From Telegraph.co.uk:
700 years on, a funeral is held for William Wallace
By Sally Pook
(Filed: 24/08/2005)
There was little of William Wallace to bury after he was strangled by hanging, released near death, drawn, quartered and beheaded.
His head was placed on a pike on London Bridge and his limbs displayed across Scotland to serve as a terrible warning.
Seven hundred years later, a symbolic funeral service was conducted for the Scottish rebel leader in London yesterday, close to his place of execution.
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Tied to horses and stripped naked, he was dragged for six miles through the city in 1305 to a site next to St Bartholomew's church in Smithfield, where he is commemorated by a plaque dedicated to his "immortal memory".
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Colin Hay, 32, a youth worker from Perth, who walked the death route from Westminster to Smithfield, said: "It was the easiest six miles of my life. I didn't feel it. We were walking for a purpose, in honour of Wallace."
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