1ST See also:EARL OF 6 See also:JOHN See also:DIGBY See also:BRISTOL (1580-1653)
See also:English diplomatist, son of See also:Sir See also:George See also:Digby of Coleshill, See also:Warwickshire, and of See also:Abigail, daughter of Sir See also:Arthur Henningham, was See also:born in
3 See also:Pepys's See also:Diary, iv
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51. lb. vii
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199
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6 lb
.
2o7; Protests of the Lords, by J
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E
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T
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See also:Rogers, i
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36
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6 I.e. in the Digby See also:line; for the Herveys see above
.
II
158o, and entered Magdalen See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, in 1595 (M.A
.
1605), becoming a member of the Inner See also:Temple in 1598
.
In 1605 he was sent to See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James to inform him of the safety of the princess See also:Elizabeth at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:Gunpowder See also:Plot
.
He gained his favour, was made a See also:gentleman of the privy chamber and one of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's carvers, and was knighted in 1607
.
From 1610 to 1611 he was member of See also:parliament for Heydon
.
In 1611 he was sent as See also:ambassador to See also:Spain to negotiate a See also:marriage between See also:Prince See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry and the infanta See also:Anne, and to See also:champion the cause of the English merchants, for whom he obtained substantial concessions, and arranged the See also:appointment of consuls at See also:Lisbon and See also:Seville
.
He also discovered a See also:list of the English pensioners of the See also:Spanish See also:court, which included some of the ministers, and came See also:home in 1613 to communicate this important intelligence to the king
.
In 1614 he again went to Spain to effect a See also:union between the infanta Maria and See also:Charles, though he himself was in favour of a See also:Protestant marriage, and desired a See also:political and not a matrimonial treaty
.
In 1616, on the disgrace of See also:Somerset, he was recalled home to give See also:evidence concerning the latter's connexions with Spain, was made See also:vice-See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
chamberlain and a privy councillor, and obtained from James the See also:manor of See also:Sherborne forfeited by the See also:late favourite
..
In 1618 he went once more to Spain to reopen the negotiations, returning in May, and being created See also:Baron Digby on the 25th of See also:November
.
He endeavoured to avoid a See also:breach with Spain on the See also:election of the elector See also:palatine, the king's son-in-See also:law, to the Bohemian See also:throne; and in See also:March 1621, after the latter's See also:expulsion from Bohemia, Digby was sent to See also:Brussels to obtain a suspension of hostilities in the See also:Palatinate
.
On the 4th of See also:July he went to See also:Vienna and See also:drew up a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of pacification with the See also:emperor, by which See also:Frederick was to abandon Bohemia and be secured in his hereditary territories, but the agreement could never be enforced
.
After raising See also:money for the See also:defence of See also:Heidelberg he returned home in See also:October, and on the 21st of November explained his policy to the parliament, and asked for money and forces for its See also:execution
.
The sudden See also:dissolution of parliament, however, prevented the See also:adoption of any measure of support, and entirely ruined Digby's plans
.
In 1622 he returned to Spain with nothing on which to rely but the See also:goodwill of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip IV., and nothing to offer but entreaties
.
On the 15th of See also:September he was created See also:earl of See also:Bristol
.
He urged on the marriage treaty, believing it would include favour-able conditions for Frederick, but the negotiations were taken out of his See also:control, and finally wrecked by the arrival of Charles himself and See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham in March 1623
.
He incurred their resentment, of which the real See also:inspiration was Buckingham's implacable See also:jealousy, by a See also:letter written to James informing him of Buckingham's unpopularity among the Spanish ministers, and by his endeavouring to maintain the See also:peace with Spain after their departure
.
In See also:January 1624 he See also:left Spain, and on arriving at See also:Dover in March, Buckingham and Charles having now See also:complete ascendancy over the king, he was forbidden to appear at court and ordered to confine himself at Sherborne
.
He was required by Buckingham to See also:answer a See also:series of interrogatories, but he refused to inculpate himself and demanded a trial by parliament
.
On the See also:death of James he was removed by Charles L from the privy See also:council, and ordered to absent himself from his first parliament
.
On his demand in January 1626 to be See also:present at the See also:coronation Charles angrily refused, and accused him of having tried to pervert his See also:religion in Spain
.
In March 1626, after the assembling of the second parliament, Digby applied to the Lords, who supported his rights, and Charles sent him his See also:writ accompanied by a letter from See also:Lord Keeper See also:Coventry desiring him not to use it
.
Bristol, however, took his seat and demanded See also:justice against Buckingham (See also:Thomason Tracts, E
.
126 (20))
.
The king endeavoured to obstruct his attack by causing Bristol on the 1st of May to be himself brought to the See also:bar, on an See also:accusation of high See also:treason by the See also:attorney-See also:general
.
The Lords, how-ever, ordered that both charges should be investigated simultaneously
.
Further proceedings were stopped by the dissolution of parliament on the 15th of See also:June; a See also:prosecution was ordered by Charles in the See also:Star Chamber, and Bristol was sent to the
See also:Tower, where he remained till the 17th of March 1628, when the peers, on the assembling of Charles's third parliament, insisted on his liberation and restoration to his seat in the' Lords
.
In the discussions upon the See also:Petition of Right, Bristol supported the use of the king's See also:prerogative in emergencies, and asserted that the king besides his legal had a See also:regal See also:power, but joined in the demand for a full See also:acceptance of the petition by the king after the first unsatisfactory answer
.
He was now restored to favour, but took no See also:part in politics till the outbreak of the Scottish See also:rebellion, when he warned Charles of the danger of attacking with inadequate forces
.
He was the See also:leader in the See also:Great Council held at See also:York, was a See also:commissioner to treat with the Scots in September 1640 at See also:Ripon, and advised strongly the summoning of the parliament
.
In See also:February 1641 he was one of the peers who advocated reforms in the See also:administration and were given seats in the council
.
Though no friend to See also:Strafford, he endeavoured to See also:save his See also:life, desiring only to see him excluded from See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and as a See also:witness was excused from voting on the See also:- ATTAINDER (from the O. Fr. ataindre, ateindre, to attain, i.e. to strike, accuse, condemn; Lat. attingere, tangere, to touch; the meaning has been greatly affected by the confusion with Fr. taindre, teindre, to taint, stain, Lat. tingere, to dye)
attainder
.
He was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber on the king's departure for See also:Scotland, and on the 27th of See also:December he was declared an evil counsellor by the See also:House of See also:Commons, See also:Cromwell on the 28th moving an address to the king to dismiss him from his See also:councils, on the plea that he had advocated the bringing up of the See also:northern See also:army to overawe parliament in the preceding See also:spring
.
There is no evidence to support the See also:charge, but Digby was regarded by the See also:parliamentary party with See also:special hatred and distrust, of which the See also:chief causes were probably his Spanish proclivities and his indifference on the great See also:matter of religion, to which was added the unpopularity reflected from his misguided son
.
On the 28th of March 1642 he was sent to the Tower for having failed to disclose to parliament the Kentish petition
.
Liberated in See also:April, he spoke in the Lords on the loth of May in favour of an See also:accommodation, and again in June in vindication of the king; but finding his efforts ineffectual, and believing all armed rebellion against the king a wicked violation of the most See also:solemn oaths, he joined Charles at York, was present at Edgehill and accompanied him to Oxford
.
On the 1st of February 1643 he was named with Lord See also:Herbert of See also:Raglan for removal from the court and public office for ever, and in the propositions of November 1644 was one of those excepted from See also:pardon
.
In January he had endeavoured to instigate a breach of the See also:Independents with the Scots
.
Bristol, however, was not in favour of continuing the See also:war, and withdrew to Sherborne, removing in the spring of 1644 to See also:Exeter, and after the surrender- of the See also:city retiring abroad on the 11th of July by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the Houses, which rejected his petition to See also:compound for his See also:estate
.
He took up his See also:residence at See also:Caen, passing the See also:rest of his life in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile and poverty, and occasionally attending the See also:young king
.
In 1647 he printed at Caen An See also:Apology, defending his support of the royal cause
.
This was reprinted in 1656 (Thomason Tracts, E
.
897, 6)
.
He died at See also:Paris on the 16th of January 1653
.
He is described by See also:Clarendon as " a See also:man of See also:grave aspect, of a presence that drew respect, and of great parts and ability, but passionate and supercilious and too voluminous a discourser in council." His aim was to effect a political union between See also:England and Spain apart from the religious or marriage questions —a policy which would probably have benefited both English and See also:European interests; but it was one understood neither ir
.
Spain .nor in England, and proved impracticable
.
He was a man of high See also:character, who refused to compound with falsehood and injustice, whose misfortune it was to serve two See also:Stuart sovereigns, and whose See also:firm resistance to the king's tyranny led the way to the great See also:movement which finally destroyed it
.
Besides his Apology, he was the author of several printed speeches and poems, and translated A Defence of the See also:Catholic Faith by See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter du See also:Moulin (161o)
.
He married Beatrix, daughter of Charles Walcot, and widow of Sir See also:John Dyve, and besides two daughters left two sons, George, who succeeded him as 2nd earl of Bristol, and John, who died unmarried
.
BIneloGRAPHV —The best See also:account of Bristol will be found in the scattered notices of him in the Hist. of England and of the See also:Civil War, by S
.
R
.
See also:Gardiner, who also wrote the See also:short See also:sketch of his career in
the Did. of Nat
.
Biog., and who highly eulogizes his character and See also:diplomacy
.
For lives, see Biographia Britannica (See also:Kippis), v
.
199; See also:Wood's See also:Ath
.
Oxon
.
(See also:Bliss), iii
.
338; D
.
See also:Lloyd's Memoires (1668), 579 See also:Collins's See also:Peerage (See also:Brydges, 1812), v
.
362 ; See also:Fuller's Worthies (See also:Nichols, 1811), ii
.
412; H
.
See also:Walpole's Royal and See also:Noble Authors (See also:Park, 18o6), iii
.
49; also Clarendon's Hist. of the Rebellion, esp. vi
.
388; Clarendon See also:State Papers and Cal. of Cl
.
State Papers; Old Parliamentary See also:History; Cabala (1691; letters) ; See also:Camden See also:Soc., See also:Miscellany, vol. vi
.
(1871) ; Defence of his Spanish Negotiations, ed. by S
.
R
.
Gardiner; See also:Somers Tracts (1809), ii
.
501; Thomason Tracts in Brit
.
Museum; See also:Hardwicke State Papers, i
.
494
.
The See also:MSS. at Sherborne See also:Castle, of which a selection was transcribed and deposited in the Public See also:Record Office, were calendared by the Hist
.
MSS
.
See also:Commission in See also:Rep. viii. app. i. p
.
213 and loth Rep. app. i. p
.
52o; there are numerous references to Bristol in various collections calendared in the same publication and in the Cal. of State Papers, Dom
.
Series; see also Harleian MSS., Brit
.
See also:Mus
.
158o, See also:art
.
31-48, and Add
.
MSS. indexes and calendars
.
(P
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.
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