Northamptonshire

This is the context in Kettering.

Um, that in Northamptonshire in Britain that influenced a lot of people.

These people have largely been forgotten.

They were kind of eccentric, nonconformist pastors and ministers.

and they're so concerned about debates in England.

And so it's a very unique conversation in Britain, especially a certain region in Britain, to the point that, thanks for the kind words about my book, I've been interested as it's come out, when the book has been read by non-English speakers, especially people in the Netherlands, who are obviously proficient in English, but that's often the second language there, they haven't known what to do with it because hyper-Calvinism there has had a different connotation.

And so I'm speaking about a distinct English form of hyper-Calvinism that existed in these non-conformist communities primarily in Northamptonshire and the surrounding environs, it meant something different in the Netherlands.

So it's been funny to see the critique from the Netherlands side, which is, well, who's this Andrew Fuller figure? And who are these people? And there those conversations are more about like Calvin.

So good news, the UK.

So for example, in May of this year, the UK's MHRA, they raided a Northamptonshire country estate and they seized about 12,000 doses of unlicensed weight loss medicines.

And I'm not saying that they're clean glip one, they're just weight loss medicines, whatever that is.

And also, incidentally, they apparently are likely to have been producing and distributing other unlicensed peptide products.

Oh yeah, UK.

Yeah, unfortunately, we kind of covered this a little bit when we were talking about Zempek.

There is a lot of fraud out there, but what you're kind of describing, given that you were talking about Northamptonshire, it's a little bit Downton Abbey meets Breaking Bad, right?

Ooh, is Northamptonshire, is that a fancy place? I don't know.

Archaeologists have found medieval pottery fire covers, usually shaped like an inverted bowl with a hole or two in the top.

A pit excavated at Brayfield-on-the-Green in Northamptonshire held a fine example of a pottery fire cover from the 10th or 11th century.

A survey of such objects published in Medieval Ceramics notes that fire covers continued to be made into the 15th century.

The idea is simple.

The roadmap is a result of a year-long collaborative initiative which has seen the UK ruminant sector come together to develop ways of promoting and evidencing responsible antibiotic stewardship.

I'd like to welcome my co-chairs, Mark Jelley, a beef and arable farmer from Northamptonshire and chair of the Cattle Antibiotic Guardian Group, and David Black, who is a farm vet from Cumbria and has just handed over the presidency of the BCVA, British Cattle Vets Association.

Myself, I'm an independent sheep veterinary consultant and both the RSVS Knowledge Clinical Lead for Farm Medicines and the chair of the Sheep Antibiotic Guardian Group.

So, Mark, I'm going to come to you first.

Being a man of few words was your best bet around those sorts of people that I'd infiltrated.

On the night in question, we ended up in a run-down flat on the edge of Northamptonshire, one of those pebble-dashed two-up-two-downs that smells like damp plaster and old cigs.

The windows were boarded up on the ground floor and the only light came from a bare bulb swinging over the kitchen table.

The top man, who everyone called the gaffer, had called what I thought was a routine meeting about the next shipment coming in from the coast.

He pocketed the revolver, then told the three of us to F off, and then as far as I know, the meeting moved on to business as though nothing had happened.

Later, I made the long, careful journey back to the safe house, my hands wouldn't stop shaking.

I debriefed the handlers over the encrypted line describing every detail while the adrenaline still coursed through me, and how 18 months, a year and a half of work had nearly ended against the wall of Northamptonshire.

But even with all I'd gone through, the operation had to continue.

CHAPTER IV.

THE GUNPOWDER PLOT CONSPIRITUS Lord Vaux of Harrowdon, Sir William Catesby of Ashby St. Ledger's, and Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton Hall, all in Northamptonshire, were upon more than one occasion arraigned before the court of the Star Chamber for harbouring Jesuits.

the old mansions ashby st leger's and rushton fortunately still remain intact and preserve many traditions of romanist plots sir william catesby's son robert the chief conspirator is said to have held secret meetings in the curious oak-panelled room over the gate-house of the former which goes by the name of the plot room Once upon a time it was provided with a secret means of escape.

At Rushton Hall a hiding-place was discovered in 1832 behind a lintel over a doorway.