The evening before leaving Dorchester, I passed this religious martyrs memorial, and when I read the information there, I saw that some of the martyrs here had been Catholic priests and laymen put to death for their faith in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Have just read that this memorial stands on the old Gallows Hill execution place where the unfortunate victims were sometimes not only put to death by hanging but also drawn and quartered afterwards (sometimes while still being alive).
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