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  • Some had fled to Dunchurch, Warwickshire, where they were killed or captured.

    Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • Thence to Dunchurch, where they found the proposed party assembled.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • Digby at Dunchurch on the fatal day, that they might be ready to act together.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • Expatiating upon this learned and remarkable theory, and citing many curious statistical and other facts in its support, Sam Weller beguiled the time until they reached Dunchurch, where a dry postboy and fresh horses were procured; the next stage was Daventry, and the next Towcester; and at the end of each stage it rained harder than it had done at the beginning.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • Dunchurch, did not mount to escape until the middle of the day, when the news of the plot was all over London.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • "Thomas, do be quick; we shall never catch the Highflyer at Dunchurch."

    Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

  • "Now, boys, half a sovereign apiece if you beat 'em into Dunchurch by one hundred yards."

    Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

  • For if you would consider for a moment, you small boys, you would remember that the Cock, where the run ends and the good ale will be going, lies far out to the right on the Dunchurch road, so that every cast you take to the left is so much extra work.

    Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

  • Young Brooke thinks so too, and says kindly, "You'll cross a lane after next field; keep down it, and you'll hit the Dunchurch road below the Cock," and then steams away for the run in, in which he's sure to be first, as if he were just starting.

    Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

  • The news of the discovery immediately spreading, the conspirators fled different ways, but chiefly into Warwickshire, where Sir Everard Digby had appointed a hunting-match, near Dunchurch, to get a number of recusants together, sufficient to seize the princess Elizabeth; but this design was prevented by her taking refuge in Coventry; and their whole party, making about one hundred, retired to Holbeach, the seat of Sir

    Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

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