Chesters

Chi chester. Chiltern. See Cichester. Hist. Brit. (6) 5. 249. A range of hills extending acro the central part of Bucking hams hire from southwest to northeast, south of the Vale of Florence of Worcester, one of the authorities mentioned by Milton in connection with them, speaks of Chiltern our Forest. HoHnshed writes: “Why should I speake of Chiltern, which are eighteen miles at the least from one end of them, which reach from Henlie in Oxfords hire to Duns table in Bedford shire, and are verie well replenished with wood and corne? not withstanding that the most part yeeld a sweet short Aylesbury.. gra profitable for sheep.” (1. 184.).. The hills are some distance north of Milton’s home at Horton, and we have no evidence that he had visited them. 97