Richard Rumbold may have been hanged first, in Edinburgh but not til he was dead. Even though grievously wounded from his last battle, he was cut down while still living and drawn and quarterd with his four limbs sent down to England to be nailed on the gates of four different towns, with his head presumably sent on pike somewhere else. His response on receiving sentence was to announce after the words of a prior religious traitor was to wish he had enough limbs for every town in England. This may have been the source for Nathan Hale's later wish, in a similar vein, whether he said himself or had it attributed to him. Both were brave men indeed.