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battle of Chalgrove Field
1643.Prince Rupert disrupted Essex's advance on Oxford in the summer of 1643 with a series of brilliant sorties. On 17 June he set out with nearly 2,000 men, mainly cavalry, and surprised several ...
Battle of Edgehill
(23 October 1642)The first battle of the English Civil War. Charles I's Royalists, marching south from Shrewsbury, with the eventual aim of recapturing London, clashed with the Parliamentarians under ...
battle of Kinsale
1601.Around 4,000 Spanish troops sent to assist Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, against Elizabeth I landed in September 1601 at Kinsale, where they were besieged by Lord Mountjoy, who had taken over ...
battle of Newbury
1643.After relieving Gloucester in September 1643, Essex was shadowed on his return journey to London by Charles's army. The royalists reached Newbury a few hours before their opponents, cutting off ...
battle of the Yellow Ford
1598.Sometimes known as the battle of the Blackwater, this was one of the last great victories of the Irish over their English antagonists. The great Hugh O'Neill (Tyrone) was in rebellion and had ...
battle of Turnham Green
1642.Charles I's best hope of winning the Civil War was to bring it to an end before the superior resources of Parliament could be brought to bear. After the indecisive encounter at Edgehill on 23 ...
Carr, Robert, 1st Viscount Rochester, 1st earl of Somerset
(c. 1587–1645).Carr, a royal favourite, began his career as page to James VI of Scotland. He acquired political significance only after the death of James's chief minister Robert Cecil in 1612, ...
Charles Blount Mountjoy, 8th Baron
(c. 1562–1606).The Blounts were a Derbyshire family, ennobled by Edward IV as Yorkist supporters in 1465. Charles Blount succeeded his brother in 1594. He had fought in the Low ...
Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham and 1st earl of Nottingham
(c. 1536–1624).Howard took advantage of his high birth to sustain a long and distinguished career. Anne Boleyn was his first cousin. He was a grandson of the 2nd duke of Norfolk, the hero of Flodden; ...
civil wars
1642–51.In 1629 Charles I dismissed Parliament, resolving never to call another. He might have succeeded but for the problem of the multiple kingdoms. During the 1630s he decided to bring Scottish ...
Dunmowe
Little Dunmow, near Chelmsford in Essex. When the Wife of Bath says of her suffering husbands (III.218) ‘the bacon was nat fet [fetched] for him … | That som men ...
East Anglia
(kingdom and earldom) One of the earliest AS kingdoms, consisting of the shires of Norfolk and Suffolk (the North-folk and South-folk). Formerly a Roman administrative area, the region was settled ...
Edmund Ludlow
(c. 1617–92).Ludlow was one of a group of austere republicans that included Vane and Haselrig. His father Sir Henry Ludlow, a Wiltshire landowner, represented the county in the Long ...
Edward Coke
(1552–1634)English lawyer and politician. He rose to the position of Lord Chief Justice (1613), prosecuting such defendants as Essex (1601) and the Gunpowder Plot conspirators (1606). In 1616 James I ...
Essex Quick reference
The Kings and Queens of Britain (2 ed.)
Essex, the kingdom of the East Saxons, was settled in the fifth century, the dynasty tracing its pedigree back to Seaxnet, a Saxon deity. There were a number of sub-groups, such as the ...
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World Encyclopedia
County in
Essex Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
the English county (between Suffolk and the Thames). Chaucer's family had been merchants in Ipswich nearby, but he mentions the
Essex Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
(East Saxons) An AS kingdom supposedly founded by Æscwin in 527; the region was settled from the early 6th
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
a county in the south-east of England.
Essex girl a derogatory term applied to a type of young woman, supposedly to be found in and around Essex, and variously characterized as ...
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Francis Bacon
(1561–1626). English statesman and philosopher;Bacon counts as one of the first English empiricists and was a supporter of the inductive method (the “Baconian” method). He produced a strong critique ...
