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See also:SEXBY, See also:EDWARD (d. 1658) , See also:English soldier, " leveller " and conspirator, was a private soldier in See also:Cromwell's See also:regiment of See also:horse when first heard of about 1643. He opposed the proposal to disband the See also:army in 1647; and as one of the " See also:agitators " he resisted all attempts to come to an arrangement with See also:Charles I.,and advocated extreme democratic doctrines. He See also:rose to the See also:rank of See also:colonel, but was deprived of his See also:commission in 1651. When Cromwell assumed the See also:title of See also:lord See also:protector, Sexby became one of his most violent opponents, and in 1655 tried to bring together the See also:levellers and the royalists in a See also:combination to overturn the See also:government. Compelled to See also:fly from See also:England, he intrigued with the See also:Spanish government with a view to restoring Charles II., as the only feasible See also:plan for destroying Cromwell; and he was concerned in several plots to assassinate the protector. About 1657 he wrote the celebrated See also:apology for tyrannicide entitled " Killing No See also:Murder," under the See also:pseudonym 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:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen, which was printed in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and distributed in England. In See also:July 1657 he was arrested in disguise in England, whither he had come to See also:attempt Cromwell's assassination, and he died in the See also:Tower of See also:London on the 13th of See also:January 1658.
SE%PARTITE VAULT, in See also:architecture, a name given to the single See also:bay of a vault, which, in addition to the transverse and See also:diagonal ribs, has been divided by a second transverse See also:rib, forming six compartments. The See also:principal examples are those in the Abbaye-aux-Hommes and Abbaye-aux-Dames at See also:Caen (which were probably the earliest examples of a construction now looked upon as transitional), Notre See also:Dame, See also:Paris, and the cathedrals of See also:Bourges, See also:Laon, See also:Noyon, Senlis and See also:Sens; from the latter See also:cathedral the sexpartite vault was brought by William of Sens to See also:Canterbury, and it is afterwards found at See also:Lincoln and in St Faith's See also:Chapel, See also:Westminster See also:Abbey.
End of Article: SEXBY, EDWARD (d. 1658)
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