Sir Everard Digby (1578-1605/6).
[834]Sir Everard Digby (father of Sir Kenelme) scripsit libellum Latinè cui titulus:—
Everardi Dygbei de duplici methodo—
in 8vo, in dialogues.
I have heard Mr. John Digby say (his grandsonne) that he was the handsomest man (accounted) in England.
[835]Sir Everard Digby was a most gallant gentleman and one of the handsomest men of his time. He writt something in Latin de methodo, which I did light upon 23 yeares ago at a country man's howse in Herefordshire; and Mr. Francis Potter told me he writt de arte natandi.
'Twas his ill fate to suffer in the powder-plott. When his heart was pluct out by the executioner (who, secundum formam, cryed 'Here is the heart of a traytor!'), it is credibly reported, he replied, 'Thou liest!' This my lord Bacon speakes of, but not mentioning his name, in his Historia vitae et mortis.
Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665).
[836]Sir Kenelm Digby[DU], knight: he was borne at <Gotehurst, Bucks> on the eleventh of June[DV]: see Ben: Johnson, 2d volumne:—