> .. the elders were read the sentence of their execution, for conspiracy, and for violating their treaties with the #Dutch. Then six #Japanese swordsmen were sent into the enclosure to carry out the sentence.. They were #beheaded and then #quartered. None of them resisted, although one.. was heard to say, in Dutch: “Sirs, have you no mercy then?”.. thirty- six elders were also beheaded and quartered. The severed heads and dismembered body parts were impaled on stakes.