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" That the offender be drawn to the gallows, and not be carried or walk; though usually (by connivance, at length ripened by humanity into law) a sledge or hurdle is allowed, to preserve the offender from the extreme torment of being dragged on the ground... "
Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes - Page xxxi
by Johannes de Oxenedes - 1859 - 439 pages
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United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Volume 41, Page 1

Military art and science - 1843 - 662 pages
...terrible. The delinquent is to be drawn to the gallows, and not to be carried or walk, though usually a sledge or hurdle is allowed to preserve the offender from the extreme torment of beingdragged on the ground. He is to be hanged by the neck, and then cut down alive. His entrails are...
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