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See also:ESSEX, See also:ROBERT DEVEREUX , 3RD' See also:EARL OF (1591–1646), son of the preceding, was See also:born in 1591. He was educated at See also:Eton and at Merton See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. Shortly after the arrival of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. in See also:London, Essex (whose See also:title was restored, and the See also:- ATTAINDER (from the O. Fr. ataindre, ateindre, to attain, i.e. to strike, accuse, condemn; Lat. attingere, tangere, to touch; the meaning has been greatly affected by the confusion with Fr. taindre, teindre, to taint, stain, Lat. tingere, to dye)
attainder on his See also:father removed, in 1604) was placed about the See also:prince of See also:Wales, as a sharer both in his studies and amusements. At the See also:early See also:age of fifteen he was married to Frances See also:Howard, daughter of the earl of See also:Suffolk, but she was his wife only in name; during his See also:absence abroad (1607–1609) she See also:fell in love with See also:Sir Robert Carr (afterwards earl of See also:Somerset), and on her charging her See also:husband with See also:physical incapacity, the See also:marriage was annnlled in 1613. A second marriage which he contracted in 1631 with See also:Elizabeth, daughter of Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Paulet, also ended unhappily. From 162o to 1623 he served in the See also:wars of the See also:Palatinate, and in 1625 he was See also:vice-See also:admiral of a See also:fleet which made an unsuccessful See also:attempt to See also:capture See also:Cadiz. In 1639 he was See also:lieutenant-See also:general of the See also:army sent. by See also:Charles against the Scottish See also:Covenanters; but on See also:account of the irresolution of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king no See also:battle occurred, and the army was disbanded at the end of the See also:year. Essex was discharged " without See also:ordinary ceremony," and refused an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time fell vacant, " all which," says See also:Clarendon, " wrought very much upon his rough, proud nature, and made him susceptible of some impressions afterwards which otherwise would not have found such easy See also:admission." Having taken the See also:side of the See also:parliament against Charles, he was, on the outbreak of the See also:civil See also:war in 1642, appointed to the command of the See also:parliamentary army. At the battle of Edgehill he remained See also:master
r i.e. in the Devereux See also:line.
of the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, and in 1643 he captured See also:Reading, and relieved See also:Gloucester; but in the See also:campaign of the following year, on account of his hesitation to fight against the king in See also:person, nearly his whole army fell into the hands of Charles. In 1645, on the passing of the self-denying See also:ordinance, providing that no member of parliament should hold a public office, he resigned his See also:commission; but on account of his past services his See also:annuity of £ro,000 was continued to him for See also:life. He died on the 14th of See also:September 1646, of a See also:fever brought on by over-exertion in a See also:stag-See also:hunt in See also:Windsor See also:Forest; his line becoming See also:extinct.
See the " Life of Robert Earl of Essex," by Robert See also:Codrington, M.A., printed in See also:Hart. Misc.; Clarendon's See also:History of the See also:Rebellion, and Hon. W. B. Devereux, Lives of the Earls of Essex (1853).
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