Note 105 — OF PUNISHMENTS.

Or Guillot’s daughter, so named from a physician of the name of Guillot, its inventor; it is singular, that a somewhat similar engine, which is or was preserved in the Tower of London, was called the Maiden in Scotland, and in England the Earl of Exeter’s daughter. By the same figure, the Gunner’s daughter is the carriage to which a sailor is lashed for punishment.