Earl of Essex

[Xword_addict]

I recently had a question on an IT box asking which day the Earl of Essex was executed on. The three answers were Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Palm Sunday I think. Does anyone happen to know. It was 25th Feb 1603.

[4GS]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Devereux,_ 2nd_Earl_of_Essex

[Xword_addict]

Already looked at the article but it didn't stipulate which particular day 25th Feb was that's why I asked on here!

[Hammond Egg]

25th February is too early for any of those three.

Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, which makes the earliest possible date March 22nd. Good Friday is two days before, and Palm Sunday seven days before, Easter Sunday.

[dot.hawkes]

Easter, Lent and movable Feasts associated with Easter
Ash Wednesday is 12 February, 1603.
Laetare Sunday is 9 March, 1603.
Palm/Passion Sunday is 23 March, 1603.
Good Friday is 28 March, 1603.
(Western) Easter Sunday is 30 March, 1603.
Ascension is Thursday, 8 May, 1603.
Pentecost is Sunday, 18 May, 1603.
Trinity Sunday is 25 May, 1603.
Corpus Christi is Thursday, 29 May, 1603.
Sacred Heart of Jesus is Friday, 6 June, 1603.
Immaculate Heart of Mary is Saturday, 7 June, 1603.

[dot.hawkes]

even allowing for the Julian calendar changing to the gregorian , as Britain only converted in 1752, the dates don't work

[Xword_addict]

Would it have been any kind of notable day?

[dot.hawkes]

well it would have struck a chord with the 2nd earl of Essex.

[jno]

wrong year; it was 1601.

[jno]

...in which Feb 25 was Ash Wednesday, under the Julian calendar.

[dot.hawkes]

Ash Wednesday is 7 March, 1601.
Laetare Sunday is 1 April, 1601.
Palm/Passion Sunday is 15 April, 1601.
Good Friday is 20 April, 1601.
(Western) Easter Sunday is 22 April, 1601.
Ascension is Thursday, 31 May, 1601.
Pentecost is Sunday, 10 June, 1601.
Trinity Sunday is 17 June, 1601.
Corpus Christi is Thursday, 21 June, 1601.
Sacred Heart of Jesus is Friday, 29 June, 1601.
Immaculate Heart of Mary is Saturday, 30 June, 1601.

[dot.hawkes]

but Britain didn;t convert until 1752. so it was still the gregorian calendar

[jno]

Dot, that's under the Gregorian calendar, which England didn't adopt till 1752. On the day Essex died in England he would have thought it was Ash Wednesday

http://www.ely.anglican.org/cgi-bin/easter

[jno]

sorry, didn't see your last post, but it was Julian first (Julius Caesar, the salad dude) and Gregory from 1752 till now.

[dot.hawkes]

yes i put that earlier on today and then i am over tired now and so mixed it up, but it was only a few days difference, not enough to work is it? never mind, too tired now lol

[jno]

never mind how many days, if it was a Wednesday then maybe it was Maundy Wednesday or Good Wednesday or Palm Wednesday but it can't have been the ones in the question. I see you're being stalked again, no wonder you're tired, dot