A Catholic, Yaxley had been a clerk of the Signet and had been employed by William Cecil since 1549, travelling in France for him.

Yaxley had placed Mabel Fortescue and other ladies as servants in the Lennox household at Settrington in November 1560.

Yaxley admitted that his missions were intended arrange the marriage of the Queen of Scots with Darnley, that Darnley's religion guaranteed him greater success in his suit than the Earl of Arran, and that Margaret Douglas had many friends in the nurtht.

In the fictional biography Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman by Northcote Parkinson, Bertie comes into the title of Lord Yaxley upon the death of his uncle George Wooster, marries Bobbie Wickham and makes Jeeves the landlord of the Angler's Rest pub, which is on the Yaxley estate.

Thicknesse is replaced by Yaxley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows after Voldemort has Thicknesse appointed the puppet Minister for his regime.

Ultimately fourteen clubs applied to join the league ; eight from the Peterborough & District League ( Downham Town, Huntingdon United, King's Lynn reserves, Ortonians, Somersham Town, Warboys Town and Yaxley – Parson Drove also applied later in the year, but were rejected ), three from the Anglian Combination ( Diss Town, Fakenham Town and Wroxham ) and three from the Essex & Suffolk Border League ( Bury Town reserves, Hatfield Peverel and Little Oakley ).

The scheme's original development will be contained within Yaxley, though it is planned to expand it in two phases following the completion of the Yaxley section ; phase 2 will run along Broadway to Farcet, phase 3 will run from where Daimler Avenue meets Broadway to the A15.

Sir Frederick Ashton ( 1904-1988 ), choreographer with The Royal Ballet, lived at Chandos Lodge in Eye and at Yaxley, where he is buried alongside his sister.

He was born on 29 January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire.

Yaxley has a Non-League football club Yaxley F. C., which play at Leading Drove.

Eye was previously one of the brickmaking villages of the Peterborough area, along with Fletton, Yaxley and Stanground.

From here to Yaxley it passes the Norman Cross Hotel and follows the City of Peterborough and Cambridgeshire boundary, where there is a junction with the B1091 ( for Farcet ).

Katie Brown, Lorian Graham, Kate Nichols, Alexis Rhodes and Louise Yaxley were taken immediately to hospital, with Rhodes and Yaxley suffering major trauma.

In 1959 the line to Wisbech and to Sutton Bridge closed in 1959 along with most of the rest of the M & GNR and Local services on the GNR main line ended with a number of minor stations including Yaxley and Farcet and Tallington being closed.

Francis Yaxley was one notable spy.

A few decided to remain in England and settled near Yaxley and Stilton.

Bertie's Uncle George carries the title of Lord Yaxley.

Bertie's Uncle George is Lord Yaxley, suggesting that he is the eldest living uncle and that Bertie's paternal grandfather likely held the title as well.

Davis is married and has two children, who live in Yaxley near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.

Yaxley is a village in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

Cambridgeshire County Council has proposed a cycleway to be built in Yaxley, as per its 1999 Transport Plan.

* Yaxley F. C.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.

But the luck that had been running their way left him.

His shout had been taken up and repeated.

A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.

The worst part had been the waiting ; ;

The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

And one had been too many.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.

He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.

Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.