Essex left Sir Philip Skippon, his Sergeant Major General of Foot, in command while he himself escaped to Plymouth in a fishing boat.

Widowed, weary of the unsettled life of a courtier, and anxious to provide for his children and himself, Oxford wrote to Burghley outlining a plan to purchase the manoral lands of Denbigh, in Wales, if the Queen would consent, offering to pay for them by commuting his £ 1, 000 annuity and agreeing to abandon his suit to regain the Forest of Essex.

In October 1595 Oxford wrote to his brother in law, Sir Robert Cecil of friction between himself and the ill-fated Earl of Essex, partly over his claim to the property, terming him ' the only person that I dare rely upon in the court '.

However, they spared Vortigern, who ransomed himself by giving the Saxons Essex, Sussex, Middlesex, and other unnamed districts.

Sidney, Leicester's nephew, died at the Battle of Zutphen in which Essex also distinguished himself.

Thanking God again, Cecil expressed his gratitude that Essex was exposed as a traitor while he himself was found an honest man.

Nonetheless, rumors of a 1953 demo recording by Haley persist to this day, although surviving members of the Comets deny this, as did Haley himself ( quoted in the Swenson biography ) ; a late-1960s bootleg single of the Decca Records version of " Rock Around the Clock ", with " Crazy Man, Crazy " on the B-side and carrying the Essex label, occasionally turns up for sale with the claim that it is the demo version.

In that same month Essex began to absent himself from Charles's court.

In the Earl of Clarendon's words: " it was considered more counsellable to march towards London, it being morally sure that Essex would put himself in their way.

This proposal, in theory, affected himself no less than the Earls of Essex and Manchester.

Purchas himself never traveled " 200 miles from Thaxted in Essex where I was borne.

In the latter part of his life — possibly about 1596, when he published his Wits Miserie and the World's Madnesse, which is dated from Low Leyton in Essex, and the religious tract Prosopopeia ( if, as seems probable, it was his ), in which he repents him of his " lewd lines " of other days — he became a Catholic and engaged in the practice of medicine, for which Wood says he qualified himself by a degree at Avignon in 1600.

He soon became intimate with the leaders of the country party especially with Lord Essex, William Russell, and Algernon Sidney but never entered into their plans so far as to commit himself beyond recall.

He used the clams, which he had collected himself from the mud flats of the Essex River located close to his home.

In 1824, he distinguished himself by his defence of Joseph Hunt when on his trial at Hertford with John Thurtell for the murder of William Weare ; and eight years later at Chelmsford assizes he won a hard-fought action in an ejectment case after three trials, to which he attributed so much of his subsequent success that when he was raised to the peerage he elected to be created Baron Chelmsford, of Chelmsford in the County of Essex.

Before 4 November 1475 he married Elizabeth Bruyn, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Henry Bruyn of South Ockendon, Essex, himself the son of Sir Maurice Bruyn.

He himself died in Ilford, Essex ( now part of London ).

The basis for Admiral Tarrant was Rear Admiral John Perry, the carrier division commander at the time ; that of Lee was Commander Marshall U. Beebe, CAG aboard the Essex in 1951 and technical advisor for the film ; and Forney on Chief ( AP ) Duane Thorin, himself a colorful enlisted pilot known for his trademark non-regulation green headgear.

While a pupil at Chigwell School, Essex, Williams taught himself Cornish and became a bard of the Cornish Gorseth while still in his teens, taking the bardic name Golvan (' Sparrow ').

Micky Woodward appointed himself as manager for a short while and player / coach Jamie Stuart took charge of an Essex Senior Cup match with Woodward assisting.

On the outbreak of hostilities he took arms immediately, commanded a troop of horse in the army of Lord Essex, was present at the relief of Coventry in August, and at the fight at Powick Bridge, Worcester in September, where he distinguished himself, and subsequently at Edgehill.

In February 1643 Fiennes was sent down to Bristol, arrested Colonel Thomas Essex the governor, executed the two leaders of a plot ( Robert Yeamans and George Boucher ) to deliver up the city, and received a commission himself as governor on 1 May 1643.

He attached himself both to Lord Essex and to Robert Cecil, and through the influence of the latter was in 1600 again received by Elizabeth.

Laurence Ferrers, himself a younger son of the Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers-a descendant of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

The power to arrest for a breach of the Peace is usually used to remove violent, potentially violent or provocative offenders ( it is not necessary for the offender himself to be physically involved in any violence ) from a scene rapidly, in Bibby V Chief Constable of Essex it was also used when a person in the opinion of a Constable was likely to be the victim of a breach of the peace or an act of violence ..

The Earl of Essex committed suicide in the Tower of London over his arrest for treason, whilst Lord Grey of Werke escaped from the Tower.

* On September 27, 2003, James Peters ( UK ) escaped from a Posey straitjacket 193 times in eight hours at the YMCA in Chelmsford, Essex.

Essex County was also a destination of the Underground Railroad by which African slaves in the 19th century United States escaped to freedom.

He is said by some, especially William Sanderson, to have persuaded the Earl of Essex to make his ill-fated march into Cornwall in 1644 ; he escaped with the earl from Fowey after the defeat of the parliamentary army in the first days of September 1644.

The Earl of Essex committed suicide in the Tower of London, whilst Ford Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Werke escaped from the Tower and The Earl of Macclesfield was sentenced to death, but was later pardoned.

Although Essex himself escaped in a fishing boat and his cavalry broke out of encirclement, the rest of his army was forced to surrender on 2 September, losing their arms and equipment.

When the back-up arrived, they sent two dogs into the building to search for Essex, but Essex had escaped again.

He escaped execution but his second wife, Christine, was also burnt, but this time for heresy, along with two others from North Essex.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.

The disposition of Essex, held by West Saxon kings since the days of Egbert, is unclear from the treaty, though, given Alfred ’ s political and military superiority, it would have been surprising if he had conceded any disputed territory to his new godson.

He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug, Sulphapyridine, known at the time under the research code M & B 693, discovered and produced by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc.

* 991 – Battle of Maldon: the English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex.

The competition itself was won by F H W Hawes of Dagenham in Essex who finished in less than eight minutes.

King Charles's army had been reinforced as it marched, and outnumbered that of Essex by nearly two to one.

The location of this famous battle is now claimed by some to be the village of Great Wratting, in Suffolk, which lies in the Stour Valley on the Icknield Way West of Colchester, and by a village in Essex.

If you admired a necklace worn by Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, you could buy a copy from Joseff of Hollywood, who made the original.

When the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by a whale in 1820, the captain opted to sail 3000 miles upwind to Chile rather than 1400 miles downwind to the Marquesas because he had heard the Marquesans were cannibals.

After the sinking of the Essex of Nantucket by a whale, on November 20, 1820, ( an important source event for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ) the survivors, in three small boats, resorted, by common consent, to cannibalism in order for some to survive.

However, the Essex Camulodunum was located well within territory usually thought to have been conquered early in the 5th century by Saxons, so it is unlikely to have been the location of any " true " Camelot.

In 1891, W. Essex Wynter began treating tubercular meningitis by tapping the subarachnoid space, and Heinrich Quincke began to popularize lumbar puncture, which he advocated for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes ..

This was subsequently translated into English by John Essex and published in England as For the Further Improvement of Dancing.

It was founded in the 6th century and covered the territory later occupied by the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and ( for a short while ) Kent.

According to British legend ( see: Historia Brittonum ) the territory known later as Essex was ceded by the Britons to the Saxons following the infamous Brad y Cyllyll Hirion event which occurred ca.

Della Hooke relates the territory ruled by the kings of Essex to the pre-Roman territory of the Trinovantium.

The kingdom of Essex grew by the absorption of smaller sub-kingdoms or Saxon tribal groups.