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4. Where:

i: did Loring fight with the crippled Paul de la Fosse?
ii: was MgSO4.7H2O found to be of therapeutic benefit?
iii: did Blanche save the doomed Neville by clinging to the clapper of the curfew bell?
iv: did the riders encounter the gouty Lord Winterton approaching the churchyard steps?
v: did the rector combine his clerical duties with those of a royal appointment at Greenwich?
vi: according to the diarist, did Alice catch and eat a jack pike when expecting a future archbishop?
vii: was which composer's body interred in St Peter's churchyard nearly a year after his death?
viii: was the chalky grave in which the former NSW justice minister's victim was found?
ix: does an edifice recall, nominally, an Uttar Pradesh mausoleum?
x: did council meetings have a condimentary flavour?

Towns or villages in Surrey (possibly including Surrey, Canada)


i: occurs in Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel and the White Company, in Shalford, looked up by [livejournal.com profile] alextiefling
ii: is the chemical formula for Epsom salts (Epsom being a town in Surrey), well guessed by [livejournal.com profile] alextiefling
iii: is a tale from the Wars of the Roses, which took place in at Chertsey Abbey in Chertsey, as known by [livejournal.com profile] kerrypolka
iv: Chiddingfold, thus described by William Cobbett in his Rural Rides, (1821-6), googled by [livejournal.com profile] riverchild
v: Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed was also rector of Burstow, begun by twitter-user petrajane, completed (ie looked up) by [livejournal.com profile] dubdobdee
vi: fits Samuel Pepys: not quite nailed via google by [livejournal.com profile] katstevens
vii: Composer Frederick Delius is buried in the churchyard of Limpsfield, googled by twitter-user petrajane
viii: was the Chalkpit Murder, near Woldingham, in 1946, recognised by twitter-user petrajane
ix: could be the Grand Taj Banquet Hall in Surrey, Canada, googled by [livejournal.com profile] riverchild?
x: Godalming's old town hall is known as "the pepperpot", googled by twitter-user petrajane

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