Hanged, But Not Disemboweled

Rick, as usual, is too modest about what I assume is an ancestor (collateral, not direct!), the Rev. Henry Garnett, S.J., the superior of the Jesuit mission to England during the Guy Fawkes affair, who seems to have known about the plot, did not support it, but remained silent because his knowledge was sealed by the confessional. In his NYRB essay, Eamon Duffy says: "Inevitably, [Garnett] was executed for treason, though the spectators seem to have recognized a man of integrity and distinction, and he was, unusually, allowed to hang till he was dead before the prescribed disemboweling began."

-- Mark