Banbury, a market-town in Oxfordshire, celebrated for its cross and its cakes.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bampton Lectures * BancaBanbury in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
Links here from Chalmers
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Allibond, Peter
Ashwell, George
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Compton, Spencer
Fell, Dr. John
Fiennes, Nathanael
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