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| Other means of torture used in the Tower included the head crusher, thumbscrew, the boot, the caschie-laws, the langirnis, the narrow-bore, the iron collar, the pynebanis, the bilboes (which compressed the ankles), the pilliwinks (which squeezed the fingers), and the brakes, a device used to break the victims' teeth. Victims were burned with fire, had gauze forced down into their stomach, and had water poured into their throat. Prisoners who refused to plead guilty were often subject to peine forte et dure, or pressing to death. This was used to extract confessions because if a victim died under torture, his estate would be passed onto his heirs. If he confessed, the crown would get the estate. So long, drawn-out tortures were favored as more likely to get a confession. This torture occured as late as 1726. |
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