[DY] In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 70v also, this is quoted, but there scored out, as 'Eupheme, being a poem left to posterity,' &c. There, for 'a Muse,' Aubrey reads 'his Muse.'
Leonard Digges (15..-1571?).
[871]Jacobus Digges[DZ], m. Philippa, filia Johannis Engeham
de Berham, armig. | de Chart, uxor 2da.
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Leonard Diggs, m. Sara, filia <Thomae> Wilford, de
de Wotton. | Hartridge in parochia de Cranbroke.
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Maria, Thomas Digges, m. Anna, filia Anna, uxor Sara, uxor
uxor ... filius et haeres | Warhami Willelmi ... Martyn.
Barber. Leonardi. | St. Leger, Digges de
| militis. Newington.
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Jacobus[872] Leonardus Dudlius Digges, de m. Maria, minima
Digges, de Digges, Chilham, miles: modo | filia et cohaeres
Bech, Armiger. filius (1619) superstes, | Thomae Kemp de
secundus. legatus ad | Olney, militis.
Imperatorem Russiae. |
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Thomas Diggs, primus Johannes, Dudlius, filius Anna. Elizabetha.
filius, armiger. filius 2dus. 3tius.
[873]Memorandum this visitation[874] was in anno 1619 by John Philpot.
They[875] were, for severall generations, of Barham in Kent. John, the sonne of Roger Digges of Mildenhall (which Roger is the first in this genealogie), vixit tempore Henrici III; and writt then Dig.—Memorandum here are 14 generations or descents to the last line: quod N. B.
Mr. Leonard Digges translated Claudian de raptu Proserpinae into English, 4to, 1617 and 1628.
[876]Leonard Digges, esquire, of Wotton[EA] in Kent—he wrote a thin folio called Pantometria, printed 15.. At the end he discourses of regular solids, and I have heard the learned Dr. John Pell say it is donne admirably well. In the preface he speakes of cutting glasses in such a particular manner that he could discerne pieces of money a mile off; and this he saies he setts downe the rather because severall are yet living that have seen him doe it.