The Knotted Rope was adapted by Thomas Cromwell, and tightened around the head allowing for pressure across the forehead.

Barnacles that had brakes, with which the lips of ill-disposed horses are stretched, when those horses are being shoed, the wooden parts being placed and drawn tight upon the lips of those to be tortured.

Burning fat would be used where the prisoner’s boots were filled with fat and then placed on a fire.

Scavenger’s Daughter violently drew and squeezed the victim. It was invented by Leonard Skeffington during Henry VIII., reign.

Crucet-hus had the prisoner put in a short, narrow and shallow chest with stones that were pressed; whoever was in the chest had their joints broken.

Bilboes consisted of iron loops sliding on a bar and secured by a padlock at the end. The lock itself is set on a flat plate, which can be fixed to the floor or walls, preventing the prisoner from moving.

Manacles caused intense pain and usually resulted in the loss of the use of the hands for some time afterwards. Its use was first recorded in 1591 at the Tower and was also used at Bridewell and other city prisons.

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