Index of Gardiner's History of England

Digby, Lord (George Digby),

• moves a vote of thanks to the Queen,
• character of,
• speaks for the reformation, and against the abolition, of episcopacy,
• speaks against the Attainder Bill,
• political conversion of,
• declares that Goring was not bound by his oath, and has to leave the House,
• is created a peer,
• the Commons censure his speech on the Attainder Bill, and ask that he may not be sent as ambassador to France,
• is appointed ambassador to France
• asks the Lords to declare that Parliament is no longer free,
• rejection of the motion of,
• is the probable contriver of the protest of the bishops,
• suggests the impeachment of the five members,
• is said to have offered to prove that Mandeville had directed the mob against Whitehall,
• having undertaken to move for Mandeville's arrest, leaves the House without fulfilling his engagement,
• urges the King to seize the five members,
• wishes to carry them off from the City,
• is intended to start for Holland and Denmark, to secure assistance for Charles,
• meets Lunsford at Kingston,
• his letter to the Queen from Middelburg is intercepted,
• is impeached,
• abandonment of his proposed mission to Copenhagen,
• is carried into Hull, and urges Hotham to surrender the place to the King,
• is allowed to escape,