Sir Everard Digby (1578-1605/6)
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.
’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.
Notes
834Sir Everard Digby (father of Sir Kenelme) scripsit libellum Latinè cui titulus:—
835Sir 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.