1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer iii. ii. 36 Thou Peerless Princess of Salopian Plains.

c1814 R. Southey Affair Arroyo Molinos 38 Salopian vales.

1886 T. L. Kington-Oliphant New Eng. I. i. 9 A Salopian bard.

1850 J. Marryat Coll. towards Hist. Pottery & Porcelain ix. 182 The Salopian ware is very similar to the Derby in pattern and colouring.

1857 J. Marryat Hist. Pottery & Porcelain (ed. 2) xii. 297 The early Salopian porcelain was originally made..at Caughley.

1910 J. F. Blacker ABC of collecting Old Eng. China (ed. 3) III. 49 Salopian blue is somewhat similar in tone to that of Worcester.

1933 W. B. Honey Eng. Pottery & Porcelain ii. xii. 190 The Caughley porcelain was known as ‘Salopian’.

1933 W. B. Honey Eng. Pottery & Porcelain ii. xii. 191 The Salopian blue-painting..was mostly cribbed from Worcester and Chantilly.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 354/1 Some Liverpool factories and that at Caughley (the ‘Salopian’ factory)..may be regarded as offshoots of Worcester.

1869 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 25 i. 174 Nor do we find any representatives of the Permian beds referable to the Salopian type to the north of this part of England.

1879 C. Lapworth in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3 Table facing p. 455 Silurian System: Middle Division (Salopian).

1880 C. Lapworth in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5 48 The second natural division of the Silurian system is undoubtedly Murchison's Great Mudstone series, which includes the so-called Wenlock and Lower Ludlow groups... In Shropshire this great mudstone or Salopian formation is by far the most important physical group in the Silurian.

1883 J. E. Marr Classif. Cambrian & Silurian Rocks 42 No higher Salopian beds, and no Downtonian beds occur in North Wales, partly perhaps owing to subsequent denudation.

1905 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. s.v. In the Lake District and in Southern Scotland the rocks of Salopian age attain to a thickness of many thousand feet.

1912 A. J. Jukes-Browne Student's Handbk. Stratigr. Geol. 165 Salopian Series.—The succession of limestones and shales which form this series at Woolhope and Malvern.

1929 O. T. Jones in Evans & Stubblefield Handbk. Geol. Great Brit. iii. iv. 92 In certain areas Lapworth's term Salopian is sometimes useful, since the line of separation between Wenlock and Ludlow, represented by that between Lower and Upper Salopian, is not easy to determine.

1940 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 95 335 (heading) The geology of the Colwyn Bay district: a study of submarine slumping during the Salopian period.

1940 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 95 374 The strike of these structures..indicates that the floor of the Salopian area in the Colwyn Bay region sloped from north to south.

1971 Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 127 104 Lapworth's..term Salopian was eventually extended upwards by O. T. Jones..to include the whole of the Ludlow as well as the Wenlock. It is thus still employed from time to time... It finds no place in our classification.

1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 65 Ay, ay, come will you March my Salopian?

1886 T. L. Kington-Oliphant New Eng. I. i. 6 William de Shoreham..uses e like the Salopians.

1866 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 432/2 He has left us specimens of Latin verses of which even modern Salopians might be proud.

1898 Public School Mag. Dec. 487/2 ‘Swilling’, a substitute for baths, is still an institution, of which every Salopian is proud.

1932 Pendlebury & West Shrewsbury School xi. 82 Nearly 2,000 Salopians saw active service... A sum of money was set aside to assist in the education of the sons of Old Salopians who had been killed.

1964 P. Cowburn Salopian Anthol. p. vi This book..is to enable Salopians..to know what has been written about this particular school.

1905 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. s.v. The rocks above the Salopians are now classed as Downtonian and the remainder of the Silurian Rocks below as Valentian.