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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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'''Leek, Staffordshire'''<br>
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A busy market town in the Moorlands..Staffordshire is known
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as the Queen of the Moorlands

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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

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