Private memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby ... / written by himself ... Now first published from the original manuscript, with an introductory memoir. [By Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas].

  • Kenelm Digby
Date:
1827
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Credit: Private memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby ... / written by himself ... Now first published from the original manuscript, with an introductory memoir. [By Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    insensibly to bring in the general opinion, and to overrun the new ones by the match, the King of Egypt [Spain] being the prin- cipal maintainer of that side ;’* but in another place he says that the Earl of Bristol employed him to negociate with the Archbishop of ‘Toledo, in conse- quence of his being highly esteemed by that prelate, ‘“ principally because their religion was the same.” Still more, when pressed to attach himself to state affairs, he expresses a wish that the Earl and he may not long entertain different religious opinions ; and then enters into a detailed explanation of his tenets.} For some time previous to 1641, Sir Kenelm was in France, where he is said to have been highly esteemed, and to have employed himself in composing elaborate treatises in defence of his religion; but an important event occurred to him whilst in that country, which has escaped his pre- vious biographers. * P.115. The whole of Digby’ s statement relative to James the First’s religious opinions in that and the preceding page, is very curious. + P. 172. t P. 177, et seq.