(Research):Norris, Brereton, Weston and Smeaton were ordered by the court to be hung, cut down, disemboweled, quartered and castrated. Anne's brother Lord Rochford, was sentenced to be burned and then beheaded. Later the king altered their sentence to decapitation by an axe, which was carried out.
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