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  • "Fotheringay" - a song about Mary, Queen of Scots.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • "Fotheringay" - a song about Mary, Queen of Scots.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Richard, who was one of the youngest of the children, was born at one of these, called Fotheringay

    Richard III Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

  • (Soundbite of song, "Fotheringay") Ms. DENNY: (Singing) How often she has gazed from castle windows on and watched the daylight passing within her captive walls with no one to heed her call.

    Sandy Denny: Mercurial Queen Of British Folk Rock 2010

  • Denny also wrote songs for Fairport like "Fotheringay," about Mary, Queen of Scots.

    Sandy Denny: Mercurial Queen Of British Folk Rock 2010

  • Occasionally the production goes over the top, as in Mary's physical assault on her cousin in their unhistorical encounter at Fotheringay.

    Mary Stuart – review 2012

  • Sheriff of Northamptonshire, came with the warrant to Fotheringay, to tell the Queen of Scots to prepare for death.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded in Fotheringay; and all England, like a dreamer who shakes off some hideous nightmare, has leapt up in one tremendous shout of jubilation, as the terror and the danger of seventeen anxious years is lifted from its heart for ever.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • His black advice, however, was disregarded, and she was brought to trial at Fotheringay

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • Fotheringay acted, he rode over to the Chatteris Theatre and saw her.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

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