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The prisoner was ordered to curl himself up into a ball. Pieces of iron were placed around him/her. The irons were tightened with a screw. Either the prisoner owned up to the crime... or his back was broken! http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery_images/0708/0000/0384/100_9245b_mid.jpg or http://www.duhaime.org/Portals/duhaime/PropertyAgent/3064/Images/20.jpg It was named after its inventor Leonard Skeffington. He was in charge of torture weapons for Henry VIII

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