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Updated: June 19, 2025
They were going to put the boot on me at first, but the officer in command ordered them to try the thumbscrews. This was lucky, for a man may get along with damaged thumbs, but it would have been hard to travel with crippled legs! I held out though, until the pain became so great that I couldn't help giving a tremendous yell.
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....
Crane winced. He would have preferred thumbscrews just then. "John is honest himself," went on Mrs. Porter, "and he believes other men, and this horse had some drug given him to make him look nice, so that my husband would buy him." "Shameful," protested Dolman. "Are men allowed to give horses drugs?" he appealed to Mr. Porter. "No; the racing law is very strict on that point."
He looked round; everything was so quiet, so pacific; there were no fetters nor thumbscrews; the sun was lighting up the park; children were playing in it, and the necessity for a revolution was not on that particular spot quite apparent. A messenger now entered carrying some sandwiches and a little decanter of wine on a tray, covered with the whitest of cloths.
Yet the man was "fairly roasted" in the escape. Men have been burnt at the stake and tortured, and limbs have been stretched on the rack, and people have been maimed by thumbscrews and bootscrews, and put inside iron figures with nails that tear and pierce.
Formerly this shortness of face was artificially obtained by the use of the "jack," an atrocious form of torture, by which an iron instrument was used to force back the face by means of thumbscrews. The nose should be rough, large, broad, and black, and this colour should extend to the lower lip; its top should be deeply set back, almost between the eyes.
He smiled for a moment noiselessly, his mouth open but no sound coming out. Then he coaxed her: 'Answer my two other questions. 'Knight, she answered; 'for the truth of the last, ask, with thumbscrews, the witnesses ye found in Lincolnshire, and believe them as ye list. Or ask at the mouth of a draw-well if fishes be below in the water before ye ask a woman if she be chaste.
'Let this matter be for an hour. See you, you shall make a warrant to take this Lady Katharine. He paused and appeared to reflect. 'In an hour she shall be here. Give me leave to use my thumbscrews.... 'Aye, but Winchester, Cromwell said. 'Why, Throckmorton answered confidently, 'in an hour, too, Winchester shall be with the King in the King's Privy Chapel.
No man ever lifted up his voice or pen in a criticism against love, truth, compassion, service, sympathy and tenderness. And if he had, do you think that love, truth, compassion, service, sympathy, tenderness, would feel it necessary to go after him with stocks, chains, thumbscrews and torches? You can not imagine it.
"'I think it must be, for they make me unhappy. If they were all like you it would be a pleasure. "'Is it true that thumbscrews are used to extort confessions from prisoners? "'Not by the Spaniards. Rebels use all these things, similar to those that were used in the Inquisition tortures. "'What does your Excellency think of the Cubans as a race? Do you not think them progressive and brave?
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