The executed people, especially when brutally for supposedly very serious crimes, would frequently not get a proper burial. Their bodies or various pieces of th

The executed people, especially when brutally for supposedly very serious crimes, would frequently not get a proper burial. Their bodies or various pieces of them were put on pikes and into cages for display (and consumption by birds, etc.), burnt (all the "witches" after extreme torture they were subjected to), sent to different places as a message, etc. An example of the numbers https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-killer-king-how-many-people-did-henry-viii-execute https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-killer-king-how-many-p... " It is estimated that during his 36 years of rule over England he executed up to 57,000 people, many of whom were either members of the clergy or ordinary citizens and nobles who had taken part in uprisings and protests up and down the country." And those crimes above sound like high treason (many of those uprisings/protests were about that English church split and Henry treated wrong position on it as a treason against him) which back then was "hang, drawn and quarter" punishable crime.