Peterborow

English

Proper noun

Peterborow

1. Obsolete spelling of Peterborough.
   • c. 1706, To the Earl of Peterborow, Jonathan Swift:
   • 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:

     Charles Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow […] , with only 280 horse and 950 foot , enterprised and accomplished the Conquest of Valentia

   • 1959, Henry Guppy, editor, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, volume 41, Manchester University Press, page 396:

     The novelties of fenocchio and broccoli seeds Swift probably got from Pope, who in turn may have had them recently from Italy by way of the Earl of Peterborow.