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In the UK, the – cester suffix flags Roman legionary camps or towns, while in Greece – kastro indicates castles and fortifications, as well as ancient refuges on mountaintops.

Archaeology, Names, and Words 2009

Shakespeare acknowledged the Machiavellian aspects of his concept of this king openly in the words which in Henry VI (Part III, Act III, Scene ii, lines 182-95) he put into the mouth of the young Duke of Glou - cester:

MACHIAVELLISM FELIX GILBERT 1968

By a village called Bos - worthe, in a greate plaine, méete for twoo battailes: by Lei - cester this field was pitched, wherin king Richard manfully fightyng hande to hande, with the Erle of Richmonde, was

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

Now boys, there is a jolly time in Glou-cester tonight

Schooner E.A. Horton 1941

I wandered round Li-cester Square from six o'clock till nine

Heaven Will Protect an Honest Girl 1933

In 491 they besieged Andres-cester, "and slew all that dwelt therein, so that not a single Briton was there left."

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

Wude cester is no doubt Outchester, and other doubtful instances might easily be recognised by local antiquaries, though they may readily escape the general archæologist.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

Syddena ceaster or Sidna cester -- the earliest see of the Lincolnshire diocese -- has likewise dropped out of human memory; though Mr. Pearson suggests that it may be identical with

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

No doubt the Wroken-sætas called the ruined Roman fort by the analogous name of Wroken ceaster; and this would slowly become Wrok ceaster, Wrok-cester, and Wroxeter, by the ordinary abbreviating tendency of the Welsh borderlands.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

Thence it passed rapidly through the stages of Exe ceaster and Exe cester till it finally settled down into Exeter.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873