DUKE OF
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V08,
Page 651
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
DUKE OF
EXETER'S DAUGHTER, a nickname applied to a 15th- century instrument of torture resembling the rack (q.v.)
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Blackstone says (Commentaries, ii. sec
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326): " The trial by rack is utterly unknown to the law of England, though once when the dukes of Exeter and Suffolk, and other ministers of See also: - HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- 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 (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- 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 civil (i.e
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Roman) law into the kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture, which.was called in derision the duke of Exeter's daughter, and still remains in the Tower of London, where it was used as an engine of state, not of law, more than once in Queen Elizabeth's reign
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