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Fix this textBEDFORD'S STATELY HOME,
Fix this textWOBURN ABBEY
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Fix this textDunstable. The estate has been in the possession
Fix this textof the same family since the middle of the 16th
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Fix this textIt was Francis, the fourth Earl, who, in 1626,
Fix this textfleeing with his wife and children from the plague
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Fix this texta home on the site of the derelict Abbey, which
Fix this texthad been founded in 1145 as an offshoot of
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Fix this textThe Queen s Saloon commemorates a visit of
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