 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 520 pages
...VI. had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture...Duke of Exeter's Daughter, and still remains in the Towe of London, where it was occasionally used as an engine of state, not of law, more than once in... | |
 | George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 570 pages
...VI. had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom, as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof, they erected a rack for torture;...law, more than once in the reign of Queen Elizabeth t." Nothing can. * 3d Inst. p. 35. justify a resort to any thing so horrid ; but the conspiracies of... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 434 pages
...VI., had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture;...Exeter's daughter, and still remains in the Tower • I quote from some. MS. collections of a late eminent ornament of the chancery-bar kindly communicated... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for the beginning thereof they erected a rack of torture, which was called, in derision, the Duke of...Daughter, and still remains in the Tower of London." In the reign of Edward IV., however, an instance occurs of the judicial employment of the rack. Sir... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...her patriotic ministers. The rack, says Blackstone, is utterly unknown to the law of England, though it was occasionally used as an engine of state not of law, more than once in the reign of Elizabeth.— Com- v. iv. p. 326. which we may fairly add, that her foreign politics, (with the exception... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for the beginning thereof they erected a rack of torture, which was called, in derision, the Duke of...Daughter, and still remains in the Tower of London." In the reign of Edward IV., however, an instance occurs of the judicial employment of the rack. Sir... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...VI. had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kirfgdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture ; which was called in derision the Duke ef Exeter's daughter, and still remains in the tewer of London- ^5 ' 2 Hawk. PC c.30. J9. 2 Hal. °... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...VI. had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture ; which was called in derision the Dnke of Exeter's daughter, and still remains in the tower of London ° ; ' 2 Hawk. PC c.30. § 9. 2... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...formed a design of changing the law, they erected a rack for torture, which, in derision, was called the Duke of Exeter's daughter, and still remains in...more than once in the reign of , Queen Elizabeth. When Felton, upon his examination at the Council Board, declared, as he had always done, that no man... | |
 | Sir Henry Ellis - Great Britain - 1827 - 362 pages
...VIth. had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture...Law, more than once in the reign of Queen Elizabeth." In Mary's time it had been frequently used. Jhus IN Owr Lord Jhesu shall be yowr Salutation. And where... | |
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And 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 a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning... 
