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ruce, birch, and hemlock are common. 
arry 50 perfons. In fom 
Their 
from Canada by land, the 
twenty-fecond of July, one thoufand feven hundred and 
ninety-three.”’ 
NORTHAMPTON, the principal and county-town 
of Northamptonhhire, England, is memora seh in = = 
of political and local hiftory for the number un- 
cils and rae held there ; oe its faible aed caltle, 
with the provincial earls ; ; alfo for numerous monaftic 
foundations, and military SiGe 3 * and laitly, for its modern 
improvements and pleafantnefs of fituation, as a place of bufi- 
fs or retirement. It may be faid to be divided into four 
almoft equal parts, by two ftreets running eaft and weft, and 
north and fouth. Both thefe ftreets are wide and com- 
modious, and each extends nearly a mile in length. Moft 
a the = are built of a Seer ene var ae ftone, dug 
me are con- 
e 
vided in the a& that the fame may be claime 
a race-courfe for ol - oneaye between che. 2oth of ie 
and the — of 
their different predatory incurfions into this part of . yan 
The Northumbrians, under earl Morcar, to ok p 
geffes in the king’s lordfhip, and fixty houfes; but at the 
orman conqueft fourteen of the latter were 
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effentially neceffary, fummoned a council to meet him at 
orthampton, when all the bithops, rail and barons of 
ii hela: attended, for the purpofe of making promotions 
inthe church. In 1144, Stephen held his oa here, when 
Ranult, earl of Chefter, who came to 
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eae arie 
rath of evils, vexatious S the king and fatal to the prelate), 
a council of the ftates was convened at Northampton, before 
which the archbifhop was fummoned to appear, and an{wer 
fhould 
then be exhibited againft him. In the 20th year of this 
reign, Anketil Mallore, who fupported prince Henry’s 
unnatural rebellion, marched with a confiderable force from 
Leicefter to Northampton; ee e, having defeated the 
Royalifts, he plundered the town, and returned to Leicefter 
Tn 
the 26th year of this monarch’s reign, a convention of the 
barons and prelates was affembled here to amend, confirm, 
and enforce the conftitutions of Clarendon. By this coun- 
cil the kingdom was divided into fix circuits ; and juftices 
itinerant were afligned to each, From the formation of this 
convention, the advice of the knights and burgeffes being 
required, as well as that of the nobles and prelates, it has 
been confidered as the model by which parliaments have been 
conftituted in fucceeding times. The king of Scotland, 
with the bifhops and abbots of that kingdom, attended this 
council to profefs their fubjection to the church of England. 
pope’s nuncios, Pand a d d 
thofe differences which Fad long fubfifted ance him and 
the holy fee. made large conceffions ; but as he 
would not, o 
here, confifting of ftudents,.who at different times, and from 
various caufes, had deferted Oxford. The new feminary at 
firft was countenanced by the king; but the {cholars, having 
taken a decided part in favour of the barons, were com- 
manded to return to Oxford. A fimilar emigration took 
place from the apie of Cambridge; but was foon 
fuperfeded by a royal mandate, which compelled the 
ftudents to return co their old feminaries; and further 
, provided 
