Little Ease - History's Most BRUTAL Torture Method?
One of the most infamous prisons in History was the Tower of London in which 3 Queens of England were executed within the walls. Also inside of the castle was a torture dungeon, an oubliette known as Little Ease. This was a tiny cell in which a prisoner was forced inside locked into one position for long periods of torture. Guy Fawkes was subjected to the oubliette, and he was broken inside of it. It was psychological and physical torture.
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Yes. That was an absolutely vicious, and soulless, means of torture and execution!
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Is Little ease no longer there? If not what happened to it? Does anybody know? If it is still there can it be shown on camera?
There is no doubt that Little Ease existed at some point but appears to have been lost over the years as the White Tower underwent various renovations etc, if that was even where it was situated - nobody knows for certain. What is more of a grey area (excuse the pun) is the oubliette as these narrow dungeons could well have been a form of drainage system with historians having identified them as being specific torture/execution methods. That's not to say condemned prisoners weren't thrown into them anyway but evidence is sketchy at best as to their intended use.
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I'm confused, if Little Ease's location is unknown then how is there a photo of Little Ease? Or is that just a mock up of how Little Ease might look like?
@TheFortress
14 күн бұрын
I think it's a victorian mock up. From my visits to the tower, this image is actually a doorway in the basement of the white tower.
Mark Smeeton spent time in the little ease.
The government.
Will you PLEASE stop saying prisoners could'nt stand up in these things. YES THEY COULD!!! The shallowest one found to date is 5'9" deep. The average man's height in the times these were used was 5'5".
@yepiratesworkshop7997
13 күн бұрын
O.K. He could just say: "Sun Mingming (7; 9" pro basketball guy) couldn't stand up in ANY of them..."
@kellyshomemadekitchen
7 күн бұрын
There’s been a few that were actually too small for standing or lying down.
Brutal indeed. Such a modern English name too (perhaps assigned to it much later?)
I'm showing my friends this!
F-Briten and yet we bailed them out of WW1, and WW2