Chapter Erminia to Essex Stile of E by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Queen's counsel, serjeants-at-arms, Companions of the Orders of Knighthood, certain principal officers in the Queen's household, deputy lieutenants, commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, masters of the Supreme Court, those whom the Queen, in any commission or warrant, styles esquire, and any person who, in virtue of his office, takes precedence of esquires."

    Add to these, graduates of the universities not in holy orders.

Essays Lord Bacon's essays were the first in English that bore the name.

"To write just treatises requireth leisure in the writer and leisure in the reader ... which is the cause which hath made me choose to write certain brief notes ... which I have called essays." - Dedication to Prince Henry.

Essenes (2 syl.). A sect among the Jews in the time of our Saviour. They were communists who abjured every sort of fleshly indulgence. They ate no animal food, and drank only water. Their sacrifices to God were only fruits of the earth. They kept the Sabbath so strictly that they would not even wash a plate or rinse a cup on that day. They always dressed in white, took no part in public matters, but devoted themselves to contemplative studies. They held the Jewish Scriptures in great reverence, but interpreted them allegorically.

Essex East seaxë (the territory of the East Saxons).

Essex Lions Calves, for which the county is famous.
   Valiant as an Essex lion (ironical).

Essex Stile A ditch. As Essex is very marshy, it abounds in ditches, and has very few stiles.