IN THE TORTURE CHAMBER.
William Carstairs the Scottish divine, was suspected of being implicated in the Rye House Plot, but when put to tho excruciating torture of the thumbscrews he endured it heroically without confessing or implicating i others.
Some time after he became confidential secretary to William 111., and was presented with the instrument by which he had been tortured. The King, wishing to see the measure of fortitude necessary to endure the terrible torture without making a confession of some sort, placed .his thumbs in the machine and told Carstairs to turn the screw. He turned slowly and cautiously.
“It is unpleasant,” said the King, “yet it might be endured. You are trifling, with' me ; turn the screw hc that I may really feel pain similar to that you felt.”
Castairs gave a sharp turn. The King shouted with pain, and when released said that, under such agony he would have confessed to anything, true or false.
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 46, 19 June 1906, Page 2
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