The one that comes most readily to my mind was often called “Scavenger’s daughter”. It was a crushing device and so the opposite of it's cousin the Rack, which stretched. read more
He describes his torture in the Tower of London: advertisment "We went to the torture room in a kind of procession, the attendants walking ahead with lighted candles. read more
Head to the Lower Wakefield Tower to find a exhibition about the methods of torture used at the Tower of London, complete with replicas of the instruments which inflicted such appalling pain. In the 1500's and 1600's, during a period of extreme political and religious upheaval, torture was used at the Tower. read more