Priest Edmund Campion, when sentenced to death, made the point that he was being executed for being a priest of the church that until recently was followed by everyone in England, and so in a way they were condemning their own ancestors. This would have got a few retweets in modern times, but the judge ordered him to be dragged through the streets by a horse, hung but taken down whilst still alive, and then have his genitals cut off and his entrails taken out and burned in front of him. So, you know. We weren’t great to Catholics.
