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Updated: June 4, 2025
He had brought into use a little steel thumbscrew which gave such exquisite torment that it had wrung confessions even out of men on whom His Majesty's favourite boot had been tried in vain. But it was well known that even barbarity was not so sure a way to the heart of James as apostasy.
"I'm willing to wager that he knows a lot about Lee and Jackson," said Warner, "but the days of the rack and the thumbscrew passed long ago, and there is no way to make him tell." "No," said Dick, "but we ought to find out for ourselves." Nevertheless, they discovered nothing.
By questioning this boy that we have in gaol, by gaoling this Lady Katharine why, we shall put her to the thumbscrews! by gaol and by thumbscrew, we shall gar her to set her hand to another make of confession. Then you may go to the King's Highness. 'Nick Throckmorton, Cromwell said, 'Winchester hath to-night the King's ear....
And if words avail not, his plan is always the same: Clap a similar thumbscrew, pressure equitably calculated, on the Catholics of Prussia; these can complain to their Popes and Jesuit Dignitaries: these are under thumbscrew till the Protestant pressure be removed. Which always did rectify the matter in a little time.
And then they came to the torture chamber, of which they had already heard from Ordgar, son of Haga, and saw the seat of judgment, so often occupied by him who had now passed to his dread account; they beheld the rack, the brazier, the thumbscrew, and shuddered.
Ephraim writhed, with attentive eyes upon his mother; he was like an executioner turning an emotional thumbscrew on her. But Deborah Thayer's emotions sometimes presented steel surfaces. "You can have a pain, then," said she. "I ain't goin' to let you go to ruin because you ain't well, not if I know it. You've got to mind, sick or well, an' you might jest as well know it.
The vagabond knaves had already been put to the torture in my brother's presence, but they had confessed nothing of their guilt; inasmuch, indeed, as in our dungeon there were none other instruments of torture than the rack, the thumbscrew, and scourges needful for the Bamberg torture, and a Pomeranian cap, made to crush the head somewhat; but in Nuremberg there was a store, less mild and of more active effect.
Peckham, whose board and lodging, pray?" The door opened before Silas Peckham could answer, and Mr. Bernard walked into the parlor. Helen was holding the bill in her hand, looking as any woman ought to look who has been at once wronged and insulted. "The last turn of the thumbscrew!" said Mr. Bernard to himself. "What is it, Helen? You look troubled." She handed him the account.
A little device worked by a thumbscrew varied the angle in proportion to the depth. "Now," he was instructed, "draw in and color as well as you know how everything you see in the field of your glass. You've got all day to do it in, so there's no need for hurry.
There were other tortures, too a kind of iron cage, called the Scavenger's Daughter, with a collar of iron to fasten round a man's neck and irons round his arms and legs, which cramped him up in an awful position, in which he was left for hours, until every bone ached as if it were red-hot. The thumbscrew was a little thing, but caused great agony.
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