Southamptonshire

I marvel not a little that there is no trade of these into Sussex and Southamptonshire, for want thereof the smiths do work their iron with charcoal.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

I marvel not a little that there is no trade of these into Sussex and Southamptonshire, for want thereof the smiths do work their iron with charcoal.

Of Sundry Minerals and Metals. Chapter XI. [1577, Book III., Chapters 16 and 18; 1587, Book III., Chapters 10 and 11 1909

So the jackdaw (corvus monedula) generally builds in church-steeples, or under the roofs of high houses; but at Selbourn, in Southamptonshire, where towers and steeples are not sufficiently numerous, these birds build in forsaken rabbit burrows.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

-- P. [358] 'Jacob, the scourge of grammar, mark with awe:' this gentleman is son of a considerable maltster of Romsey in Southamptonshire, and bred to the law under a very eminent attorney; who, between his more laborious studies, has diverted himself with poetry.

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716

Alcibiades, third Baron ABBOTT of Brackley in Southamptonshire 47

More Peers : Verses Hilaire Belloc 1911