Sir William Wallace

As any Scottish nationalist will tell you, it was on August 23 1305 that the Scottish hero Sir William Wallace was dragged six miles through the streets by a horse to the City of London's Smithfield market. In front of a baying mob he was hanged, then, while barely still alive, drawn and quartered before being beheaded. But this afternoon, exactly 700 years ago since those horrific scenes, London hosted far kinder proceedings for Wallace with a "symbolic funeral" service in Smithfield which had an empty coffin as its centrepiece.
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