Northamptonshire


The representative history of Great Britain and Ireland by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield (1816)

Northamptonshire is an inland county of England bounded on the north by Leicester Rutland and Lincolnshire on the east by Cambridge Huntingdon and Bedfordshires on the south by Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire and on the west by Oxford and Warwickshire being nearly 60 miles long and from eight to 22 broad containing 6 17,000 square statute acres having about 290,000 arable and 235,000 in pasturage and about S6 000 uncultivated including woodlands

The nobility are more numerous in this county than in any other of the same dimensions in England Amongst these we may enumerate the Duke of Dorset Marquis of Exeter Marquis of Earl of Westmoreland Earl of Radnor Earl Spencer Earl Fitzwilliam Earl of Earl of Cardigan Lord Sondes Lord Lord Lilford Lord St John &c &c From whence it might be concluded that the representation would always be divided among some of these families but they are too numerous for each person to be accommodated they therefore of necessity range themselves with their respective parties and the opposition lords bring in one and the ministerial ones the other.

Quotations
 Chapter 1 
Of the rest she saw nothing: nobody seemed to think of her ever going amongst them again, even for a visit, nobody at home seemed to want her; but William determining, soon after her removal, to be a sailor, was invited to spend a week with his sister in Northamptonshire before he went to sea.
 Chapter 4 
To anything like a permanence of abode, or limitation of society, Henry Crawford had, unluckily, a great dislike: he could not accommodate his sister in an article of such importance; but he escorted her, with the utmost kindness, into Northamptonshire, and as readily engaged to fetch her away again, at half an hour’s notice, whenever she were weary of the place.
 Chapter 24 
When it was proved, however, to have done William no harm, she could allow it to be a kindness, and even reward the owner with a smile when the animal was one minute tendered to his use again; and the next, with the greatest cordiality, and in a manner not to be resisted, made over to his use entirely so long as he remained in Northamptonshire.
 Chapter 25 
She said little, assented only here and there, and betrayed no inclination either of appropriating any part of the compliment to herself, or of strengthening his views in favour of Northamptonshire.
 Chapter 26 
He remained steadily inclined to gratify so amiable a feeling; to gratify anybody else who might wish to see Fanny dance, and to give pleasure to the young people in general; and having thought the matter over, and taken his resolution in quiet independence, the result of it appeared the next morning at breakfast, when, after recalling and commending what his nephew had said, he added, “I do not like, William, that you should leave Northamptonshire without this indulgence.
 Chapter 30 
It was bad, very bad in me against such a creature; but I did not know her then; and she shall have no reason to lament the hour that first put it into my head. I will make her very happy, Mary; happier than she has ever yet been herself, or ever seen anybody else. I will not take her from Northamptonshire.
 Chapter 30 
“Ha!” cried Mary; “settle in Northamptonshire! That is pleasant! Then we shall be all together.”“You will divide your year between London and Northamptonshire?”
 Chapter 30 
“You will divide your year between London and Northamptonshire?”
 Chapter 33 
He leaves Northamptonshire so soon, that even this slight sacrifice cannot be often demanded. The future must be very uncertain. And now, my dear Fanny, this subject is closed between us.”
 Chapter 36 
When she comes to know the truth she will, very likely, wish me in Northamptonshire again; for there is a daughter of Mr. Fraser, by a first wife, whom she is wild to get married, and wants Henry to take.
 Chapter 37 
William had obtained a ten days’ leave of absence, to be given to Northamptonshire, and was coming, the happiest of lieutenants, because the latest made, to shew his happiness and describe his uniform.
 Chapter 38 
Was she as much plagued as herself to get tolerable servants?”— soon led her mind away from Northamptonshire, and fixed it on her own domestic grievances, and the shocking character of all the Portsmouth servants, of whom she believed her own two were the very worst, engrossed her completely.
 Chapter 38 
As she now sat looking at Betsey, she could not but think particularly of another sister, a very pretty little girl, whom she had left there not much younger when she went into Northamptonshire, who had died a few years afterwards.
 Chapter 43 
“I had almost forgot (it was Edmund’s fault: he gets into my head more than does me good) one very material thing I had to say from Henry and myself—I mean about our taking you back into Northamptonshire. "
 Chapter 43 
She hoped it was not wrong; though, after a time, Susan’s very great admiration of everything said or done in her uncle’s house, and earnest longing to go into Northamptonshire, seemed almost to blame her for exciting feelings which could not be gratified.
 Chapter 45 
It was always: “When I go back into Northamptonshire, or when I return to Mansfield, I shall do so and so.”
 

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