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Fotheringhay [foth -uh-ring-gey] Examples noun
- a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
Examples from the Web for fotheringhay Historical Examples of fotheringhay
The earl was sent back to the Tower and thence to Fotheringhay.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6
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You know the rest,—the last tragedy of all, in the Castle of Fotheringhay.
Hezekiah Butterworth
But most notable are the relics of Fotheringhay Castle incorporated into the Talbot.
Thomas Dowler Murphy
Fotheringhay bore “Silver two lions passant sable, looking backward.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3
Various
From Fotheringhay we returned to the York road and followed it northward for about twenty miles.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car
Thomas D. Murphy
British Dictionary definitions for fotheringhay Fotheringhay noun
- a village in E England, in NE Northamptonshire: ruined castle, scene of the imprisonment and execution of Mary Queen of Scots (1587)