How To Use Northumberland In A Sentence
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Thompson claimed that his grandmother, who lived in Blyth, Northumberland, was a pagan high priestess, and that she had passed on her powers to him.
Sex cult leader jailed for forcing girlfriend into sex with others
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At the Fallowfield lead mine, near Hexham in Northumberland, it is associated with witherite; and at Bromley Hill, near Alston in Cumberland, it occurs in veins with galena.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Bamburgh Castle, in Northumberland, which sits on a volcanic outcrop overlooking the North Sea, was in joint eighth place.
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At Stockton-on-Tees a landfill site has been used for disposal of pigs and sheep from Danby Wiske and Easingwold in North Yorkshire, and dumping of sheep began at a former opencast mine near Widdrington, Northumberland.
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A credit to his trainer Rod Millman, the stayer became the first to complete a Northumberland Plate-Ebor-Cesarewitch treble not even attempted since 1911.
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The newest member of the Royal family, and the novelist are 11th cousins, six times removed.They share a common 15th century ancestor: Henry Percy, who was the 2nd Earl of Northumberland.
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This armilla (?) was not found in Northumberland, but in
Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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The sole survivor of three chicks hatched by a record-breaking pair of ospreys has taken its first tentative flight from its eyrie in Kielder Water and Forest Park in Northumberland.
Treetop CCTV captures the first flight of an osprey chick
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NORTHUMBERLAND STREET , adjacent to the Eldon Square shopping centre , is awash with people.
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The use of such female bondagers as agricultural labourers was especially prevalent in south east Scotland and extended into north Northumberland.
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Payment was resisted in Yorkshire and Durham, and the Earl of Northumberland thereupon summoned the nobility and gentry of the North to meet him at York, and told them they must obey the King's demands.
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The young prince showed, among other virtues, a disposition to frugality, which, had he lived, would soon have retrieved these losses; but as his health was declining very fast, the present emptiness of the exchequer was a sensible obstacle to the execution of those projects which the ambition of Northumberland had founded on the prospect of
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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Across its Northumberland parkland roamed herds of antelope and buffalo.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The Mary Townley Loop is named after the horsewoman who rode from Derbyshire to Northumberland to launch the idea of the Bridleway.
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He was a good shot and a blackcock, killed when out shooting with the Duke of Northumberland, was for many years exhibited in Keilder Castle.
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Although Mary probably knew about the new succession plan soon after Edward began drafting his "deuise" in March and April 1553, she did not publicly protest afterward because she had already given assurances to Edward and Northumberland that she would not challenge the new succession plan.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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Northumberland are lusty fellows, fresh complexioned, cleanly, and well cloathed; but the labourers in Scotland are generally lank, lean, hard-featured, sallow, soiled, and shabby, and their little pinched blue caps have a beggarly effect.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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The majority of vessels were sloops and schooners of 50-100 tons, ideal for working cargoes from the shallow and confined havens of north Northumberland.
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To Nora's barely hidden horror William had joined a partnership in Northumberland.
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She wore a dress of silver tissue and a stomacher covering the whole centre part of her bodice, set with a number of very large diamonds, worth quite extravagant sums according to the Duchess of Northumberland.
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I would the nag that brought Piercie Shafton hither had broken his neck over the highest heuch in Northumberland! —
The Monastery
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An 11-year-old boy had a knife held to his neck and was told he would be "shanked" - a street term for stabbed - at the junction of Callington Road and Northumberland Avenue on Tuesday, March 3.
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A Northumberland Police spokesman said he was part of a group diving from a locally chartered boat.
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Eldest son of the earl of Northumberland, Percy was first appointed sole warden of the east march in 1385; Scottish borderers were soon calling him ‘Haatspore’.
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The Bridleway - a horsy Pennine Way - will, when it is completed, stretch 350 miles from Middleton Top in Derbyshire, through Lancashire, the Yorkshire Dales and Cumbria, to Northumberland.
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Roger Miket, secretary of the Gefrin Trust, a conservational partnership between the community, Northumberland County Council, Northumberland National Park Authority, English Heritage and private specialist interests, said: The site here at Bamburgh is a book that can tell us about an important time for which little or no history is written.
Bamburgh's remarkable archaeology celebrated in new book
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Thomas Percy, one of the conspirators, was a distant cousin, had been employed by Northumberland as constable of Alnwick castle, and had been made a gentleman pensioner.
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The Duke of Northumberland, for example, has nothing in particular to do with Northumberland, nor does he exercise dukeship (or leadership) over anything except his private estate.
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Northumberland, distinguished his own retainers, however, by the special request of the ancient Montagus. -- a Gryphon issuant from a ducal crown.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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But what spurred him to build one was, as he puts it, " my nutter cousin " in Northumberland, who put together a pint-sized trebuchet for a county fair.
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Northumberland opposed both Charles's execution and the prosecution of the regicides.
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It followed that Northumberland's men were in a sense Gloucester's men, even though the duke could not retain them directly.
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Northumberland ought to be far enough to outdistance even Kitty.
THE PERFECT LOVER
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Within the relatively narrow compass of Northumberland and Durham - as it must seem to us today - it might even be said that he was a great one.
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Northumberland, and Agelnothus the abbat of Glastenburie were the most famous.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
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One of the greatest man-made lakes in Europe is Keilder Water, high in the remote hills of Northumberland.
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Farrell the butterfly entrepreneur took flight in 1981 after his elder brother, a veterinary surgeon, had been called to the Duke of Northumberland's Thameside pile, Syon Park, to treat an iguana.
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The west gate wch I entred I came by a Large building of bricke within bricke walls, which is the hall for the assizes and sessions for the shire of Northumberland.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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Falstone is in north Northumberland, not far from West Woodburn, where my brother, Christopher, now lives with his family.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
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She spent 15 years as a clinical psychologist with the Northumberland Health Authority.
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The first weekend of this June brought bright sunshine, light winds and no sea fret, resulting in ideal conditions for diving the beautiful Northumberland coastline.
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Northumberland could proceed with the marriage of his son to Jane Grey, the other Protestant nobility could openly align themselves to Northumberland, the jurists could support Edward's "deuise" and the patent letters confirming the new succession could be issued within the context of Edward's deteriorating condition because it was widely known among the political elite (which did not include the Imperial envoys) that Mary would not challenge the Grey succession.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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The majority of vessels were sloops and schooners of 50-100 tons, ideal for working cargoes from the shallow and confined havens of north Northumberland.
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If this innovation helps - and said ministers are held accountable for addressing regional priorities for example the dualling of the A1 in Northumberland - I'm all for it.
Brown: The South East Doesn't Matter
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Every dictionary worth its spurs notes that the word hotspur was the sobriquet of Sir Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, killed in 1403 in the rebellion against Henry IV.
No Uncertain Terms
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Northumberland, and he begged a seat in his caroche; and Madam Penelope stuffed the caroche with all the cushions that were in the house, and a hamper of baked meats, and wine, and a great fur mantle to lap your
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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Gaunt's appointment led to a breach, from which Northumberland emerged as sole warden in both marches in 1384, after which either he or his son usually held one of the wardenships.
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Frank RileyHexham, Northumberland• Now that Donald Trump has made Obama reveal his full birth certificate Report, 28 April, perhaps he could furnish evidence of the provenance of his own barnet.
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However 28-year-old Duggleby had to work a little harder in the 6-0 whitewash of Northumberland when it took a last hole win to see off the challenge of Julie Ross.
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One of the eight-and-twenty freshmen who matriculated at Trinity Hall along with Charles Dilke in 1862 was David Fenwick Steavenson, a dalesman from Northumberland, with whom he formed a lasting friendship.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
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Scott has grown-up to be a brisk-hearted jovial young man and Advocate: in vacation-time he makes excursions to the Highlands, to the Border Cheviots and Northumberland; rides free and far, on his stout galloway, through bog and brake, over the dim moory Debatable Land, over Flodden and other fields and places, where, though he yet knew it not, his work lay.
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Mary's ascent to the throne was clouded with the actions of the Duke of Northumberland and Lady Jane Grey.
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The Lancaster forces were routed and King Henry, the poor wandering lost King Henry who does not know fully where he is, even when he is in his palace at Whitehall, has run away into the moors of Northumberland, a price on his head as if he were an outlaw, without attendants, without friends, without even followers, like a borderer rebel as wild as a chough.
The White Queen
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North Shields became the export base for much of the South East Northumberland coal field.
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The grounds of the sentence are not stated, but there may have been two -- the alleged precontract with the Earl of Northumberland, which the Earl denied on oath and on the sacrament, and the previous affinity between Anne and Henry arising from the King's relations with
Henry VIII.
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One teacher tried to ask him a question, but Kim immediately figured out from his accent that he was from Northumberland, and then recited the chapt ...
Boing Boing
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Last week I saw burnet roses in the dunes of Northumberland: low scrubby sticks scythed by North Sea winds blooming with constellations of white flowers.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Last week I saw burnet roses in the dunes of Northumberland: low scrubby sticks scythed by North Sea winds blooming with constellations of white flowers.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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`Large parts of the northern counties, from Derbyshire to Northumberland.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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On an incursion into Northumberland, he was defeated at the battle of Stamford Bridge.
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The eerie skeleton of Dunstanburgh Castle seen through a sea fret is one of the spectacular sights of the Northumberland coast.
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John Cunliffe wrote his Pat stories after hearing yarns from the friendly man who ran his local Lake District post office, and used his own experience of running a mobile library in rural Northumberland.
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After that Ceolvulfe king of Northumberland was become a moonke in the abbie of Lindesferne, his vncles sonne Egbert (by order taken by the said Ceolvulfe) succeeded him in the kingdome, and gouerned the same right woorthilie for the terme of 24 yeares, and then became a moonke, by the example both of his predecessor the forsaid Ceolvulfe,
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England
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Falstone is in north Northumberland, not far from West Woodburn, where my brother, Christopher, now lives with his family.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
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Across its Northumberland parkland roamed herds of antelope and buffalo.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Minerva in the shape of Count Bernsdorff, or out of all shape in the person of the Duchess of Northumberland, is to conduct Telemachus to York races; for can a monarch be perfectly accomplished in the mysteries of king-craft, as our Solomon James I. called it, unless he is initiated in the arts of jockeyship?
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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In Northumberland an angler fishing from a 50ft cliff died when the freezing weather made it collapse.
The Sun
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There is no finer example of the medieval reuse of Roman spolia than in the abbey church at Hexham in Northumberland.
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'Lindisfarne, an isle on the coast of Northumberland, was called Holy Island, from the sanctity of its ancient monastery, and from its having been the episcopal seat of the see of Durham during the early ages of British Christianity.
Marmion
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Across its Northumberland parkland roamed herds of antelope and buffalo.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The like hapned on a time at the Duke of Northumberlandes bourd, where merry _John Heywood_ was allowed to sit at the tables end.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Were you to transport someone blindfold between triple-garaged developments in Northumberland, Cheshire, Warwickshire and the home counties, it would be astonishing if they emerged blinking into the northern, southern and Midlands lights able to divine which was which.
Why it's continental glamour or bust for Sunderland and Newcastle | Louise Taylor
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The early Carboniferous Northumberland Basin, NE England, is one of the northernmost basins that developed in the foreland of the Variscan orogenic belt.
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She spent 15 years as a clinical psychologist with the Northumberland Health Authority.
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Marchers carried banners to Northumberland Street for a symbolic crossing of the wall that divides them.
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We hiked, swam, climbed, potholed, abseiled, ran, jumped, fell in, fell over and camped on most of Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland during my time with the association.
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Other conscious decisions that the designer implements in his Northumberland workshop is the recycling of wood cut-offs as pictured in these super sleek bookend forms.
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During her first month in the Gulf, Northumberland has spent 75 per cent of the time at sea, and has boarded ships ranging in size from small merchantmen to large cargo ships.
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-- I would the nag that brought Piercie Shafton hither had broken his neck over the highest heuch in Northumberland!
The Monastery
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We hiked, swam, climbed, potholed, abseiled, ran, jumped, fell in, fell over and camped on most of Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland during my time with the association.
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Dene is a word from Northumbrian English used in Northumberland and Durham to refer to a steep-sided wooded valley through which a burn runs.
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The dialects of Northumberland have their foundations firmly rooted in Old English Anglo-Saxon, with huge influences from Scandanavia.
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She kept up the desperate battle until another ambulance reached them near Hexham, Northumberland.
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Farrell the butterfly entrepreneur took flight in 1981 after his elder brother, a veterinary surgeon, had been called to the Duke of Northumberland's Thameside pile, Syon Park, to treat an iguana.
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The Northumberland venue was described as raceable on Saturday but after finding almost two inches of snow on the track on arrival this morning, clerk of the course Johnnie Fenwicke-Clennell was left with little option but to call the meeting off.
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In Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire thorpe is comparatively rare, while toft is not found at all.
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The traces of these days of raid and foray are to be found in abundance all over Coquetdale, as indeed all over Northumberland, in pele-tower and barmkyn, fortified dwelling and bastle house.
Northumberland Yesterday and To-day
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She spent 15 years as a clinical psychologist with the Northumberland Health Authority.
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Across its Northumberland parkland roamed herds of antelope and buffalo.
The Times Literary Supplement
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After making the snap decision to leave Bridlington, wreathed in torrential rain, we headed for Northumberland, a two-and-a-half hour drive away.
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Only two other ormolu tea urns by Boulton are known: one in the Royal Collection, and one owned by the Duke of Northumberland.
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Sitting relaxed in his small study, planning a family caravan holiday in Northumberland, he looks now to be doing pretty well.
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Northumberland ought to be far enough to outdistance even Kitty.
THE PERFECT LOVER
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They work in six depots running services across Newcastle and Northumberland.
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Something the size of Holy Island, off the coast of Northumberland, perhaps?
Stay Through The Night
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Born in Ireland, presumably in Dublin, he became an ensign in the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1745.
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Rye (_Secale cereale_) is scarcely at all raised in this country for bread, except in Durham and Northumberland, where, however, it is usually mixed with wheat, and forms what is called "maslin," -- a bread corn in considerable use in the north of Europe.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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There was also a small English rising in Northumberland, supported mostly by catholic and high Anglican squires who were bankrupt.
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The white longhorns have remained isolated and untouched next to Chillingham Castle in Northumberland since they were first penned into their park in 1260.
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Nor was the phrase inapplicable; for, in a letter, to which I have mislaid the reference, the Earl of Northumberland writes to the King and
Marmion
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The Lancaster forces were routed and King Henry, the poor wandering lost King Henry who does not know fully where he is, even when he is in his palace at Whitehall, has run away into the moors of Northumberland, a price on his head as if he were an outlaw, without attendants, without friends, without even followers, like a borderer rebel as wild as a chough.
The White Queen
