Everard Digby
See also: Digby
Sir Everard Digby (May 16th 1578 - January 30th 1606), English gentleman.
Dedicated catholic, it took a very active share with the Conspiration of the powders (1605), of which the goal was to make jump the Parliament the day when the king (Jacques Ier of England) there would come. He was stopped the weapons with the hand in the Staffordshire, where he prepared a rising, he was hung like his accomplices.
His/her son is Kenelm Digby.
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