Glocester

English Etymology Variant of en Gloucester. The town was named after Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester. Proper noun en Q2569213en town co/Providence County s/Rhode Island c/USA. en Gloucester. I iv 32 [A]s vve pact along, / Vpon the giddy footing of the hatches: / Me thought that Gloceſter ſtumbled, and in ſtumbling, / Stroke me that thought to ſtay him ouer board, / Into the tumbling billovves of the maine. en 1632 Sermons of the Right Reuerend Father in God Miles Smith, Late Lord Bishop of Glocester.Transcribed out of His Originall Manuscripts, and Now Published for the Common Good. London Printed by Elizabeth Allde for Robert Allot,dwelling at the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard 1203195374 1 2 XX 355 The princeſs fell immediately into cloſe connexions vvith the cardinal and his party, the dukes of Somerſet, Suffolk, and Buckingham; vvho, fortified by her povverful friendſhip, reſolved on the final ruin of the duke of Gloceſter.