See also:

• SIR

SIR KENELM See also:

• DIGBY, KENELM HENRY (1800-188o)
• DIGBY, SIR EVERARD (1578-1606)
• SIR KENELM DIGBY (1603-1665)

DIGBY (1603-1665)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English author, diplomatist and See also:

• NAVAL

naval See also:

• COMMANDER

commander, son of See also:

• SIR

Sir Everard See also:

• DIGBY, KENELM HENRY (1800-188o)
• DIGBY, SIR EVERARD (1578-1606)
• DIGBY, SIR KENELM (1603-1665)

Digby (q.v.), was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 11th of See also:

• JULY

July 1603, and after his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution in 16o6 resided with his See also:

• MOTHER

mother at Gayhurst, being brought up apparently as a See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic . In 1617 he accompanied his See also:

• COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
• COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
• COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

cousin, Sir See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Digby, afterwards 1st See also:

• EARL

earl of See also:

• BRISTOL
• BRISTOL, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• BRISTOL, GEORGE DIGBY, 2ND EARL OF1 (1612-1677)
• BRISTOL, JOHN DIGBY, 1ST EARL OF 6 (1580-1653)

Bristol, and then See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador in See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain, to See also:

• MADRID

Madrid . On his return in See also:

• APRIL

April 1618 he entered See also:

• GLOUCESTER
• GLOUCESTER (abbreviated as pronounced Glo'ster)
• GLOUCESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE, EARL OF (1243-1295)
• GLOUCESTER, RICHARD DE CLARE, EARL OF (1222-1262)
• GLOUCESTER, ROBERT, EARL OF (d. 1147)
• GLOUCESTER, THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, DUKE

Gloucester See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall (now See also:

• WORCESTER
• WORCESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• WORCESTER, JOHN TIPTOFT, EARL OF (1427—1470)
• WORCESTER, WILLIAM (c. 1415-c. 1482)

Worcester See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

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, and studied under See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• ALLEN, BOG OF
• ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
• ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
• ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
• ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
• ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
• ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
• ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)

Allen (1542-1632), the celebrated mathematician, who was much impressed with his abilities and called him the Mirandula, i.e. the See also:

• INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant See also:

• PRODIGY

prodigy, of his See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age.' He See also:

• LEFT

left the university without taking a degree in 162o, and travelled in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, where, according to his own See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account, he inspired an uncontrollable See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion in the See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen-mother, See also:

• MARIE

Marie de' See also:

• MEDICI
• MEDICI, GIACOMO (1817-1882)

Medici, now a See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady of more than mature age and charms; he visited See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence, and in See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1623 joined Sir John Digby again at Madrid, 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 when See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles 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 arrived on their adventurous expedition . He joined the prince's See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house-hold and returned with him to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England on the 5th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1623, being knighted by 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 I. on the 23rd of October and receiving the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of See also:

• GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

gentleman of the privy chamber to Prince Charles . In 1625 he married secretly See also:

• VENETIA

Venetia, daughter of Sir . See also:

• EDWARD

Edward See also:

• HANLEY

Hanley of Tonge See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

Castle, See also:

• SHROPSHIRE (SALOP)

Shropshire, a lady of extra-See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary beauty and intellectual attainments, but of doubtful virtue . Digby was a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of See also:

• GREAT

great stature and bodily strength . Edward See also:

• HYDE
• HYDE, THOMAS (1636-1703)

Hyde, afterwards earl of See also:

• CLARENDON, CONSTITUTIONS OF
• CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, 1ST EARL OF (1609-1674)
• CLARENDON, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK VILLIERS, 4TH EARL OF (in the Villiers line) (1800-r87o)
• CLARENDON, HENRY HYDE

Clarendon, who with See also:

• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

Ben See also:

• JONSON

Jonson was included among his most intimate See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends, describes him as " a man of very extraordinary See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person and presence which See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew the eyes of all men upon him, a wonderful graceful behaviour, a flowing See also:

• COURTESY (O. Fr. curtesie, later courtoisie)

courtesy and civility, and such a volubility of See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language as surprised and delighted." 2 Digby for some time was excluded from public employment by Buckingham's See also:

• JEALOUSY (adapted from Fr. jalousie, formed from jaloux, jealous, Low Lat. zelosus, Gr. j'i os, ardour, zeal, from the root seen in '&u', to boil, ferment; cf. " yeast ")

jealousy of his cousin, See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Bristol . At length in 1627, on the latter's See also:

• ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice, Digby determined to See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt " some generous See also:

• ACTION

action," and on the 22nd of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December, with the approval 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, embarked as a See also:

• PRIVATEER

privateer with two See also:

• SHIPS

ships, with the See also:

• OBJECT

object of attacking the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French ships in the Venetian See also:

• HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour of Scanderoon . On the 18th of See also:

• JANUARY

January he arrived off See also:

• GIBRALTAR

Gibraltar and captured several See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish and Flemish vessels . From the 15th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February to the 27th of March he remained at See also:

• ANCHOR (from the Greek ayrcvpa, which Vossius considers is from 6yi17 , a crook or hook)

anchor off See also:

• ALGIERS (Fr. Alger, Arab. Jezair, i.e. The Islands)

Algiers on account of the sickness of his men, and extracted a promise from the authorities of better treatment of the English ships . He seized a See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich Dutch See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel near See also:

• MAJORCA (Mallorca)

Majorca, and after other adventures gained a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete victory over the French and Venetian ships in the harbour of Scanderoon on the 1 ith of See also:

• JUNE

June .

His successes, however, brought upon the English merchants the See also:

• RISK

risk of See also:

• REPRISALS (Fr. represailles, from reprendre; Lat. reprehendere, to take back)

reprisals, and he was urged to depart . He returned See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home in See also:

• TRIUMPH (triumphus)

triumph in February 1629, and was well received by the king, and was made a See also:

• COMMISSIONER

commissioner of the See also:

• NAVY

navy in October 163o, but his proceedings were disavowed on account of the complaints of the Venetian ambassador . In 1633 Lady Digby died, and her memory was celebrated by Ben Jonson in a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of poems entitled Eupheme, and by other poets of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . Digby retired to See also:

• GRESHAM, SIR THOMAS (1519-1579)
• GRESHAM, WALTER QUINTON (1832-1895)

Gresham College, and exhibited extravagant grief, maintaining a seclusion for two years . About this time Digby professed himself a See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant, but by October 1635, while in France, he had already returned to the Roman 1 Letters by Eminent Persons (See also:

• AUBREY, JOHN (1626-1697)

Aubrey's Lives), ii . 324 . 2 See also:

• LIFE

Life and Continuation . Catholic faiths In a See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter dated the 27th of March 1636 See also:

• LAUD (Lat. laws)
• LAUD, WILLIAM (1573-1645)

Laud remonstrates with him, but assures him of the continuance of his friendship.' In 1638 he published A See also:

• CONFERENCE

Conference with a Lady about choice of a See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

Religion, in which he argues that the Roman See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church, possessing alone the qualifications of universality, unity of See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine and uninterrupted apostolic See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession, is the only true church, and that the intrusion of See also:

• ERROR (Lat. error, from errare, to wander, to err)

error into it is impossible . The same subject is treated in letters to See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George Digby, afterwards 2nd earl of Bristol, dated the 2nd of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1638 and the 29th of November 1639, which were published in 1651, as well as in a further Discourse concerning See also:

• INFALLIBILITY (Fr. infaillibilite and infallibilite, the latter now obsolete, Med. Lat. infallibilitas, infallibilis, formed from faller, to make a mistake)

Infallibility in Religion in 1652 . Returning to England he associated himself with the queen and her Roman Catholic friends, and joined in the See also:

• APPEAL

appeal to the English Romanists for See also:

• MONEY

money to support the king's Scottish expeditions In consequence he was summoned to the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar of the House of See also:

• COMMONS

Commons on the 27th of January 1641, and the king was petitioned to remove him with other recusants from his See also:

• COUNCILS

councils . He left England, and while at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris killed in a See also:

• DUEL (Ital. duello, Lat. duellum—old form of bellum-from duo, two)

duel a French lord who had insulted Charles I. in his presence . See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XIII. took his See also:

• PART

part, and furnished him with a military escort into See also:

• FLANDERS (Flem. Vlaanderen)

Flanders .

Returning home he was imprisoned, 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 House of Commons, See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in 1642, successively in the " Three See also:

• TOBACCO

Tobacco Pipes nigh Charing See also:

• CROSS

Cross," where his delightful conversation is said to have transformed the See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison into a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of delight," s and at See also:

• WINCHESTER
• WINCHESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Winchester House . He was finally released and allowed to go to France on the 30th of July 1643, through the intervention of the queen of France, See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne of See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria, on See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition that he would neither promote nor conceal any plots abroad against the English See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . Before leaving England an attempt was made to draw from him an See also:

• ADMISSION

admission that Laud, with whom he had been intimate, had desired to be made a See also:

• CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

cardinal, but Digby denied that the See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop had any leanings towards See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome . On the 1st of November 1643 it was resolved by the Commons to confiscate his See also:

• PROPERTY

property . He published in See also:

• LONDON

London the same See also:

• YEAR

year Observations on the 22nd See also:

• STANZA (Low Lat. stantia, Ital. stantia or stanza)

stanza in the gth See also:

• CANTO (from the Lat. cantus, a song)

canto of the 2nd See also:

• BOOK

book of See also:

• SPENSER, EDMUND (c. 1552-1599)
• SPENSER, JOHN (1559-1614)

Spenser's " Fab-le Queene," the MS. of which is in the See also:

• EGERTON, SIR PHILIP DE MALPAS GREY

Egerton collection (See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum, No . 2725 f . 117 b), and Observations on a surreptitious and unauthorized edition of the Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas See also:

• BROWNE
• BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
• BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
• BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
• BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
• BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
• BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
• BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
• BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
• BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
• BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)

Browne, from the Roman Catholic point of view, which drew a severe rebuke from the author . After his arrival in Paris he published his See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief philosophical See also:

• WORKS

works, Of Bodies and Of the See also:

• IMMORTALITY (Lat. in-, not, mortalis, mortal, from mors, death)

Immortality of Man's Soul (1644), autograph See also:

• MSS

MSS . Of which are in the Bibliotheque Ste See also:

• GENEVIEVE, or GENOVEFA, ST (c. 422-512)

Genevieve at Paris, and made the acquaintance of See also:

• DESCARTES, RENE (1596-1650)

Descartes . He was appointed by Queen Henrietta Maria her See also:

• CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

chancellor, and in the summer of 1645 he was despatched by her to Rome to obtain assistance . Digby promised the See also:

• CONVERSION (Lat. conversio, from convertere, to turn or ,change)

conversion of Charles and of his chief supporters . At first his eloquence made a great impression .

See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope See also:

• INNOCENT (INNOCENTIUS)
• INNOCENT (POPES)

Innocent X. declared that he spoke not merely as a Catholic but as an ecclesiastic . But the See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of any See also:

• WARRANT (Med. Lat. warantum; O. Fr. garant, warant, derived from O.H.G. root represented in modern German bygewdhren)

warrant from Charles himself roused suspicions as to the solidity of his assurances, and he obtained nothing but a See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

grant of 20,000 crowns . A violent See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel with the pope followed., and he returned in 1646, having consented in the queen's name to complete religious freedom for the Roman Catholics, both in England and See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland, to an See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament in Ireland, and to the surrender of See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin and all the Irish fortresses into the hands of the Roman Catholics, the king's troops to be employed in enforcing the articles and the pope granting about £36,000 with a promise of further payments in obtaining See also:

• DIRECT

direct assistance . In February 1649 Digby was invited to come to England to arrange a proposed See also:

• TOLERATION (from Lat. tolerare, to endure)

toleration of the Roman Catholics, but on his arrival in May the 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 had already been abandoned . He was again banished on the 31st of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August, and it was not till 1654 that he was allowed by the See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state to return . He now entered into See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close relations with See also:

• CROMWELL, HENRY (1628-1674)
• CROMWELL, OLIVER (1599-1658)
• CROMWELL, RICHARD (1626–1712)
• CROMWELL, THOMAS, EARL OF

Cromwell, from whom he hoped to obtain toleration for the Roman Catholics, and whose See also:

• ALLIANCE

alliance he desired to secure for France rather than for s See also:

• STRAFFORD, EARLS OF
• STRAFFORD, THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL

Strafford's Letters, i . 474 . ' Laud's Works, vi . 447 . See also:

• THOMASON, GEORGE (d. 1666)

Thomason Tracts, Brit . See also:

• MUS

Mus . E 164 (15) .

6 Archaeologia Cantiana, ii . 190 . Spain, and was engaged by Cromwell, much to the See also:

• SCANDAL

scandal of both Royalists and Roundheads, in negotiations abroad, of which the aim was probably to prevent a See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union between those two See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers . He visited See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, in 166o was in Paris, and at the Restoration returned to England . He was well received in spite of his former relations with Cromwell, and was confirmed in his See also:

• POST

post as Queen Henrietta lblaria's chancellor . In January 1661 he delivered a lecture, which was published the same See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month, at Gresham College, on the vegetation of See also:

• PLANTS

plants, and became an See also:

• ORIGINAL

original member of the Royal Society in 1663 . In January 1664 he was forbidden to appear at See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court, the cause assigned being that he had interposed too far in favour of the 2nd earl of Bristol, disgraced by the king on account of the See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of high See also:

• TREASON (Fr. trahison, Lat. traditio)

treason brought by him against Clarendon into the House of Lords . The See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his life was spent in the enjoyment of See also:

• LITERARY

literary and scientific society at his house in Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden . He died on the lrth of June 1665 . He had five See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, of whom two, a son and one daughter, survived him . Digby, though he possessed for the time a considerable know-ledge of natural See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, and is said to have been the first to explain the See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of See also:

• OXYGEN (symbol 0, atomic weight 16)

oxygen to the existence of plants, bears no high place in the See also:

• HISTORY

history of science . He was a See also:

• FIRM

firm believer in See also:

• ASTROLOGY

astrology and See also:

• ALCHEMY

alchemy, and the extraordinary fables which he circulated on the subject of his discoveries are See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence of any-thing rather than of the scientific spirit .

In 1656 he made public a marvellous account of a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city in See also:

• TRIPOLI
• TRIPOLI (Tarabulus el-Gharb, i.e. Tripoli of the West)
• TRIPOLI, or TARABULUS (anc. Tripolis)

Tripoli, petrified in a few See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours, which he printed in the Mercurius Politicus . Malicious reports had been current that his wife had been poisoned by one of his prescriptions, See also:

• VIPER

viper See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine, taken to preserve her beauty . See also:

• EVELYN, JOHN (1620-1706)

Evelyn, who visited him in Paris in 1651, describes him as an " errant See also:

• MOUNTEBANK (Ital. montambanco, montimbanco, from montare, to climb up on, mount, and banco, bench, cf. saltimbanco, an acrobat' or dancer, one who dances or leaps on a bench)

mountebank." 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 Stubbes characterizes him as "the very See also:

• PLINY, THE ELDER
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER

Pliny of our age for lying," and Lady See also:

• FANSHAWE, SIR RICHARD

Fanshawe refers to the same "infirmity." 1 His famous "See also:

• POWDER (through O. Fr. puldre, modern poudre, from Lat. pulvis, pulveris, dust)

powder of sympathy," which seems to have been only powder of " See also:

• VITRIOL

vitriol," healed without any contact, by being merely applied to a rag or bandage taken from the See also:

• WOUND (O. Eng. wund,connected with a Teutonic verb, meaning to strive, fight, suffer, seen in O. Eng. winnan, whence Eng. " win ")

wound, and Digby records a miraculous cure by this means in a lecture given by him at See also:

• MONTPELLIER

Montpellier on this subject in 1658, published in French and English the same year, in See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German in 166o and in Dutch in 1663; but Digby's claim to its original See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery is doubtful, Nathaniel Highmore in his History of See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

Generation (1651, p . 113) calling the powder " See also:

• TALBOT (FAMILY)
• TALBOT, MARY ANNE (1778-1808)
• TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX (1800–1877)

Talbot's powder," and ascribing its invention to Sir See also:

• GILBERT
• GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
• GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
• GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
• GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
• GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
• GILBERT, J
• GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
• GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
• GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
• GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
• GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
• GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )

Gilbert Talbot . Some of Digby's pills and preparations, however, described in The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelm Digby Knt . Opened (publ . 1677), are said to make less demand upon the faith of patients, and his See also:

• INJUNCTION (from Lat. injungere, to fasten, or attach to, to lay a burden or charge on, to enjoin)

injunction on the subject of the making of See also:

• TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

tea, to let the See also:

• WATER

water " remain upon it no longer than you can say the See also:

• MISERERE (the imperative of Lat. misereri, to have mercy or pity)

Miserere See also:

• PSALM (from the Gr. word * hXAew, to play the harp)

Psalm very leisurely," is one by no means to be ridiculed . As a philosopher and an Aristotelian Digby shows little originality and followed the methods of the schoolmen . His Roman Catholic orthodoxy mixed with See also:

• RATIONALISM (from Lat. rationalis, pertaining to reason, ratio)

rationalism, and his See also:

• POLITICAL

political opinions, according to which any existing authority should receive support, were evidently derived from Thomas See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White (1582–1676), the Roman Catholic philosopher, who lived with' him in France . White published in 1651 Institutionum Peripateticorum libri quinque, purporting to expound Digby's "peripatetic See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy," but going far beyond Digby's published See also:

• TREATISES

treatises . Digby's See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs are composed in the high-flown :antastic manner then usual when recounting incidents of love and See also:

• ADVENTURE (from Lat. res adventura, a thing about to happen)

adventure, but the See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of his more sober works is excellent . In 1632 he `presented to the Bodleian library a collection of 236 MSS., bequeathed to him by his former See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor Thomas Allen, and described in Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Bodleianae, by W .

D . Macray, part ix . Besides the works already mentioned Digby translated A See also:

• TREATISE

Treatise of adhering to See also:

• GOD

God written by See also:

• ALBERT
• ALBERT (1490'1545)
• ALBERT (149o-1568)
• ALBERT (1522–1557)
• ALBERT (FRANCIS CHARLES AUGUSTUS ALBERT EMMANUEL) (1819—1861)
• ALBERT (FRIEDRICH RUDOLF ALBRECHT)
• ALBERT, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS
• ALBERT, MADAME (c. 2805—2846)

Albert the Great, See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

Bishop of Ratisbon (1653); and he was the author of Private Memoirs, published by Sir N . H . See also:

• NICHOLAS
• NICHOLAS (1841– )
• NICHOLAS (or NICLAES), HENRY (or HENDRIK) (c. 1501-C. 158o)
• NICHOLAS, SIR EDWARD (1593-1669)
• NICHOLAS, ST

Nicholas from Harleian MS . 6758 with introduction (1827); See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal of the Scanderoon Voyage in 1628, printed by J . See also:

• BRUCE
• BRUCE, ALEXANDER BALMAIN (1831-1899)
• BRUCE, JAMES (1930-1794)
• BRUCE, MICHAEL (1746-1767)

Bruce with See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface (See also:

• CAMDEN
• CAMDEN, CHARLES PRATT, 1ST EARL (1714-1794)
• CAMDEN, JOHN JEFFREYS PRATT, 2ND EARL
• CAMDEN, WILLIAM (1551-1623)

Camden Society, 1868); Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers . . . with 1 Dict. of Nat . Biog. sub " Digby." See also See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• BOYLE
• BOYLE, JOHN J
• BOYLE, ROBERT (1627-1691)

Boyle's Works (1744), v . 302.preface and notes (Roxhurghe See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club, 1877); in the Add . MSS: 34,362 f . 66 is a poem Of the Miserys of Man, probably by Digby; Choice of Experimental Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery .

. . collected by Sir K . Digby (1668), and Chymical Secrets and Rare Experiments (1683), were published by G . Hartman, who describes himself as Digby's steward and laboratory assistant . See the Life of Sir Kenelm Digby by one of his Descendants (T . See also:

• LONGUEVILLE
• LONGUEVILLE, ANNE GENEVIEVE, DUCHESSE DE (1619—1679)

Longueville), 1896 . (P . C .