Fast Longitude 49° 15°, and North Latitude 25°. See 
"s Letlers, &e. vol. ii; and Denon's Travels in 
, Vols. ii. iii, (f 
SSPALTER Trees. See Ganventno. 
ESPIRITU Santo. See New Hesrimes. 
UIMAUX, See Hupson’s Bay, and Lasravor. 
ion of the 
Desc of gentlcman, and below that of knight. Its etymolo- 
* mo 
paca a the English word being derived imme- 
iately from the French ecuyer, or, as it was formerly 
written, esewyer; and the 
the Latin scutifer or scutanus; the root of all the terms 
ing the Greek word exvres, a shield. The rank of 
ae at first — Cee weng abe mee ened oma 
the Greeks, ‘norary. In its original acceptation, as oting an 
officiary dignity, it may be traced among the Greeks 
and Romans. ripides mentions shield-bearers, vrae- 
wile, vrarwieres, and aewid 3 and iger and scu- 
ps wo Rot en a ed by Plautus. Butes is mention- 
by Virgil as ‘Dardaxien Anchise armiger. Even 
Britons, office of 
Gauks, 
by 
hom Posidoni Ath 
Td pet SE ees 
tar Is. 
Change on iginally the office of an esquire was to 
the nature the oield of the knight to treo he ro tacit 
«Se office. afterwards, as we have shewn in the article Cuivacey, 
(to which we refer for what relates to esquire as con- 
nected with that institution, ) his offices were more im- 
portant and numerous. the French, the grand 
escuyer was master of the horse. His business was to 
assist the sovereign in mounting or dismounting from 
his horse, and to give him his sword and belt. In the 
court of the eastern empire, there was an officer called 
Zxvlagus, who used to bear before the the sa- 
cred standard, and his exvlagior, or shield, m a case. 
It appears, from these instances, that the titles, ar- 
miger, ecuyer, esquire, &c. did not originally imply 
that the persons possessing them were entitled to bear 
coats of arms, but only that their office was to carry the 
to be honorary the 
ret rt 
II. there being an instance of a 
time of Richard 
quire ; for it is a vulgar error, that any estate, however 
202 
rench term is derived from lary 
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large, can confer this rank its owner. 
lowing are undoubtedly rank 
and denomination, viz. esquires of the body ; of these 
there are four to attend on wr Art rm dia metre oe 
eldest sons of knights, and their “sons successive- 
ly: all noblemen’s younger sons, and the 
of such younger sons ;—the two latter species of es. 
ires, Sir Henry Spelman entitles armigert natalitii. 
ourthly, such to whom the king 
i nr abi created either b ' 
po whi cot ina eallar of 8 
“ 
investiture, which used 
and silver spurs: the right of pri iture in their 
neal tarley Ww aloo. secontppasiod with this honour, 
the pecee, bat oul. while he-6¢ teronumeasceapestanr 
the peace, but only while he is in , unless 
he is otherwise qualified to bear the title; the 
of the king’s courts, and of his household. t 
lords, who are such on account of office, or of high 
birth only, have not, by the common law, any title but 
‘ a and 
Scotland, a person holding the hi civil station, 
next to the royal family, f eb « William 
a Esquire, our Keeper eos our en eye 
”  Forei are esquires in law. — 
the five cane Pivatines already named, may be add- 
ed the esquires of Knights of the Bath, each of whom 
constitutes three at his installation. The sheriffs of 
counties retain the title during their lives. The heads 
dignity of 
See Sclden’s Pitles of Honowr. Verslegan’s Restitution 
* Intelligen Blackstone’: 
ESSAYING. See Muxr. 
ESSENES. See Free Masonry, and Mystertes, 
ESSEQUIBO. See Bernice, Demerara, and 
NA . 
the east coast Of on 
‘ESSEX is a maritime county on 
England. It is bounded on the east 
ocean ; on the west by the rivers 
a part of Hertfordshire; on the 
Stour and part of Cambri ire; and on 
by the river Thames. It is divided from the | 
of oe ee eee ‘ 
Middlesex, on the west, by the river Lea; 
Kent, on the south, by the Thames. Measured 
Oe ee 
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by the 
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even ; it is in fact broken into i 
peninsulas, which are deeply cut in by the arms of the 
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