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 | | This town was formerly famous for a stately and magnificent priory, of the order of knights templars, founded by Lord Eustace Broomfleet de Vesci, in the reign of King John, anno 1200, as appears from an ancient manuscript formerly in the possession of the late Luke Lillingston, Esq. |
 | | The site of this priory is said to have been in the possession of 100 different persons, "in the space of no more than 130 years after its dissolution; which if true, is a circumstance so extraordinary, as perhaps scarcely to be paralleled. |
 | | FLIXTON, in the parish of Folkton, wapentake of Dickering; 4 miles from Hunmanby, 7.5 from Scarborough. |
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