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'''Yahoo Music Engine''' is a free music player released by [[Yahoo]] in [[2005]]. The features are currently complete, although the player is still considered to be in the [[Development stage|Beta stage]] due to minor, miscellaneous glitches. Its appearance is somewhat similar to the ''[[MusicMatch Jukebox]]''. This may be related to the fact that MusicMatch, which developed the Jukebox, was purchased by Yahoo in 2004.
:''This article is about '''Royston, Hertfordshire'''. For other uses of the name '''Royston''', see [[Royston (disambiguation)]].''
Its features include CD [[ripping]] and [[CD/DVD authoring|burning]], access to [[Launcast]] and [[Yahoo Unlimited]], playlist creation, transfer of music to portable devices such as [[digital audio player|mp3 players]] and [[USB flash drive]]s. Also the program allows [[Yahoo Messenger]] users to [[streaming media|stream]] music to one another (not to be confused with [[uploading and downloading]] or [[filesharing]]) and browse one another's playlists. Only those subscribed to Yahoo Ultimate are entitled to entire songs, however. Non-subscribers are limited to a thirty second sample.
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'''Royston''' is a [[town]] in the [[England|English]] [[county (England)|county]] of [[Hertfordshire]]. It lies at the crossing of two ancient thoroughfares, [[Ermine Street]] and the [[Icknield Way]] (cum Ashwell Street). A [[cross]], named [[Roisia's Cross]], was erected by the crossroads, and it is from this that the town takes its name. The base of the cross still exists and has been placed by the cross roads.
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:Population: 13,600 (1991)
:OS Reference: TL357406
:Area: 1,933 acres (8 km²)
:Longitude 0°
:Latitude 52° N
:Height above sea level 210 ft (64 m)
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These roads are sometimes called military roads as they were prepared or improved by Roman military forces to facilitate their access to the hinterland of [[Britain]]. The exact site of this cross is unknown but it probably stood in the South East angle of the roads between the dome of [[Royston Cave]] and the line or Ermine Street in the parish of [[Barkway]]. Its name comes from the Lasy Roisia, wife of [[Eudo Dapifer]], seward to [[William the Conqueror]]. In the late twelfth century there is the first mention of ''Crux Roys'' a wayside cross near a priory of [[Austin Canons]].
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The crossroads was linked to five parishes, [[Therfield]], [[Melbourn]], [[Bassingbourn]] and [[Kneesworth]] as well as Barkway. Ralph de Rochester founded the priory which came out of a chapel for three canons later expanded to seven or more [[regular canons]]. Royston also had two hospitals, or free chapels as well as the monastery.
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The hospital of [[St John]] and [[Thomas Becket|St Thomas]] was founded for [[Leprosy|lepers]] and was located to the South west of the junction. It was founded by Richard Argentine, reputedly a [[Knights Templar|Templar]] and one time Sherif of [[Cambridgeshire]].
The Hospital of [[St Nicholas]] was situated in the Cambridgshire side of Royston. It was founded in about [[1200]] probably by Amphelise, a daughter of Richard the Chamberlain. In [[1213]] [[John of England|King John]] granted them a fair to celebrate the feast of St Nicholas ([[May 8]] - [[May 9|9]]). The patronage of the hospital subsequently descended to Sir [[Giles Argentine]] who also held the patronage of the other Hospital. In the fourteenth century, St Nicholas Hospital was put under the jurisdiction of that of St John and St Thomas. The whole was suppressed in [[1547]].
The town having lost is monastic character, the site of the priory was obtained by [[Robert Chester]], a gentleman of the bedchamber to [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], who set up a market. Much of the town was given over to inns catering for travellers mainly going between [[London]] and [[York]]. However on [[April 30]], [[1603]] [[James VI of Scotland]] was travelling down to become King James I of England, pausing overnight at the Chester residence.
Within a few months, even before his coronation, King James decided to take up abode at the priory. He soon had an expanse of buildings which were never extensive enough to cater for a full court, but which provided a suitable spot for hunting, near enough to London for convenience and sufficinetly far away to defer intrusion. Indeed he created a strict restrictions on anyone else from taking game within 14 miles (23 km) of Royston and an elaborate infrastructure was established to support the King in the pursuit of his sport.
[[Anne of Denmark|Queen Anne]] and [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales|Prince Henry]] only visited the town once, in [[1611]] - [[1612]]. Next year the Queen opposed the marriage of her daughter, [[Elizabeth of Bohemia|Princess Elizabeth]] to [[Frederick V, Elector Palatine]]. But the King came to Royston with [[Lord Rochester]] to negotiate the dowry which was signed there. Following the marriage, celebrated on [[St Valentine's day]] [[1613]], the King, [[Charles I of England|Prince Charles]] and Frederick came to stay at Royston.
In [[1742]] a strange cave carved out of the chalk was discovered in the centre of Royston. This cave is located underneath the central crossroads of the town where the [[Icknield Way]] cross [[Ermine Street]].
The carvings in the cave have led to much speculation about the origin and function of the cave. Local historian [[Sylvia Beamon]] in her book ''Royston cave - used by saints or sinners'' [[1993]] contends that there is a link with the [[Knights Templar]].
Rosia's Cross has led some experts to suggest a link with the [[Rosicrucians]], whose central texts include a reference to a cave with a tomb therein. This has been fuelled by the fact that the marriage between [[Frederick V, Elector Palatine]] and [[Elizabeth of Bohemia]] daughter of [[James I of England]] was negotiated in the town (James I had a palace just by the cross roads.) [[Frances Yates]] in her book ''[[The Rosicrucian Enlightenment]]'' has shown the importance of this marriage to the Rosicrucians as Frederick V's claim to the throne of [[Bohemia]] plunged [[Germany]] into the [[Thirty Years War]].
On [[August 22]], [[1992]] the cave was used as the site for the reappearance of the [[London Psychogeographical Association]] after 35 years of [[occultation]].
[[Category:Towns in Hertfordshire]]
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