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	Desborough (hundred) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The hundred of Desborough is one of the three Chiltern Hundreds in Buckinghamshire, England.
		The hundred is in the southwest of the county and is bounded by the River Thames to the south and Oxfordshire to the west.
		To the north it borders the Aylesbury hundred, and to the east the Burnham hundred.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Desborough_(hundred) (167 words)

	Chiltern Hundreds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A hundred is a traditional division of an English county, and the hilly, wooded hundreds of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire were once notorious as a hiding place for robbers.
		A Crown Steward was appointed to maintain law and order in the area, but the position's duties ceased to be required in the 16th century, and the holder ceased to gain any benefits during the 17th century.
		The positions of Steward and Deputy Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are now used as a procedural device to allow resignation from the House of Commons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chiltern_Hundreds (231 words)

	Cambridgeshire History - Cambridgeshire
		It varied in size from area to area, hundreds may have originated from the grouping of a hundred "hides", these emerged as administrative units in the 10th century.
		Hundred courts, which met every four weeks, had jurisdiction in cases relating to local issues and apportioned taxes.
		A map is available showing the position of each hundred within the county.
	www.cambridgeshirehistory.com /cambridgeshire/hundreds.html (490 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hundred Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Hundred Days HUNDRED DAYS [Hundred Days] name given to the period after the return of the deposed French emperor, Napoleon I, from Elba.
		Alitalia was forced to cancel hundreds of flights during four consecutive days in June.
		When hundreds of children in Beslan, Russia, were massacred on their first day of school last September, Beauty Director Didi Gluck had to get involved.(behind the scenes)(Brief Article)
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/06145.html (821 words)

	The three hundreds of Chiltern: Introduction and map \| British History Online
		4) In 1086 Desborough Hundred was assessed at 122 hides 2½ virgates, Burnham at 100 hides (fn.
		By the middle of the 13th century there was a second royal bailiwick of Chiltern Hundreds, comprising the Oxfordshire hundreds of Binfield, Langtree, Lewknor, Pirton and half the hundred of Ewelme, distinguished as the Four and a half Chiltern Hundreds.
		The name of the hundred survives in the earthwork of Desborough Castle in West Wycombe parish, which was probably the meeting-place of the hundred.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=42523 (653 words)

	Genealogy site of Carol Herbert - Hanslope and Stoke Goldington, Buckingham
		Hundreds were first mentioned in the Laws of Edgar in 970, and by the time of Ethelred the term referred to an area of one hundred hides for the purpose of taxation.
		For many centuries after this the Hundreds were used as a fiscal, judicial and sometimes a military district.
		In 1086 at the time of the Domesday Survey there were 18 hundreds in Buckinghamshire, and possibly even as early as that they had become grouped into threes.
	www.sleepyfrog.com /me/herbertfa/areas/hanslope.htm (339 words)

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		It consists, or rather this morning it consisted, of one hundred pounds.' 'That is certainly odd,' said Challoner; 'yes, certainly the coincidence is strange.
		With a hundred pounds for capital, a man should push his way.' 'It may be,' returned Somerset; 'but what to do with mine is more than I can fancy.
		A hundred pounds will with difficulty support you for a year; with somewhat more difficulty you may spend it in a night; and without any difficulty at all you may lose it in five minutes on the Stock Exchange.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hundred Years War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Hundred Years War HUNDRED YEARS WAR [Hundred Years War] 1337-1453, conflict between England and France.
		Writing out (of) chaos: Constructions of history in Yeats's "nineteen hundred and nineteen" and "meditations in time of civil war".
		Secret warriors: female soldiers in the Civil War: eager for adventure, or to accompany their husbands, hundreds of women assumed male identities and marched into battle.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/06146.html (750 words)

	This is the second article on the History of the area is taken from the Community Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		One such was at Desborough in West Wycombe, which held a highly strategic position as a watch-tower against approaching enemies and a place of refuge.
		The Chiltern Hundreds was divided into four: Stoke, Burnham, Aylesbury and Desborough.
		It is, of course, the Desborough Hundred which particularly concerns this area.
	www.bourneend.org.uk /history/articles/historywoollerton2.shtml (710 words)

	Shaft Grave Art: Modern Problems
		Desborough, who has made the most thorough study of that type of pottery, considered the sudden appearance of such precise motifs to be the result of a 500-year later “new Athenian invention,”
		Desborough, granting that the shape and function were similar, and that Mycenae is very close to Argos and provides a “local predecessor” for the pins there, still felt that the time gap was too enormous for there to have been a conscious revival, and no evidence of survival.
		Desborough, who has made the most thorough study of the earliest Iron Age geometrical ware, rejected a derivation from such a source, although he, like others, was equally dissatisfied with a direct development from the latest Mycenaean ware.
	www.varchive.org /schorr/shaft.htm (4797 words)

	Biography of William Henry Grenfell
		GRENFELL, WILLIAM HENRY, BARON DESBOROUGH (1855-1945), athlete, sportsman, and public servant, was born in London 30 October 1855, the eldest son of Charles William Grenfell, M.P., of Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire, by his wife, Georgiana Caroline, daughter of William Saunders Sebright Lascelles, son of the second Earl of Harewood [q.v.].
		In 1905 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Desborough, of Taplow, a title which he took from the old hundred of Desborough in Buckinghamshire.
		To most of his countrymen Desborough's name was known as that of a man with an extraordinarily wide range of activities.
	grenfell.history.users.btopenworld.com /Biographies/william_henry_grenfell.htm (1178 words)

	STOP MISLEADING the CHILDREN, MR. JENNINGS by Brian Desborough
		Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women and children have died because NATO forces destroyed that nation's infrastructure during the contrived Desert Storm war.
		When the excavation team did, in fact, not only discover a tunnel, but also turtle shells and the bones of more than two hundred animals, the newspaper ended its snide articles with a single-paragraph statement which tersely stated that "evidence" of tunnels had been revealed.
		She identified one of the perpetrators as her husband's attorney; the other three had attended the custody hearing and had later been observed in the company of her husband.
	www.whale.to /b/desborough.html (9969 words)

	DOMESDAY HISTORY
		In addition to WABURNE Remigius assigned to Walter an adjoining manor known as LEDE (LUDE), and a parcel of land, seemingly uninhabited, which was located in Burnham Hundred which lay to the east of Desborough Hundred.
		The area coloured pink is the land in Burnham Hundred.
		The wedge-shaped piece of land coloured pink on the map is almost certainly the land in Burnham Hundred mentioned in the Domesday Book this measured 115 acres in the 1803 survey.
	wooburn.history.users.btopenworld.com /domesday.htm (801 words)

	Chapter Epilogue of the Cigar Divan of The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson
		One hundred and twenty pounds a year, I have always offered her: I offer it again.
		Desborough sat with her back to them on a chair; Somerset and Harry were hanging on her words with extraordinary interest; Challoner, alleging some affair, had long ago withdrawn from the detested neighbourhood of the enchantress.
		Desborough was saying, `Mr Gladstone detected the features of his cowardly assailant.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/46/85/17295/5.html (603 words)

	Desborough Coat of Arms, Family Crest
		There are three terms found in the Domesday Book which were used to express the amount of land held by each manor, and how well that land was utilized, so as to estimate the annual rates of taxation upon each lord.
		The Hundred Years' War began in the reign of Edward III, who was the King of England from 1327 to 1377.
		The Hundred Years' War broke out as a result of a dispute between Edward and Philip, the French King, over French royal succession.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp/s.Desborough/Origin.EN/sId./qx/coatofarms_details.htm (1338 words)

	Posse Comitatus 1798
		In February 1798, with the imminent threat of invasion by French forces, returns were ordered to be made of all able-bodied men between the ages of fifteen and sixty years who were not already serving in a military capacity.
		Lists were also to be made of the numbers of draught horses, waggons and carts and their owners and of those occupying wind and water corn mills.
		This booklet contains a transcription of the returns for the Hundred of Desborough, listing over 3,100 persons giving their residence, occupation and, in some cases, notes concerning either status or eligibility.
	www.parishchest.com /en-gb/dept_1426.html (1772 words)

	Transcription of the Will of Henry Desborough
		I give and bequeath to my said wife all my household furniture, plate, linen, china, wearing apparel, books, pictures, wines and other liquors for her own absolute use and benefit.
		Desborough (seal) - Signed, Sealed, published and declared by the said Henry Desborough the testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses - S. Humphry N
		October 1820 before the Worshipful John Danbury, Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of Henry Desborough and Laurence Desborough the sons, the executors to whom administration was granted having been first sworn duly to administer.
	www.manfamily.org /transcription_of_the_will_of_henry_desborough.htm (410 words)

	The History of England (B) - Chapter VIII. (By John Lingard)
		By the officers this motion was considered as an open declaration of war: they instantly met; and Desborough, in their name, informed Richard that the crisis was at last come; the parliament must be dissolved, either by the civil authority, or by the power of the sword.
		Desborough, abandoned by his regiment, fled in despair towards Lambert; and Fleetwood, who for some days had done nothing but weep and pray, and complain that “the Lord had spit in his face," tamely endeavoured to disarm by submission the resentment of his adversaries.
		When the writers were first told that the letters had been deciphered, they laughed at the information as of a thing impracticable; but were soon undeceived by the decipherer, who sent to them by the son of the bishop of Ely copies of their letters in cipher, with a correct interlineary explanation of each.
	www.authorama.com /history-of-england-b-4.html (13574 words)

	The Forsythe Saga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Altogether they brought about seven hundred passengers of whom the folowing are presumed to have been on these ships.
		She sailed from Plymouth, England, March 20, with one hundred and forty passengers from the counties of Somerset, Dorset, and Devon under the patronage of the Reverend John White.
		She sailed about the middle of May and arrived at Boston in Midsummer, with one hundred and two passengers.
	www.rumblefische.com /ancestors/sources_Banks3.html (384 words)

	Schulers Books (The Canadian Brothers (Volume II) - 6/45)
		A second time the torch streamed suddenly in air, and the contents of the yet undischarged blunderbuss spread confusion, dismay and death, into the second boat.
		"Old Sal herself couldn't have done better: pity he hadn't a hundred of them," growled Tom Fluke, who although concealed behind the bulwarks, had availed himself of a crevice near him, to watch the effect produced by the formidable weapons.
		So completely taken by surprise was Gerald in this quarter, that the first intimation he had of his danger was, in the violent seizure of his sword arm from behind, and a general rush upon, and disarming of the remainder of his followers.
	www.schulers.com /books/jo/c/The_Canadian_Brothers__Volume_II_/The_Canadian_Brothers__Volume_II_6.htm (1305 words)

	\| Book Review \| Journal of World History, 14.3 \| The History Cooperative
		It was Leo, for example, who first popularized the unfortunate notion that the peoples of the Western Sudan had been uncivilized brutes until they came in contact with the Islamic world, a notion that was to persist unchallenged in European literature until the latter part of the twentieth century.
		The most noteworthy protagonists of this stage of the process were the English scholar William Desborough Cooley (whose photo graces the frontispiece of the book) and the German philologist-turned-explorer Heinrich Barth.
		Cooley exhaustively analyzed the various known Arabic sources and created a narrative remarkably free of prevailing racial and cultural prejudices, a narrative that focused on fl Africans and their own past, not the actions of outside invaders.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jwh/14.3/br_6.html (954 words)

	THE DISBROWS - Chapter 2: The Disbrows
		John Desborough, Desbrough, or Disbrow(e), the sec- ond son of old James, to whom the worthy Mr.
		Granting this, we know also that when Thomas Desborough died in 1633, Peter was two and Henry was younger, perhaps not yet born.
		I mention these things hurriedly in passing, for this narrative is about to follow Nicholas out of Cambridge, not to return for another 271 years when I, in 1907 as a starry-eyed freshman, first entered its hallowed precincts.
	www.afn.org /~afn09444/genealog/disbrow/disbro02.html (2203 words)

	family_tree
		She was held all summer until a trial was held on 14 Sep with Governor Robert Treat presiding.
		Almost two hundred depositions were taken against her, but the jury was at an impasse and could not reach a verdict.
		Buckley immediately came to her defense and put the rumor to rest in a letter which still exists and is in the collection of the Fairfield Historical Society.
	www.alicecalhoun.net /family_tree.html (1164 words)

	Schulers Books (The Canadian Brothers - 29/90)
		In pleasing assurance that I was as completely his dupe as could be desired, the villain had now the audacity to demand from me a written promise that, in consideration of the information given, five hundred dollars should be paid to him on the disposal of the prize.
		This demand (aware as he was--or rather as he purposed--that I was to play the part of the captured instead of that of the captor), was intended to lull me into even greater reliance on his veracity.
		My perfect knowledge of the country suggested to me, as the safest and most secure hiding place, the creek whence you saw me issue at a moment when it was supposed the American had altogether escaped.
	www.schulers.com /books/jo/c/The_Canadian_Brothers/The_Canadian_Brothers29.htm (1242 words)

	THE DISBROWS - Chapter 4: Henry Disbrow
		HENRY DISBROW We have already assumed that the two boys, Peter and Henry Disbrow (Desborough) who grew up fatherless in Rox- bury, Massachusetts, are the same Peter and Henry Disbrough who have now appeared here on the border of New York.
		Note too, that if the spelling of Hen- ry's name was phonetic, they must still be pronouncing it "Desborough" or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
		Desborough of Mamaroneck with letters to his Honour to press horse and man to Hartford and there...etc., etc. " which definitely locates our family in that July of 1673.
	www.afn.org /~afn09444/genealog/disbrow/disbro04.html (1693 words)

	One hundred years war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Meahtwot 1135 phonetic spellingparts of one hundred years war 1234 and france using the lets.
		Getting rid of one hundred years war of henllys, lord of minor importance as simple.
		Aforsayde by versions are one hundred years war as one one-hundredth td king james version.
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	THE DYNAMITER
		Presently, in the great silence that reigned, he was aware of the sound of running water to his right; and leaning in that direction, was rewarded by a scene of natural wonder and human pathos strangely intermixed.
		My father was unable to resist her tender violence; and though I could see he nourished not one spark of hope, he consented to desert his whole estate, beyond some hundreds of dollars that he had by him at the moment, and to flee that night, which promised to be dark and cloudy.
		As soon as the servants were asleep, he was to load two mules with provisions; two others were to carry my mother and myself; and, striking through the mountains by an unfrequented trail, we were to make a fair stroke for liberty and life.
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	Chapter II - Introduces Several Persons - Long Odds - Marcus Clarke, Book, etext
		“I’ll lay a hundred on Carnifex, Ponsonby!” The speaker was a young man of five-and-twenty, and he was sitting at the open window of the mess-room looking on to the paved square of Kirkminster barracks.
		The owner of the “Boko mare” was a sturdy, red-faced man, of middle age, whose face was tanned and reddened by all sorts of weather and liquor.
		He was not a good hand at croquet playing, but he could shear one hundred sheep a day, and shear them clean, which is a matter of difficulty, I can tell you.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/C/ClarkeMarcus/prose/longodds/longodds02.html (1712 words)

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