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Peterborow
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Proper noun
en Peterborough.
en c. 1706 w:Jonathan Swift To the Earl of Peterborow
Charles Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow, with only 280 horse and 950 foot , enterprised and accomplished the Conquest of Valentia
en 1959 Henry Guppy Bulletin of the John Rylands Library w:Manchester University Press 41 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=b8gbAAAAMAAJ&q=%2Bfenocchio&dq=%2Bfenocchio&hl=en&ei=1uWATsaOOM_WsgbB8dFH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBzgK 396 The novelties of fenocchio and broccoli seeds Swift probably got from Pope, who in turn may have had them recently from Italy by way of the Earl of Peterborow.