"It is incredible what people say under the compulsion of torture, and how many lies they will tell about themselves and about others; in the end whatever the torturers want to be true is true."
Friedrich Spee von Lagenfeld, S.J., 1633
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Sir William Holdsworth, A History of
English Law, vol 5, 3rd ed (1945), pp 194-195