The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes . g them away : if thefe be goodpeople in a common-weal, that do nothing but ufe I likewife find from Holinlhed, p. 6/0, that the brake wasan engine of torture. The faid Hawkins was caft into theTower, and at length brought to the brake, called the Duke ofExcefters daughter, by means of which pain he Ihewed many-things, &c. When the Dukes of Exeter and Suffolk, (fays Blackftone>in his Commentaries, Vol. IV. chap. xxv. p. 320, 321,) andother minifters of Heury VI. had la
The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes . g them away : if thefe be goodpeople in a common-weal, that do nothing but ufe I likewife find from Holinlhed, p. 6/0, that the brake wasan engine of torture. The faid Hawkins was caft into theTower, and at length brought to the brake, called the Duke ofExcefters daughter, by means of which pain he Ihewed many-things, &c. When the Dukes of Exeter and Suffolk, (fays Blackftone>in his Commentaries, Vol. IV. chap. xxv. p. 320, 321,) andother minifters of Heury VI. had laid a defign to introduce thecivil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for abeginning thereof they erefted a rack for torture; wliich wascalled in derifion the Duke of Exeters Daughter, and ftill re-mains in the Tower of London, where it was occalionally ufedas an engine of ftate, not of law, more than once in the reignof Queen Elizabeth. See Cokes Injiit. 35, Barrlngton, Qg^385, and Fullers JForthies, p. 317. A part of this horrid engine ftill remains in the Tower^ andthe following is the figure of it:. It confifts of a ftrong iron frame about fix feet long, with threerollers of wood within it. The middle one of thefe, which hasiron teeth at each end, is governed by two flops of iron^ a:idwas, probably, that part of the machine which fufpended tliepowers of the reft, when the unhappy fufferer was fulficiently Q4 232 MEASURE FOR MEASURE. their abiifes in common houfes, I know no law ^bring them away. ftrained by the cords, &c. to begin confeflion, I cannot con-clude this account of it without confeffing my obligation toSir Charles Frederick, who politely condefcended to dire6l myenquiries, while his high command rendered every part of theTower acceffible to my refearches. I have fince obferved tliat, in Foxs Martyrs, edit. 15Q6,p. 1843, there is a reprefentation of tlie fame kind. To tliisalio, Skelton, in his IVhy come ye not to Court, feems to allude: And with a c
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