Caption:
The execution of Sir Hugh Spencer (Despenser) in Hereford, 1326. He was bound on a high scaffold in the marketplace, hanged, castrated, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered. Illuminated panel of foliage and flowers. Handcoloured lithograph after an illuminated manuscript from Sir John Froissart's "Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV," George Routledge, London, 1868.