Earl of Essex in the future? I find him an intriguing man.
Yes, he is for sure and I might just do that. I'll certainly add him to my list. Another favourite period of mine is the war of the Spanish succession, so stand by ..... (my list is very long though 😉)
Which Earl of Essex did you mean? Elizabeth 1's favourite?
Hello Dutch do you have the Moneh????
@@purachinachinchin goddamn PINKERTONS!
I find the stories regarding victim's reactions to being Drawn & Quartered, greatly exaggerated. Once the genitalia is removed, the clock is ticking before you go into shock and eventually bleed out. (The loss of blood is on an epic scale). By the time you're hacked open and your entrails are removed, its 'lights out' and you are in no shape to sit up and slap your executioner's face, or yell "FREEEDOM!"
There was nothing treacherous about Charles II executing the regicides. The Indemnity and Oblivion Act, passed by Parliament, pardoned everyone but regicides and those who committed acts without the license of Charles I or Parliament during the war.
Considering people gathered together as if going to a fair for lynchings in the south in the US - even made postcards - it's not surprising to me that people would view this as entertainment.
The biographer of Pepys left that part out of the bio that I read.
ME: Grabs some breakfast, sits down, chooses this video to watch.
"Oh, that's gruesome!"
*Continues eating breakfast*
Love those helmet light shades and that's a nice Bonsai, thank you for the video Kevin.
You're welcome 👍🏻
Okay, this is pure RUclips gold. I'll have too binge watch your stuff now. You're a great storyteller, I'd subscribe twice if I could 👍
😜 Thanks Daniel, there's plenty on here for you to catch up with and lots more to come. 👍🏻
I need those lamps
The story makes me hungry. Im gonna be a quartered chicken that is not yelling but has that fiery taste i love.
Throughout history people have thought of truly sick, sadistic, slow ways to torture those they wished to make an example of, impaling, stoning, crucifixion, the brazen bull, and this. Capital punishment is always wrong as far as I’m concerned, but to do something so simultaneously excruciating and degrading to another human being is reprehensible, but Charles the Second did many awful things, so this is hardly surprising. Great video by the way!
Thanks and yes, I totally agree 👍🏻
judges yelling to prevent defense, sounds like current day America :(
Not gonna lie, there are some plenty of wicked people who deserve this form of death sentence,( e.g. pedophiles)
You know I'd only ever heard about Thomas Harrison in passing, always kind of one of those background characters amidst all the battles and bloodshed. So it was shocking to hear that not only was he a Staffordshire man, and also a rather dashing and battle hardened one at that and a bit of a major player in parliamentary camp it seems. But furthermore and much to my delight, the church he is buried in is naught but a stones throw from where I work, about a minute walk up the hill, it's a lovely Church is St Giles. I'm very invested in the folklore, history, characters and stories of my home county so it was a delight to hear about the good major general through your channel. An absolutely fascinating local character and suitable addition to the staffie rogues gallery hahaha.
I had no idea an execution could be this brutal, holy crap
If you want to go deeper into the fate of the regicides, read
“The King’s Revenge: Charles II and the greatest manhunt in British history” by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh.
Pivotal in the return of the vengeful king was General Monck, a soldier of vast experience in wars at home and abroad. He fought on both sides in the Civil War but was a shrewd political animal and, if not for his intervention, the new Charles may well have lived out his days in exile.
Yes, it's a great book and a great recommendation, thanks Henry 👍🏻
Let's hope if there is a hell, then the people committing this against him are burning.
Love the wall lamps
Let that be a lesson for all. Never trust a tyrant or politicians word, for they will say anything to get what they want and then stab you in the back. Great video Kevin. Please take care.
Cheers buddy, will do 👍
Wouldn't ya think people would have learned that by now after 7,ooo years? That's what truly fascinates me. People still actually show up and cheer for politicians. Youd think after all of this time there'd be no one there to greet them, cheer for them, applaud them or even vote for them. Truly amazing.
Greetings once again from nova Scotia, thank you for another great film, I very much appreciate how you can put into perspective, what would be dry facts and numbers, I truly respect your ability to teach about horrible events, with class and decorum, well done good sir, very well done. Thanks again for your time and talent, be safe, be well, and as always best regards Arthur
On the side of the Hanged Drawn and Quartered pub on Tower Hill is a quote from Samuel Pepys, who witnessed the execution of Harrison.
"He was looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition".
Another gruesome story told superbly by kevin
Hey Kevin, I’ve been watching your videos for about 5 months now and I want to say the content is absolutely incredible. Thank you for all the wonderful and fascinating historic stories you share, they truly are beloved.
I hope you have a lovely summer my friend.
How lovely Dylan, thank you, I really appreciate that!
Wow. That is absolutely criminal.
The poor poor man. I’m really enjoying your channel! Thanks so much. More medieval surgery please 🙂
I'm working on it 👍🏻
i get the feeling mr hicks is a bit of a round head
So the Brits have seen this for a while but were shocked at Aztec sacrifices? Oh the irony!
Yeah, that's for sure 👍🏻
You are a fantastic storyteller Kevin
Kings and queens are in general a bad lot, reveling in power and doing anything to anyone in order to retain their power. Chuck the Second was a slime bag, a trait carried to perfection by the current Chuck, who would have no difficulty whatever in sentencing his opponents to that same ordeal if he could get away with it.
Poor ode lad , he never deserved that . If only we had men of their calibre now , this next overthrow of despots would be so much easier lol .
Cracking vlog as ever my ode .
😜 he was indeed. Cheers Patrick 👍🏻
Yikes... People were different back in the day. To watch a man getting struck to death was probably a cool story, for the day, to pass on to your friends, neighbours and children. Case in point of why we should be much more thankful for what we have today, in our day to day lives.
We just like our violence less visceral. True crimes are popular for a reason
@@als3022 True, true. I'm not denying that.
Thanks, really interesting and sad at the same time.
I worked at the Wallace collection for some year's. We had a gallery attendant who never wanted to work when the Sealed Knot Society held their meetings there. His ancestor has been the Sgt at arms who had signed Charles's l death warrant.
Slapped the executioner! I can see him saying, "You've buggered this part up lad! Let's see if you can get the next part right." He was an officer and a gentleman after all.
🤣 nice one Phillip
I don't know if enjoyed is the proper word, but it was an excellent video.
A grim story, but a story that must be told .
It was a horrific way to die!
He looked like Oliver Cromwell
Really good content mate. Learnt more from these videos than I ever did at school
Cheers
Glad to hear it! 👍🏻
Well done again my friend and teacher. Absolutely love the Sugarloaf helmet lights you have. Wonderful idea!!
Ah, yes, my knight lights 👍🏻. Cheers!
Hi Kevin, I'd like to ask you about arrow spine during the 100 years war. I believe they were making thousands of arrows and I really don't think the arrows were matched to a specific type of bow since there was a plethora of different draw weights being used in combat. So, is the arrow spine that important?
There is no evidence they measured spine. There's a chance they weight matched. Seems to me that later 18th/19th century European archers as well as traditional Korean and Japanese archers use weight matched arrows, not necessarily spine matched. I imagine it was a bit of trial and error on getting arrows to fly well. Some Mary Rose arrows have odd profiles that are almost hourglass shapes. Its been hypothesized this could be men shaving down their arrows to spine match in some way.
Spine does matter less the heavier the bows get. Spine is usually measured in deflection. So a shaft suitable for a 50lb bow may have a deflection of .500". A 100lb bow might need a spine of .200". A bow of 150lb maybe .150". So you see, the heavier the bows get, the closer the spine values required become. Making it a bit less critical to get absolutely right. I imagine they were much more concerned with making arrows stiff enough for any bow, rather than optimal for any particular weight. There would have been variation in bows as well, some would have shot considerably harder than others, regardless of draw weight. Hopefully that makes sense.
@@dgriswold93 I've been thinking a lot about this lately. I shoot 50lbs and I make my own arrows out of cane or using the wood I have around. I never measured spine and never had any issues with it.
@@mauricioruiz9021 Well don't get me wrong, spine definitely matters for accuracy. You just don't need to get super technical to effectively make arrows fly well. There is a difference between the thousands of arrows create to be shot once or twice at a good distance and someone's personal set. I'm sure professional archers would spend lots of time purchasing/making or adjusting their arrows to fit their specific needs. A solider would not happily go into battle without sighting in their weapon to the best of their ability.
Hi Mauricio, the arrow logistics film has raised lots of questions including some about weight and spining, so I'm going to cover it in a film very soon. 👍🏻
Thanks to DG for his input.
@@thehistorysquad thx looking forward to it
Drawn & Quartered...only white men could think up something like that. I'm truly ashamed of my european ancestry :(
Wowwwww!!!!
Great sconces!!!
Me likey!!!
Thanks for enlightening us about our grisly past.
It is important to remember how violent humanity was and strive to prevent that from happening again, lest we devolve into a murderous people, and live in fear.
Kevin, I absolutely LOVE those helmet sconces behind you. If i were a criminal I'd definitely steal those! Lol
Dear mr. Hicks!
Thank you for the interesting ventury into the history!
Would you be so kindly to think on making a video to a story of Sir Arthur Aston, a Royalist captain which was clubbed to death by the Roundheads with his own (made of wood) leg? Sorry about the Horrible Histories vibe here... *stupid death, stupid death, they're funny 'cuz they're true* ...
Also, did you thought on the video about the New Model Army short video about the Original Redcoats? To think on this, the Roundheads had the Original Red Army that cutted off a royalty's head. Insert here "eat this Lenin, we've killed a monarch even before it was cool" joke here.
P.S.
Excuse me, but I think that I've seen once a chupakabra-like creature in a typical Cavalier outfit that seems to massacring the Parlamentarian soldiers on a 17th century political cartoon. Have you ever seen it? I just wondering what the heck that thing was.
Yes, they used mythological animals in a lot of their propaganda in the 17th Century, but I don't know what that particular one was.
I will be covering the English Civil War in the future for sure 👍🏻
Hi Kevin, I'm not really up on my English history, so I don't remember what happened to Buckingham.
1:45 - Can't think of anything happening in the U.S. that is remotely not completely and totally just shy of being not dissimilar.
When Charles II wrote to Parliament in 1660, saying that he wouldn't take revenge, he made it clear that those who signed his father's death warrant were the exception.
Thomas Harrison fought well for his side, but unfortunately that side wasn't the King's
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Well, there are vile humans around to that have committed awful crimes, maybe if they knew this fate could await them, then they may think twice before committing such acts? I'm not suggesting that we should revert to such barbarism, just making the point. Always be careful what you sign, I wonder if Thomas Harrison did? 🤔
God be blessed & Good riddance to Harrison regardless of legal quibbles and deathly tickles . . . True justice was served. Have good ancestral family reasons for this sentiment.
HANGED, dawn & quartered surely? Excuse my pedantry😁. Very interesting thank you
Hmmmmm I think you've rather whitewashed Harrison's role in the brutal and repressive military dictatorship of the Commonwealth. And was his trial any less just than the kangaroo court that tried Charles I? That had equally determined its verdict before the hearing began. Under the circumstances and the mores of the time (and surely it is by contemporary standards that these things must be judged), I think that Chares II was remarkably restrained by only pursuing the actual regicides who signed the death warrant. But fully respect that you are coming at this from a "roundhead" perspective.....I'll just go and don my lace collar and feathery hat! All best.
If I remember correctly, they would splash ice water on the individual to keep them conscious. Horrible.
I rarely get emotional over old cases, but even his actions of not running when most would were so honourable it brought a tear to my eye how he was betrayed by his own nation. When i think of the psychology behind him trembling and then saying he was excited, he was probably terrified but wanted to go bravely and with dignity so he didn't allow them to call him a coward... Our ancestors were barbaric...
And people complain about todays western democracies…
Also how could anyone want to bring back “ royalty “ , monarchs , kings , queens , that could do whatever they wanted to their subjects ..
That bureau behind you would make a nice project for another RUclips channel, Mayfield Restorations!
What a miscarriage of justice. Perhaps it’s telling that when Charles II himself died he was buried “without any pomp”?
This should be the punishment for any US politician that proposes, supports, or votes for any piece of legislation that attempts to infringe upon our Constitutional Rights (especially our 2nd Amendment rights).
Don't let the simple jumper/background combo fool you - when one of the background implements goes missing, it's about to get grim.
Serves him right, the British people did not want their king executed, and Cromwell was
about as popular as a rash, hence the reformation that was wildly supported.
I LOVE those lamps! On another note.. what a horrifying way to be executed! Seems to me brutality was a method of imposing law and order, it has a high deterrence factor.
Hanged, not hung ? The title is written hanged, but Kevin Hicks says "hung". Please make up your mind !
"Great" Britain...
Interesting, but no really a surprise that England was such a dictatorship. The royalist judge would be biased against a parliamentary enemy. Punishment was of course draconian to the extreme. The accepted narrative, and reminiscent of Guy Fawkes' execution.
You can imagine what it must have been like, what a descriptive account of this gruesome execution. Wow
Not sure your medical knowledge is correct. Once your testicles etc are cut off you would bleed to death is around 3 -4 minutes, unconscious within 2 minutes, this blood loss combined with his abdomen being opened,entrails cut out, he would heave been dead by the time his heart was removed, regardless of what was said at the time, which was most likely exaggerated for the sensation effect
English civil was better term War of the Three Crowns The brutality of this is often quoted why the defendants of the Eureka Stockade in Victoria were found not guilty as it would have been the penalty to be inflicted. Not something the colonists where willing to put up with
In the ancient Siamese court preceeding Thailand, a coup against a reigning monarch was always followed by the complete execution of all his family members--even babies, those that ran away were hunted down. It was done to precisely avert something like the English story from happening.
Sounds like this was prosecuted in the Southern District of New York. ='[.]'=
Hey if somebody beheaded my father I would probably want to exact some type of revenge as well on the people that signed his death warrant. I think it’s just natural for people to feel this way.