* The Masque of Flowers ( performed by Gray's Inn before the King at Whitehall to honour the marriage of the Earl of Somerset to Frances Howard, Countess of Essex ) ( 1614 )

At any rate, the Chamberlain's Men do not appear to have suffered at all for their association with the Essex group ; they performed for the Queen on Shrove Tuesday in 1601, the day before Essex's execution.

In fact, until regrading was performed during the 1970s, the outline of one of the course's sandtraps was still visible near the base of Flood's Hill, a spot that has historically been one of the favorite sleigh riding spots in Essex County.

Written by the Heather Brothers, it was first performed at the Queens Theatre in Hornchurch, Essex in 1992.

During the summer, an offer to appear on TV came " out of the blue " and so the band performed East of Eden on the first ever David Essex Showcase.

The folklorist Eric Maple, after examining several nineteenth-century cunning folk in Essex, noted that one of them, George Pickingill, also performed cursing for clients, but that the other whom he examined, James Murrell, considered it immoral and so did not.

Peter Ackroyd and James P. Bednarz both argue that Shakespeare may have written the poem to dissociate himself from Essex, with whom he was implicated because of his links to Essex's main ally the Earl of Southampton, and because his play about the overthrow of a monarch, Richard II, had been performed at the request of the rebels.

This work was inspired by a visit Wu Man made to Yin Yu Tang, the reconstruction of a Chinese village homestead at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts and is a musical and theatrical journey through different time periods of Chinese history performed with film accompaniment.

He was appointed Custos Rotulorum for Essex in 1572, but the work resulting from this post was performed by his steward, Francis Ram.

Other services connect the six towns, for example the West Caldwell public pools allow residents from the other five towns to become members for a higher fee, the three Caldwells share a post office, and emergency dispatching for Essex Fells is performed by North Caldwell.

Numerous artists of note have performed here including David Essex, Chuck Berry, Daniel O ' Donnell, Lee Evans, and JLS.

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.

* Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex of England ( 1591 – 1646 ), nobleman and military commander

The Chorus directly refers to the looked-for military triumphs of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in the fifth act.

In 1620 Essex embarked on what was to be an undistinguished military career prior to the start of the First English Civil War.

As the unprecedented prospect of a military confrontation between the King and Parliament grew, on 4 July 1642 Parliament voted to create a Committee of Safety consisting of ten Members of the House of Commons and five peers, of which Essex was one alongside the Earl of Northumberland, the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Holland and Viscount Saye and Sele.

As one of the few English nobles with any military experience, Essex was chosen to lead it.

Although Essex had begun his military preparations in London, prior to the battle Charles had been able to position his army in between the Parliamentarian forces and London.

Although Essex still had many supporters in Parliament, he had enough opponents to block his re-emergence as a military leader at this stage.

The destruction of his army at Roundway scarcely affected Waller's military reputation, many reproaching Essex, the commander-in-chief, for allowing the Oxford royalists to turn against Waller.

Leaders from the Presbyterian “ peace party " faction in Parliament resigned their military positions to retain their political powers ; Lords Manchester and Essex forfeited their generalships, as Lord Warwick did his command of the navy.

Abbas was also able to draw on military advice from a number of European envoys, particularly from the English adventurers Sir Anthony, and his brother Robert Shirley, who arrived in 1598 as envoys from the Earl of Essex on an unofficial mission to induce Persia into anti-Ottoman alliance.

Educated at the University of Oxford, Anthony Shirley gained some military experience with the English troops in the Netherlands and also during an expedition to Normandy in 1591 under Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, who was related to his wife, Frances Vernon ; about this time he was knighted by Henry of Navarre ( Henry IV of France ), an event which brought upon him the displeasure of his own sovereign and a short imprisonment.

In December 2007, 12 former recipients buried at the PDSA Animal Cemetery in Ilford, Essex, were afforded full military honours at the conclusion of a National Lottery-aided project to restore the cemetery.

He was buried with full military honours in Loughton Cemetery, Essex.

In combination with released British military files, it shows that both Percival and his Essex regiment managed to destroy a number of the IRA flying columns and but for faulty communication between Royal Irish headquarters in the Castle and Percival's flying columns, they almost destroyed the Cork IRA.

The tenth baron was a notable military commander who served with the Earl of Essex and Lord Mountjoy.

By August 1803 the instruction to return to Sydney was withdrawn, and he was appointed as Surgeon to the Forces at the military hospital at Dunmow, Essex.

It is also likely that Cecil, Hakluyt and others were concerned that they should not have a leader like the Earl of Essex, who might set up his own kingdom in Virginia, and therefore sought out an old retired military man instead.

Young Patterson joined the British Army at the age of seventeen, rose quickly through the ranks, and eventually attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Essex Yeomanry, retiring from the military in 1920.

He travelled across Europe, took part in military campaigns led by Essex, and was a participant of Essex's rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I.

Essex recruited 400 adventurers for his colony but only a small number of them travelled to Ireland and Essex spent most of his time in the province engaged in military encounters with Gaelic lords opposed to his plans.

Currently two routes are being operated: one, a day and night freight and passenger service, to Harwich, Essex and the other, a night, freight only service to Killingholme, Lincolnshire.

The popularity of MUDs of the Essex University tradition escalated in the USA during the late 1980s when affordable personal computers with 300 to 2400 bit / s modems enabled role-players to log into multi-line Bulletin Board Systems and online service providers such as CompuServe.

At this point he was almost immediately taken into the service of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

The local bus service around the town is operated by Whites Coaches as routes 151, 152, 153 and 154 ; other routes are provided by Arriva Shires & Essex, Thames Travel and Courtney Coaches.

Its Essex toll plaza is located in the city, as well as two service areas.

The Orange and Highland Avenue stations provide New Jersey Transit train service along the Morris & Essex Lines ( formerly Erie Lackawanna Railway ).

Service on the New Jersey Transit Gladstone Branch of the Morris & Essex Lines is available at the New Providence and Murray Hill stations, offering service to Hoboken Terminal and to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan.

Ferry service between Essex, NY and Charlotte, VT is provided by the Lake Champlain Transportation Company.

The first ferry service in Essex began operation around 1790.

Parking for this ferry service is at the Essex County Fairgrounds.

* Stories that explain why Vortigern granted land in Britain to the Saxons — first Thanet, in exchange for service as foederati troops ; then the rest of Kent, in exchange for the hand of Hengest's daughter ; then Essex and Sussex, after a banquet where the Saxons treacherously slew all of the leaders of the British, but saved Vortigern to extract this ransom.

In 1606 he dedicated to King James Offices enabling privat Persons for the special service of all good Princes and Policies, a prose treatise containing, among other things, descriptions of Queen Elizabeth and of the earl of Essex.

** Mary Ann Amy Macrae Cockburn ( Calcutta, 29 August 1855-23 April 1942 ), married on 6 June 1877 to Walter St. George Burke of Auberies, Bulmer, Essex, JP ( 27 April 1842-17 February 1916 ), Lieutenant Colonel in the service of the Royal Engineers, Justice of the Peace for Essex and for Suffolk, son of James St. George Burke and wife Anne Eliza Grubbe, and had issue

Bus service, mainly operated by First Essex Buses Ltd ex NBC / Thamesway connect the town to nearby towns including Billericay and Wickford.

** Essex Junior, was a British whaler captured by Essex and put into service until recaptured in 1814

The Ipswich Essex Explorer bus provides weekend service during the summer connecting with the MBTA Commuter Rail at Ipswich along the Newburyport / Rockport Line, as well as providing service to Crane Beach and other nearby attractions.

For his zeal in the service of Queen Elizabeth I on this and other occasions, Walter was made a knight of the Garter and was created Earl of Essex in 1572.

On November 26, 2007, the City of Windsor's website announced that 2-1-1 service for Windsor and Essex County began, and was being run by the United Way ( who also runs the local 3-1-1 service ).

The town is connected by a seasonal foot ferry service at weekends in the summer across the River Colne, Essex to Fingringhoe and Rowhedge.