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DUKE OF

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 651 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
DUKE OF
EXETER
 'S DAUGHTER, a nickname applied to a 15th-century
instrument
  of torture resembling the rack (q.v.). Blackstone says (Commentaries, ii. sec. 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
Henry
  VI., had laid adesign to introduce the civil (i.e. 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. But when, upon the assassination of Villiers, duke of Buckingham, by Felton, it was proposed in the privy council to put the assassin to the rack, in order to discover his accomplices, the judges being consulted, declared unanimously that no such proceeding was allowable by the
laws
  of England."


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