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Leicester and trial
Dudley won, and possibly pressured, his mother to support his cause, so she declared in writing ( she did not attend the trial personally ) that Leicester had solemnly contracted to marry her in Cannon Row, Westminster in 1571, and that they were married at Esher, Surrey, " in wintertime " in 1573.
At the 1587 trial of Mary Stuart he acted as a commissioner and was asked by the Scottish Queen to plead for her with his brother, the absent Earl of Leicester.
Lady Sheffield declared in writing ( she did not attend the trial personally ) that Leicester had solemnly contracted to marry her in Cannon Row, Westminster in 1571, and that they were married at Esher, Surrey, " in wintertime " in 1573.
After a short spell on trial at Leicester City, Slater joined Watford.
He was also on trial with League 1 side Leicester City where he would have linked up with Nigel Pearson whom he played under at Newcastle.
His eldest son, Edward, was put on his trial in 1589 on the curious charge of having contrived the death of the Earl of Leicester by witchcraft, in revenge for the earl's supposed hostility to Sir James Croft.

Leicester and which
Leicester is credited for having " dislodged Oxford from the pro-French group ", i. e., the group at court which favoured Elizabeth's marriage to the Duke of Anjou.
On 16 April 1963, an astonishing game at Filbert Street against Manchester United, which saw both Ken Keyworth and Denis Law score a hat-trick each, ended in a 4 – 3 victory for Leicester, which meant Leicester sat top of the First Division and 11 days later Banks put in one of the performances of his career to keep out Liverpool as Leicester beat them 1 – 0 in the FA Cup semi-final despite being completely outplayed all game.
He went to the City of Leicester Boys ' Grammar School ( now City of Leicester College ) on Downing Drive in Evington, inside the borough of Leicester due to his preference for football rather than rugby, which was the main sport of most schools near his home.
Lineker was made a freeman of the City of Leicester ( which entitles him to graze his sheep — should he have any — on Town Hall Square ) in 1995 and he is often referred to as " Leicester's favourite son ".
In October 2002, Lineker backed a £ 5 million bid to rescue his former club Leicester City which recently had gone into administration, describing his involvement as charity rather than an ego trip.
By the turn of 1992 they were top of the Second Division, and then suffered a dip in form before recovering to qualify for the playoffs, during which Dalglish led Blackburn into the new Premier League by beating Leicester City 1 – 0 in the Second Division Play-off final at Wembley.
Elizabeth visited in 1566 and 1568, by which time Leicester had commissioned the royal architect Henry Hawthorne to produce plans for a dramatic, classical extension of the south side of the inner court.
He took Leicester, which lies between them, but found his resources exhausted.
From 1138 onwards, Stephen gave them the earldoms of Worcester, Leicester, Hereford, Warwick and Pembroke, which — especially when combined with the possessions of Stephen's new ally, Prince Henry, in Cumberland and Northumbria — created a wide block of territory to act as a buffer zone between the troubled south-west, Chester and the rest of the kingdom.
The stretch of the canal which passes through the centre of Leicester known as the ' Mile Straight ' is home to Leicester Rowing Club, a rowing and sculling club formed in 1882.
Jeffreys had a " eureka moment " in his lab in Leicester after looking at the X-ray film image of a DNA experiment at 9: 05 am on Monday 10 September 1984, which unexpectedly showed both similarities and differences between the DNA of different members of his technician's family.
Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet is a boys ' grammar school in Barnet, North London, which was founded in 1573 by Edward Underne, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and others, in the name of Queen Elizabeth I.
Mary's Protestant advisors warmed to the prospect of having Dudley as their prince, and in September 1564 he was created Earl of Leicester, a move, in planning for years, which made him more acceptable to Mary.
The town of Warwick felt this during a magnificent visit by the Earl in 1571 to celebrate the feast of the Order of Saint Michael, with which Leicester had been invested by the French king in 1566.
The Anjou courtship, at the end of which Leicester and several dozen noblemen and gentlemen escorted the French prince in triumph to Antwerp, also touched the question of English intervention in the Netherlands to help the rebellious provinces.
After Mary Stuart's flight into England ( 1568 ) Leicester was, unlike Cecil, in favour of restoring her as Scottish queen under English control, preferably with a Protestant English husband — as long as he himself would not be the intended bridegroom ( which had been suggested ).

Leicester and nine
Reynolds died on 23 February 1792 in his house in Leicester Fields in London between eight and nine in the evening.
According to biographical research of Hugh Noel Williams, Charles had not arrived at The Hague until the middle of September 1648 — seven months before the child's birth ( but he met Lucy for the first time nine months before ) — and some unfounded voices whispered that Lucy Walter had in the summer of 1648 been mistress of Colonel Robert Sidney, a younger son of the Earl of Leicester.
The 2011-12 season saw Harlequins add their name to the trophy on their first attempt wining 30-23 against the nine times champions Leicester.
Although Red Leicester can be young or " old ", aged anywhere from four to nine months, the young Leicesters at the start of that range will be very mild: they often require at least six months to develop a tang.
He stood out amongst his peers and at the age of nine he accepted a place at Leicester City's football academy.
Home Secretary James Chuter Ede announced that the Boundary Commission would be invited to consider an additional constituency to each of nine Cities, including Leicester.
In 1587 he went as ambassador to the United Provinces, upon their complaint against the Earl of Leicester ; but, though he performed his trust with integrity, the favourite had sufficient influence to get him recalled ; and on his return, he was ordered to confinement in his own house, for nine or ten months.
On 1 October, after less than three months in charge, Sousa was fired by Leicester, after a poor start to the season, with the team having won only once in his first nine league games.
Jóhannes Karl finished the season as joint top goal scorer with nine goals in all competitions for Leicester.
Quinn's stay at Leicester lasted less than nine months, and he scored a mere six goals from 31 appearances, most of which were as a substitute.
The family moved to Leicester House in 1742, and it was to remain the prince ’ s home until his death nine years later, and that of his widow until her death in 1764.
In November 2006 an inspection report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons criticised Leicester Prison after nine inmates died there in a 28-month period.

Leicester and women
The 1969 crime novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, written by Arthur LeBern, is loosely based on the case ; the protagonist strangles women with his necktie.
In 1992, McLean was working as the head doorman at the The Hippodrome in London's Leicester Square, when he ejected a man named Gary Humphries who was reportedly on drugs, streaking through the nightclub and harassing women and urinating on the floor.
The camera shows shots of young women, and passes through arcades and cinemas in Leicester Square.

Leicester and were
Charlton was related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn, was his mother's cousin.
Oxford was sympathetic to the proposed marriage, Leicester and his nephew Philip Sidney were adamantly opposed to it.
Led by University of Leicester Archaeological Services ( ULAS ), experts set out to locate the Greyfriars site and discover whether his remains were still interred.
Simon de Montfort and Eleanor of Leicester had seven children, many of whom were notable in their own right:
To remove this threat to Habsburg and Valois suitors, between 1565 and 1578, four German and French princesses were mooted as brides for Leicester, as a consolation for giving up Elizabeth and his resistance to her foreign marriage projects.
English relations with Morocco were also handled by Leicester.
The Dutch nobility were astonished: even the Prince of Orange would not have dared such an outrage, Leicester was warned ; but, he wrote, he would not be intimidated by the fact that Hemart " was of a good house ".
Some of the most often-quoted characterisations of Leicester, such as that he " was wont to put up all his passions in his pocket ", his nickname of " the Gypsy ", and Elizabeth's " I will have here but one mistress and no master "- reprimand to him, were contributed by Sir Henry Wotton and Sir Robert Naunton almost half a century after the Earl's death.
In many cases his ideas were informal: at Holkham Hall the architect Matthew Brettingham recalled that " the general ideas were first struck out by the Earls of Burlington and Leicester, assisted by Mr. William Kent.
As a child, James was a pawn in the power politics of Provence, where his father was engaged in struggles helping the Cathar heretics of Albi against the Albigensian Crusaders led by Simon IV de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who were trying to exterminate them.
Granite millstones were quarried in the early Iron Age, and under the Romans stone was quarried for building in Leicester.
However, in 943, when Amlaíb had marched on to Leicester, one of the Boroughs, he and Wulfstan were besieged by Edmund and managed to escape only by a hair's breadth.
York, Salisbury and Salisbury's eldest son, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, were threatened when a Great Council was called to meet on 21 May in Leicester ( away from Somerset's enemies in London ).
Although no significant battles of the American Revolution were fought in the area, Leicester citizens played a large role in the conflict's start.
The village of Greenville is now considered part of Rochdale, as it falls within the 01542 ZIP code ; the former villages of Mannville and Lakeside were destroyed to construct the Kettle Brook reservoir system, in northeastern Leicester, to supply water to Worcester.
Large parts of both Paxton and Auburn were also once part of Leicester.
The new archdiocese included the sees of Worcester, Hereford, Leicester, Lindsey, Dommoc and Elmham ; these were essentially the midland Anglian territories.
10 and 21, conducted by James Loughran and Eric Pinkett respectively, were recorded at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester.
Waleran and his twin brother Robert, Earl of Leicester, were Henry's chief rivals for Stephen's favour, and Henry disliked both of them intensely.
Towards the end of the war, practices were changing for the worse across all sides ; a rebellious Leicester was retaken by the Prince in May 1645, and no attempt was made to limit the subsequent killing and plunder.
In 1899, the Derwent Valley Water Board was set up to supply water to Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield, and the two Gothic-style dams were built across the River Derwent to create Howden Reservoir ( 1912 ) and Derwent Reservoir ( 1916 ).
The reservoirs were originally intended to supply water to the cities of Sheffield, Derby, Leicester and Nottingham.

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