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The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants
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Title: The Life of a Conspirator
Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants
Author: Thomas Longueville
Release Date: May 4, 2012 [eBook #39612]
Language: English
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SIR EVERARD DIGBY
From a portrait belonging to W. R. M. Wynne, Esq. of Peniarth, Merioneth
THE LIFE OF
A CONSPIRATOR
BEING A BIOGRAPHY OF SIR EVERARD DIGBY
BY
ONE OF HIS DESCENDANTS
BY THE AUTHOR OF
“A LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP LAUD,”BY A ROMISH RECUSANT, “THE
LIFE OF A PRIG, BY ONE,”ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., Ltd.
PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD
1895
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PREFACE
The chief difficulty in writing a life of Sir Everard Digby is to steer clear of the alternate dangers of perverting it into a mere history of the Gunpowder Plot, on the one hand, and of failing to say enough of that great conspiracy to illustrate his conduct, on the other. Again, in dealing with that plot, to condemn all concerned in it may seem like kicking a dead dog to Protestants, and to Catholics like joining in one of the bitterest and most irritating taunts to which they have been exposed in this country throughout the last three centuries. Nevertheless, I am not discouraged. The Gunpowder Plot is an historical event about which the last word has not yet been said, nor is likely to be said for some time to come; and monographs of men who were, either directly or indirectly, concerned in it, may not be altogether useless to those who desire to make a study of it. However faulty the following pages may be in fact or in inference, they will not have been written in vain if they have the effect of eliciting from others that which all students of historical subjects ought most to desire—the Truth.
I wish to acknowledge most valuable assistance received from the Right Rev. Edmund Knight, formerly Bishop of Shrewsbury, as well as from the Rev. John Hungerford Pollen, S.J., who was untiring in his replies to my questions on some very difficult points; but it is only fair to both of them to say that the inferences they draw from the facts, which I have brought forward, occasionally vary from my own. My thanks are also due to that most able, most courteous, and most patient of editors, Mr Kegan Paul, to say nothing of his services in the very different capacity of a publisher, to Mr Wynne of Peniarth, for permission to photograph his portrait of Sir Everard Digby, and to Mr Walter Carlile for information concerning Gayhurst.
The names of the authorities of which I have made most use are given in my footnotes; but I am perhaps most indebted to one whose name does not appear the oftenest. The back-bone of every work dealing with the times of the Stuarts must necessarily be the magnificent history of Mr Samuel Rawson Gardiner.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I. | PAGE |
| The portrait of Sir Everard Digby—Genealogy—His father a literary man—His father’s book—Was Sir Everard brought up a Protestant?—At the Court of Queen Elizabeth—Persecution of Catholics—Character of Sir Everard—Gothurst—Mary Mulsho—Marriage—Knighthood | 1-14 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Hospitality at Gothurst—Roger Lee—Sir Everard “Catholickly inclined”—Country visiting 300 years ago—An absent host—A good hostess—Wish to see a priest—Priest or sportsman?—Father Gerard—Reception of Lady Digby—Question of Underhandedness—Illness of Sir Everard—Conversion—Second Illness—Impulsiveness of Sir Everard | 15-32 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The wrench of conversion—Position of converts at different periods—The Digbys as converts—Their chapel—Father Strange—Father Percy—Chapels in the days of persecution—Luisa de Carvajal—Oliver Manners—Pious dodges—Stolen waters—Persecution under Elizabeth | 33-48 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| The succession to the Crown—Accession of James—The Bye Plot—Guy Fawkes—Father Watson’s revenge on the Jesuits—Question as to the faithlessness of James—Martyrdoms and persecutions—A Protestant Bishop upon them | 49-69 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Catholics and the Court—Queen Anne of Denmark—Fears of the Catholics—Catesby—Chivalry—Tyringham—The Spanish Ambassador—Attitude of foreign Catholic powers—Indictments of Catholics—Pound’s case—Bancroft—Catesby and Garnet—Thomas Winter—William Ellis—Lord Vaux—Elizabeth, Anne, and Eleanor Vaux—Calumnies | 70-96 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Roger Manners—A pilgrimage—Harrowden—Catesby informs Sir Everard of the Conspiracy—Scriptural precedents—Other Gunpowder Plots—Mary Queen of Scots, Bothwell and Darnley—Pretended Jesuit approval | public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@39612@[email protected]#Page_97" |