Dudley Digges

the son of Sir Dud. Digges mention’d before under the year 1638. was born in Kent, particularly, as I conceive, in Chilham, became a Commoner of Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1629, where by his wonderful pregnant parts overcoming the crabbed studies of Logic, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Lent term 1631, being then scarce 19 years of age. In the year following he was elected probationer-Fellow of Alls. Coll. as a Founders kinsman, and in Octob. 1635 he was licensed to proceed in Arts; at which time prosecuting his studies with unwearied industry, advantaged by a great memory, and excellent natural parts, he became a great Scholar, general Artist and Linguist. In the beginning of the civil war, he wrot,

An answer to a printed book, entit. Observations upon some of his Majesties late answers and expresses. Oxon. 1642. qu. 1647. third edit. He also wrot so subtile and solid a treatise of the differences between the King and Parliament, that such Royalists that have since handled that controversie have come far beneath him. The title of it is this.

The unlawfulness of Subjects taking up Arms against their Sovereign in what case soever, with answers to all objections. Oxon. 1643. qu. It was reprinted at Lond. 1647. whereupon a complaint being made to the Committee of Complaints, the Printers and Publishers of it were to be tried at the Kings-bench. It was also published again at Lond. 1662, in oct. part of which impression lying dead, there was a new title dated 16 [•] 9 put to it. At length being untimely snatch’d away to the great sorrow of learned men, by a malignant fever call’d the Camp disease, raging in the Garrison of Oxon, 1643. on the first day of Octob. in sixteen hundred forty and three, was buried in the outer Chappel of Alls. College. Of the said Disease Doctor Edward Greaves, Fellow of that house, wrot a little treatise entit. Morbus Epidemicus, &c. as I shall tell you when I come to him.