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	Pot-8-Os
		Abingdon was, in addition to being a radical in politics and a skilled flautist, an enthusiastic turfite who won the Jockey Club Plate of 1774 with the racehorse Transit.
		Abingdon, whose enthusiasm for the turf contributed to his financial difficulties, was a sportsman who placed heavy wagers on his horses; during this race he sold Pot-8-Os to Grosvenor for 1,500 guineas, plus any percent of the purse he might win.
		He was purchased by the Earl of Grosvenor to stand at stud and was sold in 1808 to the (3rd) Duke of Grafton.
	www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/Pot-8-Os.html (1209 words)

	Earl of Abingdon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Earl of Abingdon was a title in the Peerage of England created on 30 November 1682 for James Bertie, 5th Baron Norreys of Rycote.
		He was the eldest son of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey by his second marriage to Bridget Bertie, 4th Baroness Norreys de Rycote, and the younger half-brother of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey.
		In 1938 the eighth Earl of Abingdon claimed the Earldom of Lindsey on the death of his distant relative Montague Peregrine Albemarle Bertie, 12th Earl of Lindsey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Abingdon (336 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 1263
		She married Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon, son of Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon and Anna Maria Collins, on 7 July 1768 at St.
		She married Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon, son of Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon and Charlotte Warren, on 27 August 1807 at St.
		She married Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon, son of Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon and Charlotte Warren, on 11 March 1841 at St.
	www.thepeerage.com /p1263.htm (1896 words)

	Westbury - LoveToKnow 1911
		In the south transept stands a monument to Sir James Ley, earl of Marlborough and president of the council in 1629; the "good earl" addressed in a sonnet by Milton.
		to Reginald de Pavely in 1172-1173, and from then onwards passed through various families until in 1810 it was purchased by Sir M. Lopez from the earl of Abingdon.
		A post mote was held for Westbury in 1361-1362, but the earliest mention of the town as a borough occurs in 1442-1443.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Westbury (438 words)

	History of Friends of Abingdon
		In 1944 Abingdon was a small country town where many older properties were showing the effects of neglect during two wars and the intervening years of economic depression.
		The Society's civic amenities activities have taken place against a background of change in Abingdon: the near quadrupling of the population from c.9000 to c.34,000; the transfer of the town from Berkshire to Oxfordshire; and the replacement of the Borough Corporation by Abingdon Town Council within the Vale of White Horse District.
		Abingdon Coaches operated their business from a garage at the bottom of Checker Walk, and had become accustomed to using this derelict land for turning and parking their vehicles.
	www.friendsofabingdon.org.uk /history.htm (3391 words)

	About the City of New York/Parks and Recreation
		Nonetheless, the name of Abingdon Square was preserved, because the Earl and his wife had sympathized with the American patriots, and he had argued in Parliament against British policy in the colonies.
		On March 4, 1831, the Common Council resolved that the grounds of Abingdon Square should be "enclose as a public park" and appropriated $3000 "for the expense thereof." The City acquired the parcel on April 22 and enclosed it with a cast iron fence in 1836.
		The purpose of the Reconstruction of Abingdon Square Park is to reconstruct this important historic park with a design sympathetic to its location in the Greenwich Village Historic District.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_about/parks_divisions/capital/pd_proj_month_jan_04.html (807 words)

	Greenwich Village Hotel \| Bed and Breakfast Manhattan \| Greenwich Village Bed and Breakfast \| Abingdon Guest House
		Abingdon Guest House is a hotel in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City (NYC).
		The Abingdon could also be considered an inn, a small hotel lodging with accommodations that have the feeling of a bed and breakfast (BandB).
		Abingdon Guest House is located in downtown Manhattan, about two-thirds of the way down, on the west side of the island in the Greenwich Village neighborhood.
	www.abingdonguesthouse.com /greenwich-village-hotel.shtml (1198 words)

	THE ROMANCE READER reviews: No Decent Gentleman by Patricia Grasso
		Sabrina Savage and her younger sister Courtney are the adopted daughters of the earl of Abingdon.
		Sabrina is upset that she has never been informed of the betrothal (even though her mind becomes occupied with carnal thoughts whenever she sees him) and insists that the Marquess promise to help her overturn the ruling of suicide.
		The mystery of who killed the earl isn't much of a mystery, and while Sabrina reminds Adam of his promise to help her from time to time there's little forward motion in solving the mystery.
	www.theromancereader.com /grasso-gentleman.html (870 words)

	Abingdon Virginian
		The Farm Park Board is currently negotiating to acquire property well-suited to their mission, comprised of 551 acres, 3.5 miles from I-81, in Abingdon; with 2.2 miles of riverfront and a variety of excellent agricultural, pastoral and timber lands.
		Amber is a thirteen year-old student at E.B. Stanley, and the daughter of Abingdon's Mark & Anna Howell.
		They are the children of Abingdon's Jim and Greta Rector, and the grandchildren of Roscoe and Lana Rector, of Glade Spring; Gay Farmer, of Meadowview, and Earl Farmer, of Abingdon.
	abvanews.com /fp/fp92904.html (1492 words)

	GCWMV1 - A Multi-cache in United Kingdom called Strawberry Village created by The Phillimore Clan
		The manor was held from the abbots of Abingdon by a family called de Wytham from the 12th century till 1479, from then on the Harcourts, the Norreys and the Bertie families, owned the estate through the centuries.
		The Berties later became Earls of Abingdon and the 7th Earl sold Wytham abbey to Raymond ffennell in 1920.
		The present frontage was added in 1811 by the 5th earl of Abingdon when he was modernising the house and the church.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?WP=GCWmv1 (1128 words)

	National Portrait Gallery A-Z of Portrait Sitters (A)
		Montague Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon (1808-1884), MP for Oxfordshire.
		Gertrude Lucia (née Egerton), Countess of Albemarle (1861-1943), Wife of 8th Earl of Albemarle; daughter of 1st Earl Egerton of Tatton.
		Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley (1745-1824), Commissioner of the revenue of Ireland.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/a-z/sitA.asp (3366 words)

	A bibliography of local history in Abingdon l-r
		The relation of the sediments to those previously described from the Floodplain gravels of the upper Thames Valley is discussed and their significance in dating the terrace aggradation within the Thames Valley as a whole is considered.
		A letter to Lady Loughborough, from the Earl of Abingdon; in consequence of her presentation of the colours to the Bloomsbury and Inns of Court Association.
		The poll of the freeholders of the county of Berks, at the election for knights of the shire for the said county.
	www.mjfh1.demon.co.uk /3lr.htm (2074 words)

	Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon (19 June 1808 – 8 February 1884) was a British peer and politician.
		The eldest son of the 5th Earl of Abingdon, Bertie was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
		He was then elected MP for Abingdon in 1852 and on succeeding to his father's title and leaving the Commons two years later, he became Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Montagu_Bertie,_6th_Earl_of_Abingdon (227 words)

	Earl of Abingdon "Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke...on the Affairs of America."
		Written by the Earl of Abingdon who was a leading supporter of the rights of the American colonies.
		Wilkes describes Abingdon as one of the most steady and intrepid assertors of liberty in this age and he certainly was one of the strongest champions of American rights and liberties.
		The House of Commons debate on the habeas corpus bill which Abingdon criticizes Burke for not vigorously opposing is included in a period imprint which we are also offering, the February and March, 1777 Scots Magazine.
	www.historygallery.com /books/EdmundBurke/1777abingdon/1777abingdon.htm (516 words)

	A bibliography of local history in Abingdon s-z
		Forshaw Helena, P. Speech of the Earl of Abingdon on His Lordship's motion for postponing the further consideration of the question for the abolition of the slave trade : with some strictures on the speech of the Bishop of St. David's.
		A speech, intended to be spoken by the Earl of Abingdon, at the meeting convened by the sheriff, for the nomination of proper gentlemen to represent the county of Oxford in Parliament.
		Abingdon Unicorn, T. Upper Thames Valley today : from Cirencester and the source of the Thames in the west to Wallingford in the east : from Witney in the North to Swindon and Wantage in the South.
	www.mjfh1.demon.co.uk /4sz.htm (1786 words)

	Racing in England and Ireland 1650-1700
		He quotes from minutes of a Court Leet of Algernon, Earl of Northumberland, 17th April, 1654, a decision made at the wish of "the Borough and other inhabitants" that the course of the "accustomed horse race constantly held on the said Burrow, called Hobberlaw Edge shall be altered," and details are given.
		The "four mile course" recorded in 1684 was laid out in the northern park, and there was a separate, shorter course for foot races and smock races; both survived the landscaping of the park in the early 18th century.
		In the 1670s, when both the earl of Rochester and John, Lord Lovelace, were resident in the park, their wild behaviour caused much scandal.
	www.bloodlines.net /TB/Notes/EarlyRaces1650-1700.htm (4545 words)

	Earl of Lindsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The 1st Earl of Lindsey was Robert Bertie (1582-1642).
		With the extinction of the senior line of the Bertie family in 1938, the title of Earl of Lindsey was inherited by the Earl of Abingdon (created 1682).
		The current holder of the title is Richard Henry Rupert Bertie, 14th Earl of Lindsey and 9th Earl of Abingdon.
	www.clanlindsay.com /earl_of_lindsey.htm (166 words)

	Earl of Oxford . com - VERE EARLS OF OXFORD
		He founded Earl's Colne Priory in 1105, and after the death of Beatrice he became religious and took vows as a monk.
		Juliana Vere, married Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, 8.
		Rohesia Vere, married (1) Geoffrey Mandeville, Earl of Oxford, and (2) Payne Beauchamp, of Bedford.
	www.earlofoxford.com /eo00.htm (1158 words)

	ThameHistory.net
		Their son James Bertie was created first Earl of Abingdon by King Charles II in 1682.
		Rycote Palace remained the seat of the Earls of Abingdon until 1745, when a fire killed the ten year old heir to the title in his bed.
		Willoughby Bertie, fourth Earl of Abingdon, was a very keen racehorse owner, and Rycote was the base for his activities in this field.
	www.thamehistory.net /places/RycotePalace.htm (1088 words)

	"My dearest sonne": Letters from the Countess of Rochester...:James William Johnson
		He was eleven years old and she was ten when the engagement was made formal, and he was created Earl of Lichfield in anticipation of his future as a royal son-in-law.
		Edward Henry Lee, Earl of Lichfield, and his wife were uncertain what to expect now that her father was dead, her mother off living in tawdry exile in France, and her uncle on the throne.
		The chain of letters by the countess to her grandson Lord Lichfield was set off by the death of unhappy Nan Wharton at the age of twenty-six just the month after Anne Wilmot, Lord Rochester's oldest daughter, had married Henry Bainton, Esq., a country gentleman.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /index.cfm?page=3501 (3095 words)

	Berkshire History: Abingdon
		Abingdon Abbey claimed to be the first monastery to be set up in Britain.
		Aelfstan died in AD 971 and, though he was buried at Abingdon, the monks seem to have made little of his saintly remains.
		St. Edmund of Abingdon's mother was buried here (before being removed to a nearby cemetery chapel), as recorded by a small plaque.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /villages/abingdon.html (2709 words)

	'Coondog' trial begins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"Earl told me he was scared to death," Clevinger testified.
		ABINGDON, Va. -- A contractor and sole holdout in a federal bribery case was convicted Tuesday in a scheme where he and others rigged government contracts in exchange for everything from cash to coonhounds and NASCAR tickets.
		Lester and 15 others were arrested last June after an investigation by the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service dubbed "Operation Big Coon Dog" led to charges that the men swapped more than $8 million in federally funded flood cleanup contracts for hunting dogs, cash, guns, auto parts and other bribes totaling $545,000.
	www.sullivan-county.com /nf0/june_2004/lester.htm (1207 words)

	Wilmot, Anne St. John, Countess of Rochester
		The Papers consist of 16 letters written by the Countess of Rochester to her grandson Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, five letters to his wife Lady Charlotte (Fitzroy) Lee, Countess of Lichfield, and one to his mother Elizabeth (Pope) Lee Bertie, Countess of Lindsey.
		Also in the collection is a letter to the Countess from James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon, and a letter to her from a "Cosen Bowyer".
		In her letters to the Earl of Lichfield, Countess Rochester urges him to join with the Earl of Abingdon to contest Anne's will and keep the inheritance from the hands of her husband, Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquis Wharton.
	www.library.rochester.edu /index.cfm?page=1197 (326 words)

	Marske
		After his son Eclipse (ch c 1764) established his supremacy, Marske became immensely popular and was purchased by the Earl of Abingdon for 1000 guineas.
		Pretender was bred by Andrew Blake and later purchased by the Earl of Abingdon.
		Transit was bred by William Wildman and later purchased by the Earl of Abingdon.
	www.bloodlines.net /TB/Bios/Marske.htm (1405 words)

	Thame Pubs
		Born in April 1784, Montagu Bertie was the son of Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon and Charlotte Warren.
		The Abingdon Arms was operated by the wine and spirit merchant Jacob Watson for much of the mid-19th century.
		During the 1980's the Abingdon Arms was an outlet for Usher's brewery.
	www.midlandspubs.co.uk /oxfordshire/thame.htm (929 words)

	Chawley Brick and Tile Works
		The family maintained a connection, however; Hilda Neale, living in Hurst Lane, said that her grandfather was manager in the early 20th century and her father was foreman.
		The accounts of the Earl of Abingdon in the Bodleian Library give details of the employees and the rents of their tied cottages.
		Timber from lord Abingdon's testate, which included Wytham Woods, had always been felled as a crop and brought to the saw-rnill by carts or bogies drawn by two horses.
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /external/cumnor/articles/chawley-works.htm (3518 words)

	Thames Swinford Bridge - WHERE THAMES SMOOTH WATERS GLIDE
		Early in the eleventh century and abbey was founded here by the then Earl of Cornwall, and Ethelred, the reigning king, signed the privilege of liberty with the sign of the holy cross.
		The Earl of Abingdon of the time erected it in 1777; and his successor still maintains the toll-house at its northern end.
		The present bridge was built in 1777 by the Earl of Abingdon and obviously designed by an architect or engineer of taste and ability.
	thames.me.uk /s01920.htm (725 words)

	ABINGDON SQUARE PARK - Historical Sign
		Abingdon Square Park shares its lineage with some of Greenwich Village’s earliest European landowners and social figures.
		Sir Peter Warren entered the British Navy as a volunteer in 1717 and rose to the rank of vice-admiral after an impressive tour of duty in such locales as the African coast, the Baltic Sea, the West Indies, and North America, where he fought in the French and Indian War.
		On March 4, 1831 the Common Council resolved that the ground called Abingdon Square should be "enclosed as a public park" and appropriated $3000 "for the expense thereof." The City acquired the parcel on April 22 and enclosed it with a cast iron fence in 1836.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=6391 (532 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 10598
		He was the son of James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon and Eleanora Lee.
		Child of Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon and Mary Gould
		She was the daughter of William Bourke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde and Lady Helen MacCarty.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10598.htm (1502 words)

	EBK: St. Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury
		Edmund 'Rich' was born in Abingdon on 20th November, the feast of St. Edmund, the King of East Anglia, about the year 1175.
		Edmund's boyhood seems to have been spent in Abingdon and Oxford, and he was probably first educated at the abbey in the former town.
		In memory of St. Edmund of Abingdon, Prince Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, founded, in 1288, St. Edmund's Chapel in the parish of St.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /adversaries/bios/erich.html (1327 words)

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