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with beautiful ornamental designs. There were some suits of armor which had belonged to Knights, one of which must have been a giant. There also is the coat worn by General Wolfe at the time he was shot.   We next were shown Queen Elizabeth's armory. The walls of this room are seventeen feet thick, and from it a door branches off into another room in which Sir. Walter Raleigh was confined for fourteen years. It is small and perfectly dark.    We were shown the block on which Anne Bolein, Lady Jane Grey, Sir Guilford Dudley and the Earl of Essex were beheaded, on it are the marks of the axe, and beside it stands the axe.    There were many instruments of torture here, amongst them an ingenious thumb screw like this, which being screwed down on the victim's thumbs and secured with a padlock held him securely by the chain attached to it. [[image - drawing of thumb screw]] On the top of the opposite page is a sketch of a curious implement
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of warfare, and beneath it another, the first [[image: poled weapon with spiked ball hanging from a chain]] Handles about 8 or 10 feet long. [[image: poled weapon with spike at end]] tells its own story, but the lower one needs some explanation. It is intended to be used in capturing prisoners, being shoved against the neck of the individual, the springs open and then closing after it is over he is secured. There is a curious match lock used by Henry the eighth, protected by a shield, with a peep hole through it to sight the gun through. Here is a sketch of it [[image - drawing of a lock]] There are also many other instruments of torture, one of which in particular, which I had most forgotten to mention it is an iron collar weighing between fourteen and fifteen pounds, fitted with sharp spikes. It was placed around the neck of hapless prisoners.     We next went to see the crown and jewels, which used to be kept in the tower, but were moved some time ago to the place where they now now are -