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Twenty-one,
twenty-two. The first of
these, the Press Room, a dark close chamber, near Waterman's Hall, obtained its
name from an immense wooden machine kept in it, with which such prisoners as
refused to plead to their indictments were pressed to death—a species of
inquisitorial torture not discontinued until so lately as the early part of the reign
of George the Third, when it was abolished by an express statute. . "The devil!" ejaculated Jonathan. ”
Anna shook her head. Sheppard, as I
told you, is in Bedlam, an incurable maniac; while her son is in the New Prison,
whence he will only be removed to Newgate and Tyburn. His figure was uncommonly slim even
for his age, which could not be more than thirteen; and the looseness of his garb
made him appear thinner than he was in reality.
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