The Duke of Exeter's daughter was a torture

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in the

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. Its presence is said to have been due to

John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, (29 March 1395 – 5 August 1447) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. His father, the 1st Duke of Exeter, was a maternal half-brother to Ri ...

, the constable of the Tower in 1447, whence it got its name. Blackstone wrote in c. 1765 ('' Commentaries'', ii. sec. 326):

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