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Life of Sir John Digby (1605–1645)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Camden Third Series , Volume 18 , June 1910 , pp. 63 - 149
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1910

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page 63 note 1 [In the Dictionary of National Biography there are lives both of the author and his hero. Edward Walsingham is there described as ‘ royalist author and intriguer’ and said to be a kinsman of the Digbys (D N B. LIX. 230). He was also the author of Lives of Sir John Smith (Britannicae Virtutis Imago, 1644) and Sir Henry Gage (Alter Britanniae Heros. 1645). Walsingham was deeply engaged in all the political intrigues in favour of the Catholics, and also in those for the conversion of the Duke of Gloucester and the removal of Hyde from the service of Charles II. ‘ A pragmatical knave’, ‘ a great babbler of his most secret employments’ and ‘ a busy instrument of the Jesuits’ are amongst the terms applied to him hy Royalists of the orthodox Protestant type.

Sir John Digby the brother of Sir Kenelm who is the subject of this memoir should not be confused with the Sir John Digby of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, who is so frequently mentioned by Mrs. Hutchinson in the life of her husband. The two are so confused in the index to Macray's edition of Clarendon's Rebellion. In David Lloyd's ‘ Memoirs of the Lives etc. of those excellent personages who suffered… for allegiance to their sovereign, folio 1968, the two personages are properly distinguished (pp. 580, 581) C. H. Firth.].

page 64 note 1 Catalogue des manuscrits anglais.

page 64 note 2 Edwards. Memoirs of Libraries ii. 116.