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After meeting her before her tour, Jim Cessford, the group's spokesman, said: Our views were put across very forcefully.
Hospital ReOpens Op Theatre for Patricia Hewitt's Visit 2006
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Cessford and his gay riders were all thrown out by the mosses and gills.
The Monastery 2008
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Cessford described the death as accidental, and said it is being examined by Canada's National Investigation Service.
Good luck runs out 2007
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Cessford described the death as accidental, and said it is being examined by Canada's National Investigation Service.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Robert Ker of Cessford, who was created Lord Roxburgh in 1599.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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Ker of Cessford took possession of the abbey, and his brother was appointed abbot.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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Roxburghe -- descended of the awful "Habbie Ker" in Queen Mary's troublous time, the Taille-Bois of the Borders, the Ogre-Baron of tradition, whose name is still whispered by the peasant with a kind of _eeriness_, as if he might start from his old den at Cessford, and pounce upon the rash speaker.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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It was in one of them that the Scots who were taken were leashed "like doggis," and for this degradation Buccleuch and Ker of Cessford made the
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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[80] Lesser barons sign too, from Cranstoun and Cessford on the Borders, to Leslie of Buchan and John Innes of that Ilk in the North.
John Knox A. Taylor Innes
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But Habby of Cessford will be here belive; and we shall soon know if he will permit an English churl to occupy his hostelrie. ''
The Waverley 1877
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