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The "Rats Dungeon", or "Dungeon of the Rats", was a feature of the Tower of London alleged by Catholic writers from the Elizabethan era. "A cell below high-water mark and totally dark" would draw in rats from the River Thames as the tide flowed in. Prisoners would have their "alarm excited" and in some instances, have "flesh ... torn from the arms and legs".
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1906) at the Internet Archive " 'The Law is an Ass: Reading E. P. Evans' The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals'" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27. (1.18 MB), Society and Animals, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1994)
The limbs collected from this and other punishments of the time were "emptied by the hundreds". Sometimes, this method was limited to dislocating a few bones, but the torturer often went too far and rendered the legs or arms (sometimes both) useless. In the late Middle Ages, some new variants of this instrument appeared.
The punishment consisted of being sewn up in a leather sack, with an assortment of live animals including a dog, snake, monkey, and a chicken or rooster, and then being thrown into water. The punishment may have varied widely in its frequency and precise form during the Roman period. For example, the earliest fully documented case is from ca ...
"Chamber of Little Ease" in the Tower of London. Little Ease was a prison cell located beneath the White Tower in the Tower of London. [1] [2] The lightless cell was designed 1.2 metres (3 ft 11 in) on a side, meaning that while an adult human could be placed inside, any occupant was prevented from being able to either stand, sit, or lie down, meaning it was impossible for him to find any ...
The Tower of London and Traitor's Gate. In the Middle Ages and into the Tudor and Stuart periods, torture was carried out in its chambers. Throughout history, torture chambers have been used in a multiplicity of ways starting from Roman times. Torture chamber use during the Middle Ages was frequent.
Damnatio ad bestias (Latin for "condemnation to beasts") was a form of Roman capital punishment where the condemned person was killed by wild animals, usually lions or other big cats. This form of execution, which first appeared during the Roman Republic around the 2nd century BC, had been part of a wider class of blood sports called Bestiarii.
Rat hunting and rat-baiting are not the same activities. Rat hunting is the legal use of dogs, often referred to as ratters, for pest control of non-captured rats in an unconfined space, such as a barn or field. [26] [27] [28] In the United Kingdom the hunting of rats with dogs is legal under the Hunting Act 2004. [29]