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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… been blessed with godly inspiration to discern cheese from chalk, the matters being so evidently discoursed by learned … as to cause Leicester and Burghley to know cheese from chalk in religion, are Harding, Sanders, Stapleton, and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
The Environs of London
… being, in some parts of the parish, gravel; in some, chalk; and in others, a stiff clay. Manors. It appears, by … you see. This house was built chiefly of flint, mixed with chalk, and very strongly cemented. Sir Robert Aguillon was …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and Milton. PAGE 325. From the immense quantities of chalk which has been cut away from these pits in different … and sharp as thorns. The struta of flints, usual among the chalk, are napped into gun flints, in the midst of which are found compleat cockle shells filled with chalk, and sometimes of so large a size as to be esteemed …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… among them 'Cull-pepper's Dish'. To the N. the land, on Chalk, slopes gently to the river Piddle and then rises to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the banks of the River Ray. Or again, compare the upper chalk and flint of the Chiltern districts from Goring to … variable, but the sub-soil may be safely said to be of chalk, and although some fields are covered with brown flints … soil in the north, the stonebrash in the middle, and the chalk and gravel soils of the south. To provide keep for …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… there were fragments of a forest-pasture region. The Chalk Country of south Wiltshire formed the centre of a great … countries of which large parts were in Wiltshire were the Chalk and Cheese countries. These were truly as different as chalk and cheese. Each had its own life and its own history. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… could only be improved by that process. 12 Yet in the chalk country, away from good sheep downs, the typical three- … Clay and Coral Rag soils, most marked among those on the chalk. Parishes with no recent inclosure, for example … emerges. Agricultural progress is most noticeable in the chalk lands of the south where the biggest changes took place …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… across county boundaries. Thus the fortunes of southern, Chalk, Wiltshire have been linked to those of the similar … of the area of Wiltshire. If it is assumed that south, or Chalk, Wiltshire covered two-thirds of the county, and that … crops for the Amesbury Union, selected as typical of the chalk district, and 45 per cent. permanent grass and 27 per …