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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ry of 1586 the final scene in the tragedyof Mary, quondam Queen of France and Scotland, tookplace at Fotheringhay, and later her body was buried inPeterborough Cathedral till her son, James I., removedit to Westminster Abbey. Fotheringhay was granted byJames to various courtiers in turn, and its end was notdestruction by intent, but gradual decay, till its lastremains were used up in the eighteenth century for thepurpose of repairing dykes connected with the navigationof the Nene. As Lollardism previously, so now Puritanism seizedon the minds of the people, and nowhere in Englanddid it gain such a stronghold. One cause that helpedit on was the support given to it by Lord Burghleyfor political reasons. It was at All Saints Church, inNorthampton, that the famous Puritan exercises knownas Prophesyings had their origin, and again the classes or boards of Church authority, composed ofPuritan clergy and elders, are reported by Fuller to be more formally settled in Northamptonshire than any-
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Triangular Lodge, Rushton. Northamptonshire 205 where else in England. They were three in number—Northampton, Daventry, and Kettering. The county played a prominent part in the GunpowderPlot—in its conception by Robert Catesby and its dis-covery by Francis Tresham, both hereditary Catholics. Itwas in the Plot Room, with its hiding-place covered by asliding panel, over the old gatehouse at Ashby St. Ledgers,that, as the local tradition runs, Catesby and his fellowshad their meetings; and the wainscoted hall of the manor-house^ is said to be the chamber where Lady Catesby wasabout to sup when Catesby, bearing with him theassurance that their main plot was bewrayed whereuponthey had built the golden mountain of their hopes, sentfor Robert Winter into the fields, and willed him totake his horse and come and speak with him, but thathe should not let his mother know of his being there.Robert Catesby, the head and front of the conspiracy,was the owner of large estates in Northamptonshire

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