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This Ingmanthorpe, or Inmanthorpe (spelt both ways), is, according to Thoresby, near Knaresborough on the Nidd.
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Rector, 1908, in vol. xvii of the Publications of the Thoresby Society.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane
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In consequence of this his valet drove over to Thoresby at the same time to meet his master.
The Portland Peerage Romance Charles J. Archard
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I knew not the young man, but remember his father in the Thoresby days, and the old man now being dead, the youth is well to pass in the world in a small way and hath inherited the old Devon grange.
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Newcastle at Clumber, the Earl Manvers (whose family formerly had the title of Duke of Kingston) at Thoresby, and Worksop Manor, formerly the seat of the Duke of Norfolk.
The Portland Peerage Romance Charles J. Archard
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At length the anxious servant returned to Welbeck, and called up the groom who had driven him over to Thoresby, and who was in bed, and enquired whether he had seen anything of Lord George on the way back, as his Lord had never reached Thoresby.
The Portland Peerage Romance Charles J. Archard
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Then, when his letters were sealed, about four o'clock he took his staff and went forth to walk to Thoresby, the seat of Lord Manvers, distant between five and six miles from Welbeck, and where Lord George was to make a visit of two days.
The Portland Peerage Romance Charles J. Archard
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Grimsthorpe, Lady Aveland's (inherited from the dukes of Ancaster, extinct); Thoresby, Earl Manvers's, formerly the duke of Kingston's, father of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; and Knowsley, Lord Derby's, are also very large parks.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Lord George pursuing as they themselves went to Thoresby.
The Portland Peerage Romance Charles J. Archard
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Norton (Bishops), Thoresby and Wathall; and he further calls attention to the fact, which is certainly most important, that the custom may be traced over nearly all Europe with the exception of Spain and Italy, and up to the boundaries of China and Arracan.
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