Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Duke of Exeter's Daughter

(The). A rack in the Tower of London, so called from a minister of Henry VI., who sought to introduce it into England.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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