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'''Shirburn Castle'''<br> | '''Shirburn Castle'''<br> | ||
The moated, sometime home of the Earls of Macclesfield. It is pictured on the 1797 penny token from the Globe Series issued by Peter Skidmore. | The moated, sometime home of the Earls of Macclesfield. It is pictured on the 1797 penny token from the Globe Series issued by Peter Skidmore. | ||
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| + | A busy market town in the Moorlands..Staffordshire is known | ||
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Roman Whore's Time
English epithet for the Catholic Church, the religion of the hated French; the adoption of "Roman Whore's Time" was Protestant England's long-delayed adoption of Pope Gregory XIII's reform (1582) of the Julian calendar which resulted in the loss of eleven days.
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Time, ye see", says the Landlord "is the money of Science". Cf. thematically, Time, science in Against the Day.
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Shirburn Castle
The moated, sometime home of the Earls of Macclesfield. It is pictured on the 1797 penny token from the Globe Series issued by Peter Skidmore.
Leek, Staffordshire
A busy market town in the Moorlands..Staffordshire is known
as the Queen of the Moorlands
