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I was glad of that; as I did not greatly like his regard. What, thought I, if I be alone with a madman? "Well, sir," he said, "we are driven desperate, as you may have guessed. I say, we; for you have identified yourself with our cause a hundred times over. My Lord Shaftesbury is gone; my Lord Essex is hanging back. Well; but those are not all.
And every man expected it; for the members began to shift for themselves, expresses were sent on the heels of one another to the Earl of Essex to hasten after the king, and, if possible, to bring him to a battle. Some of these letters fell into our hands, and we might easily discover that the Parliament were in the last confusion at the thoughts of our coming to London.
But some persons, who thought they could see farther than others, said that Drake had been ordered by the Earl of Leicester to take off Doughty, because he spread a report that Leicester had procured the death of the Earl of Essex." Having remained at Port St.
I was perplexed as to what I ought to do under the circumstances, but by the advice of two Washingtonians, one of them the general agent of my paper, I still continued at my post of editor. In the following winter I was up as one of three candidates for Congress from Essex County.
Musical instruments were played in Boston and heard in Essex; then Watson talked, and finally he was instructed to sing. He insisted that he was not a singer, but the voices of others less experienced in speaking over the crude instruments often failed to carry sufficiently well for demonstration purposes. So Watson sang, as best he could, "Yankee Doodle," "Auld Lang Syne," and other favorites.
On the Essex at the time was a midshipman aged twelve years, who got his first taste of fighting there, and whose name was destined to become, after that of Paul Jones, the most famous in American naval history David Glasgow Farragut.
In response to Henry's appeal, the Earl of Essex was despatched with a force of six thousand men raised by express command of the queen on Sunday when the people were all at church to Dover, where shipping was in readiness to transport the troops at once across the Channel.
Essex was now summoned to the queen and given the supreme command in Ireland, with orders to proceed at once to the reduction of Tyrone. An army of 20,000 infantry and 1,300 horse were placed under him, and the title of Lord-Lieutenant conferred, which had not been granted to any one under royal blood for centuries.
This was what I wished and being determined not to remain in ignorance for want of asking, I began the Conversation in the following Manner. "Have you been long in Essex Ma'am?" "I arrived on Tuesday." "You came from Derbyshire?" "No, Ma'am! appearing surprised at my question, from Suffolk."
I haven't seen her for a long while now, but her dodge used to be to come here on rainy nights, and stand bare-headed and sing and sell just when the theatres was a-bustin'. She gets a good lot, I fancy, by that dodge. 'The Essex Street Beauty? 'Oh, I thought you know'd p'raps.
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