During the High Middle Ages those in England guilty of treason were punished in a variety of ways, including drawing and hanging.
These and other executions, such as those of Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle,[REF] and Hugh Despenser the Younger,[REF] which each occurred during King Edward II's reign, happened when acts of treason in England, and their punishments, were not clearly defined in common law.