At the queen's annual gift exchange with members of her court the following New Year's, Gascoigne gave her a manuscript of Hemetes which he had translated into Latin, Italian, and French.

The book purports to be an anthology of courtly poets, gathered and edited by Gascoigne and two other editors known only by the initials " H. W.

For reasons that are still unclear, the book was republished, with certain additions and deletions, two years later under the alternative title, The Posies of George Gascoigne, Esquire.

Seaman saved two spot-kicks in the tournament ; the first a penalty in normal play from Scotland's Gary McAllister in a group match, while England were 1 – 0 up ( Paul Gascoigne scored soon after to make it 2 – 0 ).

Manager Jack Charlton upon first seeing him, noted his weight problems, to which he threatened to kick Gascoigne out of the club within two weeks if he did not get a handle on it.

Gascoigne forced himself to work extremely hard over the next two weeks and eventually Charlton picked him as a substitute for the Tyne-Wear derby with Sunderland, although he did not make it onto the pitch.

In July 1994, in interview with a Sunday newspaper, Gascoigne admitted beating her on a regular basis for two years.

Gascoigne adopted Sheryl's two children from her first marriage.

In April 2009, Gascoigne made two media appearances, appearing to be in recovery, on the UK mid-day programme Loose Women and on the BBC football program Match of the Day 2.

In the late 1630s, Gascoigne, was working on a Keplerian optical arrangement when a thread from a spider ’ s web happened to become caught at exactly the combined optical focal points of the two lenses.

Gascoigne then realised that by introducing two points, whose separation could be adjusted using a screw, he could measure the size of the image enclosed by them.

In 1642, civil war broke out in England, and Gascoigne received a commission as Providore for Yorkshire in the army of King Charles I. Crabtree lived in Broughton, just outside Manchester which was on the parliamentary side and all correspondence between the two ceased.

He also appeared in FIFA Street 2, with legends like Paul Gascoigne, Hans Krankl, Abedi Pelé and Carlos Alberto, FIFA 08, FIFA 09 and FIFA Street 3 ( in the " Classic XI " for the first two, and the " Classics " in the latter ).

* 5 December 2005 — Paul Gascoigne resigns after just over a month in charge of Kettering Town, during which time they won two, lost two and drew two of their six games.

Towards the southern boundary of the village lie the Aberford Almshouses, built by the two Oliver Gascoigne sisters Mary Isabella and Elizabeth in 1844 to commemorate their father, Richard Oliver Gascoigne and two brothers who died in quick succession in 1842 and 1843.

Former England international Paul Gascoigne played four games for them in 2003, scoring two goals, before returning to England after falling out with the club.

One of English footballs greatest talents, Paul Gascoigne or ' Gazza ', emerged as a youngster at the club during this period, under manager Jack Charlton ( who later went on to take Republic of Ireland to two World Cup finals tournaments ).

With a squad featuring a pony-tailed goalkeeper ( based on David Seaman ); Kevin Tonkinson, an alcoholic Mackem ( based on Paul Gascoigne ); Rufus Smalls, a striker going through a very poor run of form ( based on Andy Cole ); Steve Harper, a playboy midfielder ( based on David Beckham ) and Gary Wackett, an extremely aggressive centre-back ( based on Stuart Pearce / Vinnie Jones ); he plays an old-fashioned 4-4-2 formation and attempts to bring football back to where it belongs.

Griff Rhys-Jones plays the title character, a parody of real-life University Challenge presenter Bamber Gascoigne, while Jones ' partner-in-comedy Mel Smith has a cameo as the security guard.

With managers such as Jack Charlton and then Willie McFaul, Newcastle remained in the top-flight, until key players such as Waddle, Beardsley and Paul Gascoigne were sold, and the team was relegated once more at in 1989.

In 2006, it was alleged that Gallagher had a drunken fight with Paul Gascoigne at the Groucho Club which ended with Gallagher setting off a fire extinguisher in Gascoigne's face.

Produced by Granada Television and filmed at Granada Studios in Manchester since its inception, University Challenge aired for 913 episodes on ITV from 1962 to 1987, presented by quiz master Bamber Gascoigne.

William Gascoigne was the first who commanded a chief advantage of the form of telescope suggested by Kepler: that a small material object could be placed at the common focal plane of the objective and the eyepiece.

He was the eldest son of Sir John Gascoigne of Cardington, Bedfordshire and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and on leaving the university is supposed to have joined the Middle Temple.

George Whetstone says that Sir John Gascoigne disinherited his son on account of his follies, but by his own account he was obliged to sell his patrimony to pay the debts contracted at court.

* The Works of George Gascoigne at Luminarium

* The Gascoigne Seminar “ is a discussion list for scholars working on George Gascoigne and other early Elizabethan writers, to facilitate the exchange of ideas about the generation at the very beginning of the English literary renaissance .”

*‘ Gascoigne, George ’, Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edn, 29 vols ( Cambridge: at the University Press ) ( 1910 ), pp. 493 – 4.

Gascoigne was his guest at Walcot when he died in 1577, and Whetstone commemorated his friend in a long elegy.

On 24 February 2008, Bruno offered his support to former footballer Paul Gascoigne, who on 21 February had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act Bruno also spoke on his own personal experiences in the mental heath system at a conference run by Hari Sewell, on 22 June 2009.

The character's overseas debut, now as Edna Everage, was in the early 1960s at comedian Peter Cook's nightclub, The Establishment, in London's West End, where she received a poor review from Bamber Gascoigne, then the drama critic for The Spectator.

Gascoigne started playing football at the age of four, playing in the street and nearby park.

Around this time he first drank alcohol, getting drunk on a bottle of vodka stolen by a friend at age fourteen, but ill effects led to Gascoigne swearing off alcohol for life – ( he did not drink again until he was eighteen ).

Willie McFaul took over as manager soon after and awarded Gascoigne his first start in the black and white shirt, on the opening day of the 1985 – 86 season at Southampton.

Newcastle finished 11th in the First Division that season and, at the end of it, Gascoigne was featured on the front cover of the Rothmans Football Yearbook.

Gascoigne scored six goals on the road to the final, including a spectacular free-kick against Arsenal in the semi-final at Wembley.

In January 1998 Gascoigne again courted controversy after he played a mock flute ( symbolic of the flute-playing of Orange Order marchers ) during an Old Firm match at Celtic Park, which was televised live on Sky Sports.

In 2006 Gascoigne was inducted into the Rangers Hall of Fame alongside former teammate Brian Laudrup at a ceremony in the Glasgow Hilton.

With the score at 0 – 0 towards the end of extra time, Gascoigne got the ball in the middle of the pitch and attacked, winning a free kick.

Gascoigne was at the centre of the action again when he gave away a penalty which Cameroon scored from.

Hoddle later hit back at Gascoigne, declaring publicly that it was the latter's own fault that he was not included in the squad.

Gascoigne was never seen at a Garforth Town match, and after weeks of talks between his agent and the club, he decided to turn down the offer, though reiterating his desire to return to football management and insisting that he had not made a U-turn over taking the job, stating that some people ( such as the News of the World ) had jumped the gun in announcing his appointment.