Did our hero, or did he not, attend the funeral service of the Earl of Essex, his predecessor in command? You may well ask. Well, it has been said that the absence of Fairfax and Cromwell may have been of some political significance; and yet Fairfax's good friend, Bulstrode Whitelocke, says that Fairfax appeared there. A rare contemporary document, "A Funeral Monument, or the Manner of the Herse of the most Renowned Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex and Ewe..." has recently been sent to me by the National Library of Australia, in Canberra, so my researches are certainly far-reaching.