Index of Gardiner's History of England

Digby, Sir John,

• appointed ambassador in Spain,
• finds that the Spanish Government is not eager for an English marriage,
• begs James to give up the idea of marrying his son to an Infanta,
• endeavours to obtain justice for the English merchants in Spain,
• coolness of the Spanish Government towards,
• discovers the secret of the Spanish pensions,
• returns to England,
• prepares to go back to Madrid,
• advises James to marry his son to a Protestant,
• foreign policy of,
• opens informal negotiations at Madrid on the marriage treaty,
• returns to England to give explanations on Somerset's connection with Sarmiento,
• advises the King to abandon the Spanish treaty, and is made Vice-Chamberlain,
• receives a grant of the manor of Sherborne,
• receives instructions formally to open the negotiations for the marriage,
• is ordered to support the plan for an expedition against Algiers,
• returns to Spain and negotiates with Aliaga,
• returns to England,
• is created Lord Digby of Sherborne,
• See Digby, Lord
• See Bristol, Earl of