Leicester's Commonwealth (originally titled The Copie of a Leter wryten by a Master of Arts of Cambrige) (1584) is a scurrilous book that circulated in...
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lust for the English throne, and when the Catholic anti-Leicester libel, Leicester's Commonwealth, was published in 1584 Dudley believed that Mary was involved...
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Lettice Knollys (redirect from Lettice, Countess of Leicester)
elaborated on years later in Leicester's Commonwealth, a Catholic underground libel against the Protestant Earl of Leicester that satirically detailed his...
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evolved early, and Leicester's Commonwealth, a notorious and influential libel of 1584 against Robert Dudley, by then Earl of Leicester, perpetuated this...
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(2016 est.) compared to Leicester's 348,300 at the same date. Nonetheless, Coventry has an area one third greater than Leicester's, approximately equivalent...
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Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and this led to rumours that she had been poisoned, which were included in the book Leicester's Commonwealth. There is no historical...
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under hire by the Earl of Leicester to kill Doughty. According to the contemporary screed Leicester's Commonwealth (1584), Leicester desired Doughty's death...
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and were discovered, enraging Sheffield. The anonymous author of Leicester’s Commonwealth, the 1584 pamphlet attacking Dudley, suggested that while Sheffield's...
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suggested as the author of Leicester's Commonwealth, an anonymous work which attacked Queen Elizabeth's favourite, the Earl of Leicester. Arundell was the son...
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Scotland. Leicester's Commonwealth (1584), for example, an illegally circulated tract attacking the queen's favourite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, devoted...
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this legal feud is made in Leicester's Commonwealth where the anonymous author, alluding to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, writes: What shall I speak...
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of the plays Richard II and Richard III, The Isle of Dogs and Leicester's Commonwealth, but these had been removed. On the outer sheet was scrawled repeatedly...
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Ashgate Publishing Ltd., ISBN 978-0-7546-5088-1 Peck, D. C. (1985). Leicester's Commonwealth: The Copy of a Letter Written by a Master of Art of Cambridge (1584)...
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anonymous and hostile Secret Memoirs of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester or Leicester's Commonwealth. Kenilworth was published in three volumes by Constable...
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Leicester, England is an ethnically and culturally diverse city. It is the thirteenth most populous city in the United Kingdom. Leicester's total population...
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this period that Persons was involved in the work later known as Leicester's Commonwealth. Distributed covertly, it came to light in 1584. Persons is now...
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Lord Leicester's heir, Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, permitted a small amount of retail development in booths along the front of Leicester House...
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Menin Gate (category Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials)
Missing, is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose...
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involved in the production of Leicester's Commonwealth, a scurrilous tract attacking Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth's powerful favourite...
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April, 1584. He was condemned for keeping a book called My Lord Leicester's Commonwealth and for having assisted William Dean. He was hanged at Tyburn 30...
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meanwhile Drake had died. In 1706 Drake had also edited an edition of Leicester's Commonwealth, with preface. A medical treatise called Anthropologia Nova, or...
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Tony Sibson (category Boxers from Leicester)
Tony Sibson (born 9 April 1958, in Leicester, England) is a former professional boxer. Tony Sibson was Commonwealth and European champion and a three-time...
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the leases is briefly mentioned in Leicester's Commonwealth (1584), where the author refers to the Earl of Leicester's oppressive 'dealing with Master Richard...
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fought in the area, Leicester citizens played a large role in the conflict's start. At a Committee of Safety meeting in 1774, Leicester's Colonel William...
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Devil. The author of Leicester's Commonwealth accuses him of employing the art of "figuring" to further the earl of Leicester's unlawful designs, and...
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the most approved Anathomistes, 1578, fol. Gordon 1886, p. 396. Leicester's Commonwealth 1584 Gordon, Alexander (1886). "Borgarucci, Giulio" . In Stephen...
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Mathew Tait (category Commonwealth Games silver medallists in rugby sevens)
England's rugby sevens team. He starred at the sevens tournament in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, finishing as the tournament's top try-scorer, with...
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Domestic Calendar of Patent Rolls Peck, D C, Leicester's Commonwealth 1985. Kendall A, Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester 1980. The National Archives, Probate 6/3...
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champion; born in Leicester) Rendall Munroe (born 1980) (EBU and Commonwealth super bantamweight boxing champion; born in Leicester) Louis Norman (born...
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centuries. In the Middle Ages, its site next to Leicester's Guild Hall, ensured that St Martin's became Leicester's civic church with strong ties to the merchants...
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