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The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

Robert Fabyan
Wine, Towers, Dukes
'The New Chronicles of England and France' pt. 2 (1477); early editions have the spelling malvesye
The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.