When we think of Sir Everard Digby accoutred and armed as if he were the leader of an army numbered by thousands, but actually surrounded by little more than a couple of dozen bedraggled and disheartened horsemen, all heavily, indeed over-armed, yet weary and unmilitary-looking to the last degree, himself haggard and anxious in countenance, yet vainly endeavouring to keep up a martial, knightly, and prosperous bearing, under conditions that rendered any such attempt ridiculous, we are inevitably reminded of that famous character of fiction, Don Quixote de la Mancha.
FOOTNOTES:
[271] S.P. Dom. James I., Vol. xvi. No. 94.
[272] S.P. Dom. James I., Vol. xvi. No. 94.
[273] Papers or Letters of Sir E. Digby, n. 9.
[274] He afterwards “assisted in taking prisoners”of some of the conspirators. S. P. Dom. James I., Vol. xvi.; G. P. Bk., n. 142.
[275] Biographia Britannica, Vol. iii. p. 184.
[276] Stow’s Annales, p. 880.
[277] Examination of J. Fowes, S. P. Dom. James I., Vol. xvi. n. 19. Letter enclosed from the Sheriff and Justices of Warwickshire.
[278] S. P. Dom. James I., G. P. Bk., Part II. n. 135. H.