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  • Magdalen's day, in the year of our Lord God 1600, at a place called Roxby, in the country of York, within the Hundred of Pickering lythe near to

    The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

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    WHIP IT Blu-ray Review – Collider.com 2010

  • You might see his bay mare and gig-lamps a score of miles away from his Rectory House, whenever there was any dinner-party at Fuddleston, or at Roxby, or at Wapshot Hall, or at the great lords of the county, with all of whom he was intimate.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Mary Wyvis, the daughter of the village inn-keeper at Roxby, was brought up to act as his barmaid, and early became engaged to marry her cousin,

    A True Friend A Novel Adeline Sergeant

  • My relations, the publicans of Roxby, certainly were not.

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  • Mr. Wyvis, or Mr. Wyvis Brand, as you are generally known, would have been the eldest -- probably by this time a potman or a pugilist, with a share in your grandfather's public-house at Roxby.

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  • Her father supported John's claim, and threatened to horsewhip the fine gentleman if he visited the Roxby Arms again.

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  • Sir Hugh Cholmley, whose defence of Scarborough Castle has made him a name in history, was born on July 22, 1600, at Roxby, near Pickering.

    Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

  • When he was thought to be on the road homewards to Roxby, however, Sir Ralph Evers was accused of having laid

    The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

  • English had a great victory over the Scots; died April 28th, 1538; bought Roxby.

    The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

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