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. Gay," rejoined Jack. Over the gateway towards Snow Hill, were two strong wards, called the Castle
and the Red Room. Without her, it was lonely. ‘You have rifled his
papers. Sections and pages had been pasted together, and all through both
Testaments a word had been blotted out. ”
“I cannot do it!” he cried hoarsely.
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