A woman who throughout the Tudor period was considered the only woman to be tortured inside of the Tower of London was Anne Askew. She was a very religious woman however she was brutalised at the hands of two of Henry VIII’s most senior government officials. Inside of the Tower of London there was a large amount of torture performed upon prisoners, and during this time it became a site of execution also. But the most infamous torture device The rack was used there, and it was considered the most serious of torture methods used. But what is the story of Anne Askew and what did she do that caused her to be subjected to the brutality of the rack?