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40: 795: 591: 1054: 464:'s enforced absence from the court Digby aspired to become his successor. However, when the Cardinal was restored to power, he sent Digby away on an expedition in Italy, having penetrated his character and regarded him as a mere adventurer. When Digby returned to France he was told that he was included in the list of those expelled from France, in accordance with the new treaty with 558:, and publicly renounced before witnesses his Roman Catholicism and declared himself a Protestant. His motive was probably to secure immunity from the charge of recusancy preferred against him. When, however, the fall of Clarendon was desired, Bristol was again welcomed at court. He took his seat in the Lords on 29 July 1667. "The king," wrote 527:, when he found himself excluded from office on account of his religion, and relegated to only secondary importance. He tried to make an impression through restless and ambitious activity in parliament and he was violently hostile to Clarendon. In foreign affairs, he inclined strongly to the side of Spain, and opposed the king's marriage with 279:, in condemning a man for acts which were not treason when they were committed. He was regarded in consequence with great hostility by the parliamentary party, and was accused of having stolen from Pym's table Vane's notes on which the prosecution mainly depended. On 15 July his speech was burnt by the 619:
characterized him in a series of his smartest antitheses as "a singular person whose life was one contradiction". "He wrote against popery and embraced it; he was a zealous opposer of the court and a sacrifice for it; was conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strafford and
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in November, "who not long ago did say of Bristol that he was a man able in three years to get himself a fortune in any kingdom in the world and lose all again in three months, do now hug him and commend his parts everywhere above all the world." He pressed eagerly for Clarendon's committal, and on
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Bristol was one of the most striking and conspicuous figures of his time, a man of brilliant abilities, a great orator, one who distinguished himself without effort in any sphere of activity he chose to enter, but whose natural gifts were marred by a restless ambition and instability of character
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to Spain in 1657. On 1 January 1657, he was appointed by Charles II secretary of state, but shortly afterwards, he was compelled to resign office as he had become a Roman Catholic — probably with the view of adapting himself better to his new Spanish friends. Charles took him with him to Spain in
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to exonerate himself. When he confessed that he had "taken the liberty of enlarging", his "comedian-like" speech excited general amusement. In July, he broke out into fierce and disrespectful reproaches to the King, ending with a threat that unless Charles granted his requests within twenty-four
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to gain Henrietta Maria of France's consent to his scheme, but returned to persuade Charles to go to Paris, and accompanied him thither. He revisited Ireland on 29 June once more, and on the surrender of the island to Parliament escaped again to France.
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Clarendon describes him as "the only man I ever knew of such incomparable parts that was none the wiser for any experience or misfortune that befell him", and records his extraordinary facility in making friends and making enemies.
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disguised as a Frenchman, but on the return voyage to the Dutch Republic, he was captured and taken to Hull. For some time he escaped detection, but at last, after revealing his identity, he cajoled Sir
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was most unconscientiously a persecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts, he always hurt himself and his friends; with romantic bravery, he was always an unsuccessful commander. He spoke for the
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in 1668 records in the great Diary an outburst against Bristol from an elderly Cavalier, Mr Ball: "I said at the King's coming back that the nation could never be safe while that man was alive".
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In June 1663 Bristol tried to upset Clarendon's management of the House of Commons, but his intrigue was exposed to the parliament by Charles, and he had to attend the
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his imprudence was responsible for the betrayal of the king's plan. On the next day, Digby advised the attempt to seize the five members in the city by force.
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At Paris, amongst the Royalists, he found himself in a nest of enemies eager to pay off old scores. Prince Rupert challenged him, and he fought a duel with
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into letting him escape. Later on a second visit to Hull, he tried unsuccessfully to persuade Hotham to surrender York to the King. He was present at the
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and had issue, including Jean-Baptiste, Baron de Herent, who was later styled "Comte de Bristole". Like her father, she was a convert to Catholicism.
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hours "he would do somewhat that should awaken him out of his slumbers, and make him look better to his own business". Accordingly, on 10 July he
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In March 1668, Bristol attended prayers in the Lords. On 15 March 1673 though still ostensibly a Roman Catholic, he spoke in favour of the
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In the same month Digby was ordered to appear in the Lords to answer a charge of high treason for a supposed armed attempt at
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On 28 September 1643 he was appointed secretary of state and a privy councillor, and on 31 October high steward of
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the refusal of the Lords accused them of mutiny and rebellion, and entered his dissent with "great fury".
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in the French army, and commander of the forces in Flanders. These new honours, however, were soon lost.
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in April 1646, he intended to entrap him on board, but was dissuaded by Hyde. Digby then travelled to
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Although unwelcome to the Spanish, he succeeded in ingratiating himself, and was later welcomed by
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
196:. He spent the following years in study and in travel, from which he returned, according to 1226: 1221: 1199: 1081: 599: 508: 484: 303: 295: 269: 253: 229: 157: 8: 906: 686:
Diana Digby, who married in 1658 Rene de Mol, Baron de Herent (died 1691), a nobleman of
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princesses, but the royal marriage and treaty with Portugal were settled in his absence.
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of Strafford, and made an eloquent speech on 21 April 1641, accentuating the weakness of
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and his wife Catherine Brydges. She died in 1697. They were parents to four children:
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On 14 October 1645, he was made lieutenant general of the royal forces north of the
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Letters between Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt. concerning Religion
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King Charles mistakenly followed Digby's advice in preference to such men as
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On 8 February he made an important speech in the Commons advocating the
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on the subject of religion, already mentioned, he was the author of an
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Ronald Hutton, ‘Digby, George, second earl of Bristol (1612–1677)’,
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till July for striking Crofts, a gentleman of the court, in
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1659 on account of his "jollity " and Spanish experience.
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on the death of his father in January 1653 and was made
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Portrait of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, by Sir
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He was re-elected MP for Dorset for the 38: 960:Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz (2859), app. 788: 786: 784: 782: 780: 778: 776: 774: 772: 770: 768: 766: 764: 762: 760: 758: 746: 744: 742: 683:Francis Digby (d. 1672), died unmarried. 589: 19:For the Administrator of Hong Kong, see 1022:Pepys Diaries, entry for 17 March 1668. 734:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 393:, but he was defeated on 15 October at 262:Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford 1214: 927: 698:Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland 594:Portrait of George Digby in 1637 with 391:James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose 283:by the order of the House of Commons. 244:in November 1640. In conjunction with 198:George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 921: 805: 755: 739: 671:Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford 596:William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford 519:As Lord Bristol, he returned to the 503:. 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George Digby Barker

Anthony van Dyck
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English Civil War
John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol
Secretary of State
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House of Commons
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writ of acceleration
Royalists
English Civil War
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John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol
Tower of London
Magdalen College, Oxford
Peter Heylin
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
Fleet Prison
Spring Gardens
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