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Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… your Majesty shall never be able to sift the corn from the chaff. I know there be some that will come in to my Lord …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… loyalty to the King. Many support him, but there is chaff amongst the grain, as the last six days have shown. The …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… of rovers, if there was no law to punish offences, yet chaff would be severed from the good corn, the bark from the … had that the corn should not be cast away because of the chaff, nor the kernel because of the shell, nor the body of …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… Some others have said that the next wind will blow the chaff from the corn. The Earl of Morton greatly distrusts the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… is rather more recent (1862). Their products included a chaff-cutter which was mentioned at Warminster Fair in 1875 … in John Wallis Titt's catalogue of c. 1890. This shows chaff-cutters of an elaborate design combining three or four … winnowing machines, ploughs, harrows, horse hoes, chaff-cutters, oil-cake breakers, and grinding mills. C. N. …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… of delivery). 42. Edm. Dey. Reversion of the office of Chaff-wax in Chancery now held by John Hillis, jun., by pat. …