9. 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. Here they remained till midnight when, calling for their reckoning and their steeds, they left the house. “I wonder which of us is right,” she said. " "My father was of the blood-royal of France," exclaimed Thames. ” He said with a laugh.
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