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preserved, and the Bell must have had as full and very 

 similar a record. To this Crown then at Tuxford (it 

 was destroyed by a violent tempest in 1587) came 

 Margaret Tudor on her journey to the north. " She was 

 met by the vicar and churchmen near where the rebel 

 stone is now standing, the bells rang merrily till 

 midnight, and large fires kept burning in the market- 









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Courtyard of the Bell, Stilton. 



place." The Virgin Queen slept in the room over the 

 south-east angle, and proceeded on her journey on the 

 early morning of July 12th, 1503. All the neighbours 

 of the place came in on horseback, and a great train of 

 persons on foot to see the Queen at her departure from 

 the town. These all fell into the procession and the 

 minstrels commenced their avocations and " played right 



