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Answer for the clue "English city courts transported with glee ", 10 letters:
gloucester

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gloucester is a constituency centred on the cathedral city and county town of the same name, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Richard Graham of the Conservative Party .

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 254673 Housing Units (2000): 95054 Land area (2000): 324.718263 sq. miles (841.016405 sq. km) Water area (2000): 12.201439 sq. miles (31.601580 sq. km) Total area (2000): 336.919702 sq. miles (872.617985 sq. km) Located within: New Jersey ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
English county, Old English Gleawceaster , from Latin Coloniae Glev (2c.), from Glevo , a Celtic name meaning "bright place" (perhaps influenced by Old English gleaw "wise, prudent") + Old English ceaster "Roman town" (see Chester ).

Usage examples of gloucester.

A lady in Gloucester who liked bullterrier crossbreeds wrote to say she might adopt me.

But, like Mary Bastholm before her, Lucy Partington disappeared from somewhere near a bus stop, although this time one on the Evesham road in Cheltenham rather than one on Bristol Road in Gloucester.

West suggested that some were in Gloucester and Cheltenham, others were further away in places where he and his wife had been on holiday, including Snowdonia.

He was going to Gloucester to rescue Mother Coddington from the clutches of the law.

All hope of catching up to Mother Coddington short of Gloucester faded as the weather worsened but Gilbert pushed on at dawn in spite of the storm.

Rosamond would hardly be recognised, she was so little known, but Mary had often visited Gloucester for the purpose of healing some sickness, or anointing some sore, while some of the monks had used her pots of herbage, and salves of the danewort and rue.

Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester, Follow Fluellen closely at the heels.

He holds his manor on the presentation of a clove of gilliflower at the court of Gloucester, and it was granted to his ancestors by John de Burgh, son of Hubert, the first Earl of Kent, and Justiciary of England.

Upton, he was too much frightened just before and after his leaving that place, to draw any other conclusions from thence, than that poor Jones was a downright madman: a conceit which was not at all disagreeable to the opinion he before had of his extraordinary wildness, of which, he thought, his behaviour on their quitting Gloucester so well justified all the accounts he had formerly received.

FARQUHAR And yet he might have borne it, had the weight Of governmental shackles been unclasped, Even partly, from his limbs last Lammastide, When that despairing journey to the King At Gloucester Lodge by Wessex shore was made To beg such.

It embraced portions of the counties of Radnor, Montgomery, Salop, Worcester, and Gloucester, and touched upon that of Brecon.

They were apprehended and brought before the Duke of Gloucester, as Constable of England, at the Tolsey in the midst of the town.

At the said gate a band of west-country clothiers were setting out, hoping to lie the night at Witney, so as to make Gloucester on the morrow.

Rissington, and about the time when Mother Sweetbread was bearing food and clothing down the hill, had come by way of Sherborne to the great heath which lined the highway between Witney and Gloucester, the main road to the west.

So Boy Jim went down to the George, at Crawley, under the charge of Jim Belcher and Champion Harrison, to train for his great fight with Crab Wilson, of Gloucester, whilst every club and bar parlour of London rang with the account of how he had appeared at a supper of Corinthians, and beaten the formidable Joe Berks in four rounds.