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 Chery and Fair-Star.Chess. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cheshire
 
is the Latin castra’-shire, called by the Romans Deva’na castra (the camp town of Deva, or Dee-mouth).   1
 


 Chery and Fair-Star.Chess. 

 
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