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Me too. I have very fond memories of Freddie 'Parrot Face' Davies from my childhood
Me too, just looked him up and he is still around aged 82
I think the drawn part described the lines they drew to cut open the body and draw out the entrails....?
Me too. All it has done is remind me what a good writer Winston Graham was.
He was a real historic character so his fate is sealed unless the writers really go off on a tangent and change historical facts.
Sounds plausible, but Wiki tells us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered
Further down on that link, it says:
The use of the word drawn, as in "to draw", has caused a degree of confusion. One of the Oxford English Dictionary's definitions of draw is "to draw out the viscera or intestines of; to disembowel (a fowl, etc. before cooking, a traitor or other criminal after hanging)", but this is followed by "in many cases of executions it is uncertain whether this, or [to drag (a criminal) at a horse's tail, or on a hurdle or the like, to the place of execution; formerly a legal punishment of high treason], is meant. The presumption is that where drawn is mentioned after hanged, the sense is as here."[31] Historian Ram Sharan Sharma arrived at the same conclusion: "Where, as in the popular hung, drawn and quartered [use] (meaning facetiously, of a person, completely disposed of), drawn follows hanged or hung, it is to be referred to as the disembowelling of the traitor."[32] Sharma is not the only historian to support this viewpoint as the phrase, "hanged until dead before being drawn and quartered", occurs in a number of relevant secondary publications[33][34] The historian and author Ian Mortimer disagrees. In an essay published on his website, he writes that the separate mention of evisceration is a relatively modern device, and that while it certainly took place on many occasions, the presumption that drawing means to disembowel is spurious. Instead, drawing (as a method of transportation) may be mentioned after hanging because it was a supplementary part of the execution.[35]
So if historians can't agree, I guess the rest of us can't either.
No, you are not wrong! Drake is a real drip. Originally played by Kevin McNally, and he wasn't a drip back then!
You are right - the drawing was the removal of the entrails.
They've changed enough historical facts by putting him in Poldark - and surely the real bloke wasn't such an eejit?
I remember him too! Did he have a catchphrase?
They seem obsessed with peaky blinders. Poldark is being shunted about yet draws a healthy 5 million plus with catchup.
" I'm sick, sick, sick up to here " , spoken with a spluttery lisp while he raised his hand to his hat.
Aye, the inner organs were removed, i.e. drawn out.
I like this actor but they've made the character less interesting. The young Geoffrey Charles was better written, he was right up there with Aunt Agatha. I miss the little whippersnapper.
Winston Graham did put the Poldarks in historical facts - it's called historical fiction - even more so in the later books. All other historical fiction writers do it too.
And, yes, Ned Despard was an eejit.
From Wiki:
(1) "Following the war Despard was appointed Superintendent of what became British Honduras. He was recalled to London in 1790 after questions were raised about his conduct. Despard soon found himself in jail for debt. He later took up revolutionary politics, becoming involved with the United Britons movement, and was executed for high treason for his part in the failed Despard Plot."
(2) "In 1798 Despard was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Irish Rebellion. Habeas Corpus had been suspended in 1794, and Despard was held without trial for nearly three years in a succession of prisons, notably Coldbath Fields Prison in Clerkenwell, until he was released without charge in 1801."
(3) "In late 1802 he was named by government informers and disaffected soldiers as a member of a conspiracy engaged in a plot to seize the Tower of London and Bank of England and assassinate King George III to encourage further uprisings. Only one week before the plot was to take place, Despard and his co-conspirators were arrested in the Oakley Arms pub in Lambeth on suspicion of plotting an uprising. The evidence was thin but Despard was arrested and prosecuted by Attorney General Spencer Perceval, before Lord Ellenborough, the Lord Chief Justice. Despite a dramatic appearance by Lord Nelson as character witness on his behalf, Despard was found guilty by the jury of high treason, and sentenced, with six of his fellow-conspirators (John Wood and John Francis, both privates in the army, carpenter Thomas Broughton, shoemaker James Sedgwick Wratton, slater Arthur Graham, and John Macnamara),[6] to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
Prior to execution the sentence was commuted to simple hanging and beheading, amid fears that the draconian punishment might spark public dissent. Despard was executed on the roof of the gatehouse at Horsemonger Lane Gaol, in front of a crowd of at least 20,000 spectators, on 21 February 1803." (Donald Trump would have been delighted and bragging about a crowd that size.)
If it's ending next week, they're maybe not too bothered about ratings, as they won't make any difference to anything now.
I don't think it was Ross who said that, it was the defence barrister, wasn't it?