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Definition of Thorpes
1. thorpe [n] - See also: thorpe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thorpes
Literary usage of Thorpes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England by Thomas Christopher Banks (1837)
"... wife of Roger Fitz-Peter Fitz-Osbert, became his heir; and she likewise dying
without issue surviving, the inheritance fell to the thorpes and the ..."
2. Yorkshire Notes and Queries by Joseph Horsfall Turner (1890)
"Elizabeth, widow cf Richard Thorpe, was bur. at M. 5 July, 1645, Hopton Arms.
[The thorpes of East Riding bear arms, a silver shield powdered with blue ..."
3. The Commonwealth Law Reports: Cases Determined in the High Court of by Australia High Court (1905)
"thorpes LTD. v. GRANT PASTORAL Co. PTY. LTD. Fullagar J. mentioned. The argument
which I have been considering was the only argument put before the Full ..."
4. Berkeley Manuscripts: Abstracts and Extracts of Smyth's Lives of the by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, John Smyth (1821)
"The most antient messuage of this hamlet is Wanswell Court, the antient habitation
of the family of the thorpes, and now of William Thorpe, Esq. anno 1639. ..."
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