" Lady Huntingdon on her part acted promptly and vigorously.

For when they read their own gossip in the local column it gave them a sort of proprietary interest in the paper, and Bill had once thrashed a young clerk at Huntingdon for questioning the truth of an item the Sizers had contributed.

He had, as has been said, sat for Huntingdon in the House of Commons from 1705 until 1713.

[340] A common proverbial expression: "Beggars'-bush being a tree notoriously known, on the left-hand of the London road, from Huntingdon to Caxton."

Arthur drove to Huntingdon with Louise and while the society editor picked up items her husband interviewed the merchants.

Lady Huntingdon from the first took great umbrage at the teaching of the minute.

I was this day in the van, and our forlorn having entered Huntingdon without any great resistance till they came to the bridge, finding it barricaded, they sent me word; I caused the troops to halt, and rode up to the forlorn, to view the countenance of the enemy, and found by the posture they had put themselves in, that they resolved to sell us the passage as dear as they could.

Earl Ferrers fortified his castles in Derby and Stafford; Leicester Castle was still held by the Earl of Leicester's knights; Huntingdon by the Scot king's brother; and the Earl of Norfolk was joined in June by a picked body of Flemings.

Lady Huntingdon at this period of her life was called upon to endure some very heavy domestic griefs.