310 Murder of Henry Long, Esq. 
subjoined, it would appear that a few years afterwards, by some 
quibbling objection raised to the inquisition, they contrived to 
obtain a reversal of the outlawry, which indeed had been of so 
little inconvenience that Sir Henry was actually made a Peer 
whilst the outlawry was in force against him. There must therefore 
have been either high influence at work to hush up the crime, or 
some extenuating circumstances, as violent provocation, which 
caused the murder of Mr. Long to be passed over without entailing 
on the perpetrators the usual penalties of a violent outrage. Neither 
Sir Henry nor Sir Charles appears to have suffered any damage 
whatever from it. 
But Pharoah’s butler and baker did not come to more widely 
different ends than did these two brothers. Sir Charles took a 
leading part in the insurrection of the Earl of Essex against Eliza- 
beth: for which he was attainted and beheaded in 1600-1.1 On 
the authority of Viscountess Purbeck (Elizabeth Danvers, niece of 
Sir Charles) Aubrey says, that “Sir Charles Danvers advised the 
Earl of Essex to make his escape through the gate of Essex house, 
and hasten away to Highgate, and so to Northumberland, (the 
Earl of Northumberland had married his sister) and from thence 
to the King of Scots: and there they might make their peace. 
Tf not, the Queen was old and might not live long. But Essex 
followed not his advice: and so they both lost their heads on 
Tower Hill.’’? 
The Lord Southampton above mentioned was tried, but his life 
was spared, and he was restored to his title by King James I. 
Sir Henry Danvers does not appear to have been concerned with 
his brother in the Essex plot; and his subsequent career was one 
of success and distinction. He was created Baron Danvers of 
Dauntesey, 27th July, 1603. By his brother’s death he had be- 
come heir to the father’s estates, but being unable to trace his 
title to them through his elder brother without a reversal of Sir 
1 His trial, under the name of Sir Charles Davers, (a variety of spelling which 
the family sometimes used), is in the State Trials, Vol. I. (Svo. Edit.) p. 1410. 
His examination and confession, ditto, p. 1345. 
2 Aubrey’s Lives, Vol. Il. p. 344. 
