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He asked a page and was told Her Majesty was watching a play in one of the antechambers From the doorway Hal saw her, seated with the Earl of Leicester, closely flanked by a half dozen other nobles.
Dearly Beloved 2010
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And Mary, a legendary beauty, also has a strong claim for the affections of Elizabeth's current favorite, the Earl of Leicester.
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Endymion and Cynthia as told by Lyly, curious students tracing behind it all the details of the _affaire_ between the Earl of Leicester and Queen
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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Robert, Earl of Mellent, created by Henry I, Earl of Leicester, who married a granddaughter of King Henry I of France and his Queen, who was
The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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This fief of the Earl of Leicester was but one of the many acquisitions by which Philip Augustus gradually bought out the feudal barons and made sure of Normandy.
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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Thus in life we are often surprised out of long years of prejudice, and even of dislike and suspicion, by some fortuitous incident, which might have chanced to two who had every impulse towards each other, not such antagonisms as lay between Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and this
Michel and Angele — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897
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The Earl of Leicester, so long counted astute, clearheaded, and well - governed, had been suddenly foisted out of balance, shaken from his imperious composure, tortured out of an assumed and persistent urbanity, by the presence in Greenwich Palace of a Huguenot exile of no seeming importance, save what the Medici grimly gave him by desiring his head.
Michel and Angele — Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Thus in life we are often surprised out of long years of prejudice, and even of dislike and suspicion, by some fortuitous incident, which might have chanced to two who had every impulse towards each other, not such antagonisms as lay between Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and this
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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The Earl of Leicester, so long counted astute, clearheaded, and well - governed, had been suddenly foisted out of balance, shaken from his imperious composure, tortured out of an assumed and persistent urbanity, by the presence in Greenwich Palace of a Huguenot exile of no seeming importance, save what the Medici grimly gave him by desiring his head.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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He was disappointed in an attempt to obtain possession of Dover; but nearly succeeded in surprising the Earl of Leicester, who with a small body of forces had marched from Kenilworth to Southwark.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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