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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.). See also:Blackstone says (Commentaries, ii. sec. 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 VI., had laid adesign to introduce the See also:civil (i.e. 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 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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