 They put knotted strings about men's heads and writhed them till they went into the brain. They put men into prisons where adders and snakes and toads were crawling, and so they tormented them. Some they put into a chest short and narrow and not deep,...  The history of Wallingford - Page 245by John Kirby Hedges - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1830 - 538 pages
...and writhed them till they went into the brain. They put persons into prisons where adders and snakes and toads were crawling, and so they tormented them. Some they put into a crucet-house; that is, a chest that was short and narrow, and not deep, and had sharp stones within,... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1877 - 920 pages
...and snakes and toads were crawling, and so they tormented them. Some ENGLAND UNDER FOREIGN KlffGS. 99 they put into a chest short and narrow and not deep, and that hnd sharp stones within, and forced men therein so that they broke all their Jhnbs. In many of the... | |
 | John Kirby Hedges - Great Britain - 1881 - 426 pages
...and writhed them till they went into the brain. They put men into dungeons where adders and snakes and toads were crawling, and so they tormented them....narrow and not deep, and that had sharp stones within, * Page 98. and forced men therein, so that they broke all their limbs. In many of the castles were... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1882 - 486 pages
...heads, and writhed them till they went to the brain. They put men into prisons where adders and snakes and toads were crawling, and so they tormented them. Some they put into a chest, short and narrow, aad not deep, and that had sharp stones within, and forced men therein so that they broke all their... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1883 - 192 pages
...the brain. They put A NOBLE RIDING OUT FROM HIS CASTLE. men into prisons, where adders, and snakes, and toads were crawling ; and so they tormented them....so that they broke all their limbs. In many of the castle.3 were hateful and grim things called neckties, which two or three men had enough to do to carry.... | |
 | Marshall John and co - 1884 - 178 pages
...head, and burning things were tied to their feet. They put men into prisons where adders and snakes and toads were crawling, and so they tormented them....narrow, and not deep, and that had sharp stones within, so that they broke all their limbs. An old writer says : " I cannot and I may not tell of all the wounds... | |
 | George Park Fisher - World history - 1885 - 786 pages
...heads, and twisted them till they went to the brain. They put men into prisons where adders and snakes and toads were crawling, and so they tormented them....of the castles were hateful and grim things called rachenttges, which two or three men had enough to do to carry. It was thus made : it was fastened to... | |
 | George Park Fisher - World history - 1885 - 788 pages
...heads, and twisted them till they went to the brain. They put men into prisons where adders and snakes and toads were crawling, and so they tormented them....their limbs. In many of the castles were hateful and prim things called rachenttgfs, which two or three men had enough to do to carry. It was thus made... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1889 - 944 pages
...heads and writhed them till they went into the brain. They put men into prisons where adders and snakes and toads were crawling, and so they tormented them....their limbs. In many of the castles were hateful and ^•rim things called rachenteges, which two or three men had enough to do to carry. It was thus made... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1890 - 422 pages
...heads, and twisted them till they went to the brain. They put men into prisons where adders and snakes and toads were crawling ; and so they tormented them....of the castles were hateful and grim things called neckties, which two or three men had enough to do to carry. This instrument of torture was thus made... | |
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