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Encyclopedia > Everard Digby

Sir Everard Digby (May 16, 1578 - January 30, 1606) was one of those inculpated in the abortive 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate James I of England and Members of Parliament. Knighted by James on the way to his accession to the throne, Digby became involved in the plot only late in the day, and his involvement was thought to be purely of a fiscal nature. Nevertheless he was tried and executed with all the unpleasantness of the traitor's death of those times.


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Guy Fawkes Night: The Co-Conspirators (5967 words)
Digby was married to Mary Mulsho (the only daughter and heiress of the wealthy William Mulsho) and the father of two sons...Kenelm and John.
Digby provided money and management skills to the conspirators, contributing the princely sum of 1500 pounds sterling to the cause, and was to play a major role in the Midland Uprising, although he did not have much of an interest in politics.
Digby is believed to have been 24 years old at the time of his death and was one of only two conspirators (the other being Ambrose Rookwood) to be lamented by the crowd...possibly due to his youth and earlier popularity.
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