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A murmur of assent rose from the Leicestrian faction, which the friends of Sussex dared not oppose.
Kenilworth 2004
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The Leicestrian period, despite its record of incompetence and failure, had however the distinction of being the period which for good or for evil gave birth to the republic of the
History of Holland George Edmundson 1889
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Sonoy, however -- who was so stanch a Leicestrian, that his Spanish contemporaries uniformly believed him to be an Englishman -- held out for a long time, as will be seen, against the threats and even the armed demonstrations of
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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They knew that in Utrecht the Leicestrian party were about to offer the Queen the sovereignty of their Province, without conditions, but they were determined that neither Queen Elizabeth nor any other monarch should ever reign in the Netherlands, except under conditions to be very accurately defined and well secured.
History of the United Netherlands, 1586e John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Leicestrian, and had imbibed much of the Earl's resentment against the leading politicians of the States.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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They knew that in Utrecht the Leicestrian party were about to offer the Queen the sovereignty of their Province, without conditions, but they were determined that neither Queen Elizabeth nor any other monarch should ever reign in the Netherlands, except under conditions to be very accurately defined and well secured.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Leicestrian designs and meant to make himself, by such steps, sovereign of the country.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1617 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The Stadholder warmly repudiated Leicestrian designs, and declared that he had been always influenced by a desire to serve his country and maintain the Reformed religion.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1617 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Leicestrian projects, "Leycestrana consilia" -- for the Earl's plots to gain possession of Leyden and Utrecht had never been forgotten -- while the Prince and those who acted with him asserted distinctly that it was the purpose of Barneveld to pave the way for restoring the Spanish sovereignty and the Popish religion so soon as the Truce had reached its end?
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1617 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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And then he went into particulars, and discussed, 'more suo,' the constitutional question, in which various Leicestrian counsellors seconded him.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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