The northernmost county of England

Usage examples of northumberland.

The English say, he was born in Northumberland: the Scots alledge he was born at Duns, in the Mers, the neighbouring county to Northumberland, and hence was called Dunscotus.

As they had traveled north, the towering trees of Bedlington Forest had given way to the rolling hills and sharp crags of Northumberland.

Clay, the manager of the Catalonian Cork-Cutting Company, was in the rear of his premises in Northumberland Street, London.

And yet he had resigned from Derbyshire Police two years after the Alison Carter case was closed and become resident warden at a bird sanctuary in Northumberland.

Northumberland, an average medium-power carto get to Southampton by half-past six unless it left Marlstone by midnight at latest.

Northumberland is overpersuaded by his womenfolk and turns to caution again.

But if the boat had returned that night to Pictou, some of the passengers might have left her and gone west by rail, instead of wasting two, or three days lounging through Northumberland Sound and idling in the harbors of Prince Edward Island.

Parta consulted her own wishes she would have retired with a few followers to the swamps and fens of the country to the north rather than surrender her son, but the Brigantes, who inhabited Lincolnshire, and who ranged over the whole of the north of Britain as far as Northumberland, had also received a defeat at the hands of the Romans, and might not improbably hand her over upon their demand.

The earls of Oxford, Northumberland, and Cumberland, Sir Thomas Cecil, Sir Robert Cecil, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas Vavasor, Sir Thomas Gerrard, Sir Charles Blount, with many others, distinguished themselves by this generous and disinterested service of their country.

When he discovered that Eleanor had a distant family connection to the earl of Westmorland, who is hand in glove with Northumberland in this conspiracy, he approached her about carrying a packet back to England.

For generations, the earls of Westmorland and Northumberland have ruled in their respective shires like petty kings.

Sussex, who serves as lord president of her council in the North, ordering him to summon Northumberland and Westmorland to the royal court, there to give account of themselves and their recent activities.

Had the seal Dartnall mentioned belonged to the earl of Westmorland rather than the earl of Northumberland?

No one could guess how much of the populace would rise up in support of the earls of Westmorland and Northumberland, but Walter found each new set of numbers more suspect than the last.

I went home and made an elaborate toilette, and on arriving at the ball I found Agatha dancing with Lord Percy, a young fool, who was the son of the Duke of Northumberland, and an extravagant spendthrift.