Sir Hugh Spencer (Hugh Le Despenser) fastened to a ladder and disembowled alive in Hereford while a crowd of spectators gathers around a fire below the ladders. Coloured lithograph.

"Despenser was taken to Hereford. Outside the city he was stripped and then reclothed with his arms reversed, and he was crowned with stinging nettles. Condemned to death as a traitor, on 24 November 1326 he was drawn on a hurdle to the gallows, and then hanged from a height of 50 feet. Still alive, he was cut down and eviscerated before finally being beheaded. His head was displayed on London Bridge; his quarters were sent to Bristol, Dover, York, and Newcastle.'"--Oxford dictionary of national biography