 | 1828 - 332 sider
...prisoner was laid under it, on his back, on the floor: his wrists and ancles were attached by cords to two rollers at the ends of the frame; these were moved...stretched more and more, till the bones started from their sockets.—2. The Scavenger's Daughter, also used in the Tower, was a broad hoop of iron, consisting... | |
 | Jean François M. Le Pappe de Trévern (bp. of Strassburg.) - 1828 - 490 sider
...prisoner was laid under it, on his back, on the floor : his wrists and ancles were attached by cords to two rollers at the ends of the frame : these were moved by levers in opposite directions, (ill the body rose to a lovel with the frame. Questions were then put ; and, if the answers did not... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1829 - 538 sider
...prisoner was laid under it, on his back, on the " floor. His wrists and ancles were attached by " cords to two rollers at the ends of the frame : " these were...the "frame. Questions were then put ; and, if the u answers did not prove satisfactory, the sufferer " was 'stretched more and more till the bones "... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 sider
...with hie wrists and ankles attached by corde to fvo rollers at the end of the frame. These rollers were moved by levers in opposite directions, till...frame ; questions were then put, and, if the answers were not satisfactory, the sufferer was gradually stretched, till the bones started from the sockets.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 622 sider
...with his wrists and ankles attached by cords to two rollers at the end of the frame. These rollers were moved by levers in opposite directions, till...frame ; questions were then put, and, if the answers were not satisfactory, the sufferer was gradually stretched, till the bones started from the sockets.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 620 sider
...with his wrists and ankles attached by cords to two rollers at the end of the frame. These rollers were moved by levers in opposite directions, till...frame ; questions were then put, and, if the answers were not satisfactory, the sufferer was \ gradually stretched, till the bones started from the sockets.... | |
 | John Lingard - 1840 - 406 sider
...: his wrists and ancles were attached by cords to two rollers at the ends of the frame ; these wert moved by levers in opposite directions, till the body rose to a level with Ibf frame. Questions were then put; and, if the answers did not prove satisfactorythe sufferer was... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1841 - 484 sider
...two rollers at the end of the frame. These rollers were moved by levers in opposite directions until the body rose to a level with the frame. Questions were then put to the sufferer, and if not satisfactorily answered by a coniession of guilt, he was stretched by slow... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1842 - 500 sider
...two rollers at the end of the frame. These rollers were moved by levers in opposite directions until the body rose to a level with the frame. Questions were then put to the sufferer, and if not satisfactorily answered by a confession of guilt, he was stretched by slow... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1846 - 598 sider
...the rack." wrists and ancles were attached by cords to collars at the ends of the frame, these ends -were moved by levers in opposite directions, till the body rose to the level of the frame; question* were then put, and if the answers did not prove satisfactory, the... | |
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The prisoner was laid under it, on his back, on the floor ; his wrists and ancles were attached by cords to two rollers at the ends of the frame ; these were moved by levers in opposite directions, till the body rose to a level with the frame. Questions... 
