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| Arthur 1st Earl of Essex | | Source/Author | gencircles.com | | Date | | | Summary | British Peerage on Arthur (1st Earl of Essex) | The Beloved mentioned comments are from the British Peerage book of England:
The Burial entry says "cut his own throat with a Knife." Lord Ailesbury, in his MEMOIRS, gives a circumstantial account of the sucide. The Earl "asked very coldly for a razor to cut his nails, and being accustomed so to do gave no manner of suspicion. He went into a small close," where his servant afterwards found him "dead and wallowing in blood. " The Earl of Arran writes to his father, Ormonde about "the sad end of the Earl of Essex .... I thought he durst not ,of all men have done such an act upon himself; but think rather that he would have discovered all he Knew. Besides Monmouth and Essex, the Earl of Salisbury, the Lord Grey of Warke, William, styled Lord Russell, and Algernon Sidney were concerned in the plot which contemplated the assassination of the King and of the Duke of York. Evelyn thus describes him; "A sober, wise, judicious, and pondering person, not illiterate beyound the rate of most noblemen in this age, very well versed in English history and affairs, industrious, frugal, methodical, and everyway accomplished. His lady is a wise yet somewhat melancholy woman. Osmund Airy, Editor of the Essex Papers published by the Camden Society, forms a very high opinion of his character and writes of him in the preface: "He was poor and yet he preserved complete independence and kept his hands clean of all bribes; he was disinterested, conscientious, sensible and labo rious . . . he was an accomplished scholar, a keen sportsman, and after the fashion of the day a great builder and gardener; his family affections were deep, his private life singularly pure, his religion unaffected . . . . He did his best firmly, fearlessly, without passion or weakness, to remedy the almost hopeless state of confusion in which he found Ireland." V.G. |
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| People Connected to This Article | | | Name | Born | Father | Mother | Family | Details |  | Capell, Arthur "1st/21st Earl of Essex" | 1631 | Capel, Arthur "1st Baron Capell" | (Morrison), Elizabeth | Family | Details |
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