DUKE OF
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V08,
Page 651
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:DUKE OF
See also:EXETER'S DAUGHTER, a See also:nickname applied to a 15th-See also:century See also:instrument of See also:torture resembling the See also:rack (q.v.)
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See also:Blackstone says (Commentaries, ii. sec
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326): " The trial by rack is utterly unknown to the See also:law of See also:England, though once when the See also:dukes of Exeter and See also:Suffolk, and other ministers of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VI., had laid adesign to introduce the See also:civil (i.e
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See also:Roman) law into the See also:kingdom as the See also:rule of See also:government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture, which.was called in derision the See also:duke of Exeter's daughter, and still remains in the See also:Tower of See also:London, where it was used as an See also:engine of See also:state, not of law, more than once in See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's reign
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