I lived from 1578-1606. I was from England, and am in the English category.
Born 16 May, 1578, died 30 Jan., 1606. Everard Digby succeeded in his 14th year of age to large properties in the Counties of Lincoln, Leicester, and Rutland. He was distinguished for his great height, strength, horsemanship, swordsmanship, musicianship, and skill in field sports as Hawking (falconry). Everard Digby had charm and good looks, and was a great favourite in the court of Elizabeth and among the common people.
In 1596 he married Mary, sole daughter and heiress of William Mulsho of Goathurst, Buckinghamshire, with whom he obtained a large accession of fortune, and by whom he had two sons, Kenelm, born in 1603, and John, in 1605 --(visit the link of interest to read his letter to them, given in the Gunpowder-Treason, 1679).
About 1599 Digby made the acquaintance of the Jesuit Father, John Gerard, resulting in conversion to the Catholic Faith.
Digby was one of the last Gunpowder Plot conspirators to join. Owing to the delay occasioned by an unexpected prorogation of Parliament, Robert Catesby, finding his own treasury exhausted, sought to enlist as associates some men of means. One was Digby, who was inducted and sworn in "about a week after Michaelmas", 1605. Digby agreed to contribute £1500, and to move to Coughton Court to become centrally located. His role in the plot was to manage the Midlands operations. He was to gather a large group of Catholic gentry at Dunsmoor Heath under the 'guise of a hunt', who would be brought into confidence once the gunpowder was fired. This group was to capture the Princess Elizabeth - who would have been almost sole survivor of the royal family if the Parliament buildings had exploded. Their plan was to use her as a pawn, while making her Queen, to gain control of the UK, as clearly stated in the Indictment:--
In 1596 he married Mary, sole daughter and heiress of William Mulsho of Goathurst, Buckinghamshire, with whom he obtained a large accession of fortune, and by whom he had two sons, Kenelm, born in 1603, and John, in 1605 --(visit the link of interest to read his letter to them, given in the Gunpowder-Treason, 1679).
About 1599 Digby made the acquaintance of the Jesuit Father, John Gerard, resulting in conversion to the Catholic Faith.
Digby was one of the last Gunpowder Plot conspirators to join. Owing to the delay occasioned by an unexpected prorogation of Parliament, Robert Catesby, finding his own treasury exhausted, sought to enlist as associates some men of means. One was Digby, who was inducted and sworn in "about a week after Michaelmas", 1605. Digby agreed to contribute £1500, and to move to Coughton Court to become centrally located. His role in the plot was to manage the Midlands operations. He was to gather a large group of Catholic gentry at Dunsmoor Heath under the 'guise of a hunt', who would be brought into confidence once the gunpowder was fired. This group was to capture the Princess Elizabeth - who would have been almost sole survivor of the royal family if the Parliament buildings had exploded. Their plan was to use her as a pawn, while making her Queen, to gain control of the UK, as clearly stated in the Indictment:--
Links of interest include http://www.bcpl.net/~cbladey/guy/html/thekingsbook.html
My poetry
- Come grief, possess that place thy Harbingers have seen,
And think most fit to entertain thy self;76 lines - Who's that which knocks? Oh stay, my Lord, I come:
I know that call, since first it made me know20 lines
