Leicester
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the Town of Leicestor · the city of Leicester
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Town, site of an engagement on 8 June 1645 listed in the charge.
and upon or about the 8th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1645, at the Town of Leicestor;
that, in Leicestershire, the city of Leicester is to return one member instead of two, the number of members allotted to the county being increased from four to five;
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
English town associated with the Radicals who resisted compulsory vaccination.
Yet the Radicals of Leicester, in the name of freedom or of conscience, claim the right and, with the connivance of politicians who are fishing for votes, exercise the power to propagate small-pox.