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• Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677 -- Early works to 1800
• Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677 -- Library
• Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677 -- Lord Digbies speech in the House of Commons, to the Bill of attainder
• Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677 -- Lord George Digbie's apologie for himselfe

• George Digby, second earl of Bristol. (T.F. Unwin ltd., 1924), by Dorothea Baker Townshend (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir Kenelm Digby and George Digby, earl of Bristol (Digby, Long & co., 1912), by H. M. Digby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir Phillip Stapleton. His worthy speech in the House of Commons in Parliament, Ian. 15, 1641. Concerning the accusation of the Lord Digby and Colonell Lvnsford of high treason. (Printed for John Thomas, 1641), by Philip Stapleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The King of Denmarks resolvtion concerning Charles, King of Great Britain wherin is declared his determination for the setting forth of a fleet towards England, wherein the Lord Digbie, M. Piercy and Secretary Windebank are present being now ready to lance forth : read in the audience of both Houses of Parliament, June 29 : with the copy of a letter which was read in the Dutch church on Sunday last being the 3 of Iuly, concerning the escape which the Queen would have made from Holland to Yorke, unknown to the states and the Parliaments resolution concerning the L. Strange. ([London] : ... Printed for J. Thompson and A. Coe, July 5, 1642), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A message from both houses of Parliament, sent to the King and Queenes Majesties, touching certain letters lately intercepted, and, as it may be conjectured, sent from the Lord Digby, to the Queens Majestie whereunto is added the answer of Don Allonso de Cardenas the Spanish ambassador, resident here in England, to the late message sent to him from both the said houses, toughing the information given them of the ships at Dunkerk, for the ayde of the rebels in Ireland. (... London : Printed for Ioseph Hunscott, Febr. 21, 1642), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Articles of impeachment against George Lord Digby by the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, in maintenance of their accusation whereby hee standeth accused with high treason in their names, and in the names of all the Common in England : whereunto is added a strange and unheard of oraison put by the papists ... (London : Printed for John Wright, Feb. 28, 1642), by England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the King, a proclamation for the discovery and apprehension of the Earl of Bristol (London : Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker ..., 1663), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) and King Charles II of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A speech of the Honourable Nathanael Fiennes, second son to the right honourable the Lord Say, in answere to the third speech of the Lord George Digby concerning bishops and the city of Londons petition : both which were made the 9th of Feb. 1640 in the honourable House of Commons : in which is plainely cleared the severall objections that are made against the Londoners petition and also the great and transcendent evills of episcopal government, are demonstrated and plainly laid open. ([London? : s.n.], 1641), by Nathaniel Fiennes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Good news from Somerset-shire: of the taking of Captaine Digby son to the Earle of Bristow, who had raised a troupe of horse to come against the Parliament. : With the manner of his apprehending, and the staying of his horse by the town of Sherburne, and himself staid, to be sent up to the House of Parliament for his censure. : Also an instruction from both houses of Parliament to all iustices of the peace. / Joh. Brown cler. Parl. ([London] : Printed for Richard Thomson., 1642. August 12), by John Browne and England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Protestants wonderment, or, A strange and unheard of oraison put up by the Papists found in the pocket of Captain Iames Rauley, a rebell in Ireland : sent from Dublin in a letter of note / by Captain Edmond Hippisley to Sir Iohn Hippisley knight, a member of the House of Commons. (London : Printed for Iohn Franke ..., 1642), by Edmund Hippisley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Horrible newes from Hull· VVherein is declared how the Kings Majesty, attended by the prince and 400. horsemen, and 700 footmen are gone to besiege Hull. Likewise foure of the Kings ships under the command of the Palsgrave, and the Earle of Danbie, which have endeavoured to mount ordnance against the said towne on the other side of Humber. Also His Majesties resolution to take up armes against all those that shall oppose him. With many remarkeable passages concerning the last meeting of the gentry and commonalty of Yorkshire on Thursday last the 7. of Iuly. Whereunto is annexed a remarkable report concerning the Lord Digbie. Ordered that this be printed and published. Io: Browne, Cler. Parl. ([London] : Iuly, 11. London, Printed for J. H. and T. Ryder, 1642), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A remonstrance of the present estate of the Kings armie being an exact discovery of His Maiesties strength with the number of his forces taken at the generall muster on Mervill-Heath the 6th day of October : with many remarkable passages contained therein : 1. the two princes troopes, 2. the earles in their order, 3. a list of the whole number presented to His Maiesty by the Lord Digby commissary generall for His Maiesties army which is 1950 horse and 6500 foot, 4. His Maiesties honouring Prince Robert, 5. the effect of two letters the one from Marquesse Hartford the other from the Lord Mahone touching Plimmouth and other forts thereabouts, 6. the releasement of Captaine VVingate upon 500l. ransome. (London : Printed by Tho. Fawcet, Octob. 12, 1642), by J. H. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lamentable newes from Ireland being a true, perfect, and exact relation of the landing of 10000 men in that kingdom who are rumor'd to be under the command of the Lord George Digby who hath joyn'd himself to the rebels : who in their march toward Dublin, have fir'd two towns Racool and Sword : put both man, woman and child to the sword : also the sending forth of forces under Sir Thomas Moor to oppose the rebels proceeding his happy fight and joyfull victory : wherby their bloody proceedings were prohibited : also a strange apparition fo two stars which all the time during the skirmish appeared in a most glorious manner over the Protestant army. (London : Printed for I. G. Smith and A. Cot, 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A True description of a treacherous plot intended against this kingdome by the Lord Digby and his asistants at Sherborne in the county of Dorset with the exact number of armes, muskets, pikes and barrels of gunpowder, to the number of two hundred by him hid and contrived in an old cellar belonging to the Lord George his father : with the manner how and by what accident it came to bee descried : as also how the steward of his house being examined and found faultring in his speech was committed to prison where hee yet remaineth. (London : Printed for Iohn Hammond, 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Trve nevves from Yorke consisting of severall matters of note, and high concernment since the 13 of Iune : concerning these severall heads, viz. : concerning 1. Sir Iohn Meldrun, 2. L. Marq. Hamilton, 3. Earl of Newcastle, 4. Earle of Warwick, 5. Lord Willoughbit, 6. Duke of Richmond, 7. L. Marq. Hertford, 8. Earle of Bristoll, 9. Lord Paget : whereunto is added newes from Ireland, viz. : concerning 1. E. of Antrime, 2. E. of Castlehaven, 3. Lord Conway, 4. Lord Digby : with a catalogue of the names of the lords that subscribed to levie hose to assist His Majestie in defence of of [sic] his royall person, the two Houses of Parliament, and the Protestant religion. (London : Printed for M. T., 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Trve relation of the apprehension of the Lord Digby as hee was intending his iourney and shipped for France, intercepted by Sir Iohn Pennington, Vice admiral of His Majesties fleet and by him detained prisoner : with a bloody plot politically intended against the Parliament by certaine papists and their adherents : as also the opposition made by the inhabitants of Hull against a gentleman and his three hundred men sent by the Parliament : with their generall and free acceptance of the Earle of Newcastle authorized by His Maiesties commission to the same effect : as also the store of amunition wherewith the said towne is fortified. (London : Printed for Iohn Hammond, 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Two letters from Rotterdam dated July 1, 4, stilo novo, 1642 : wherin is discovered a most divelish and desperate designe contrived by the Lord Digby, Captaine Hide, Sir Lewis Daves, Mr. Iermin, Mr. Percy, and other fugitive traytors in those parts, against the Parliament of England : with the names of the ships, number of men, armes, ordnance, bullets, powder, and match, with other ammunition now in readinesse, to be transported into the north : also, the names of the most eminent persons which are to come over in the aforesaid ships : and divers other matters of extraordinary note and consequence. (Printed at London : for Joseph Hunscot, and John Wright, July the 6, 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Wonderfull discoverie of a terrible plot against Hutl [sic] by the designes of the Lord Digby, many papists and others of the malignant party declaring the manner how the two ships loaden with great store of ammunition of armes came under a pretended colour of merchants ships from the Indies : and how they would have executed their plot that night against Hull : also how by the providence of God they were discovered and apprehended : lastly, the true relation how five men in disguise would have entred into Hull as being a committee appointed by the Parliament to sit at York : having 100 horse and 500 foot lying in ambush to have seized upon the towne as soon as the gates had beene opened : with Irish depositions by His Majesties commission and an extract of a letter sent from Isidores Coll. in Rome, 4 January 1641. (London : Printed for Thomas Powell, 1642), by Bonaventura O'Connor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Printed paper cald the Lord Digbies speech to the bill of attainder of the Earle of Strafford ([London? : s.n.], 1641), by Worthy gentleman (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter sent to the Honourable George Lord Digby in Flushing from a worthy gentleman in Windsor, January the 24, 1641 together with the true coppy of a letter sent from Sir John Byron, lieutenant of the Tower to the House of Commons, concerning divers matter of great note and consequence. (Printed at London : For R. J., 1641), by Worthy gentleman in Windsor and John Byron Byron (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lord George Digbie's apologie for himselfe (Printed at Oxford [i.e. London] : [s.n.], 1642), by George Digby Bristol (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Matters of great note and consequence 1 divers questions upon His Majesties last answer concerning the militia resolved upon by both Houses of Parliament to be of dangerous consequence : 2 a true relation of the strange and unitmely deathes which hath successively befalen all the nobility and others which have beene the possessors of Shirborne Castle in Dorset-shire since that it was unlawfully usurped and taken from the church by King Stephen in Anno Dom. 1100 : which castle is now in the possession of George Lord Digby : and how the case stands with him I leave to the courteous reader to censure : whereunto is added certaine articles of high treason against the said Lord Digby. (London : Printed for George Thompson, 1641 [i.e. 1642]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Terrible and trve nevves from Beverley and the city of Yorke wherein is a true relation of the besieging of the town of Hull, by the Kings Majesty with six thousand horse and foote, on Thursday, Iuly 7, 1642 : also of Sir John Hothams drowning the country within foure miles of Hull, and what hath happened since, and His Maiesties resolution concerning it : with the Lord Digbies entertainment at the court, and divers remarkable passages Yorke, from the third of Iuly to the ninth of the same, sent in a letter from Yorke to a friend in London, Iuly the twelfth, 1642. (London : Printed for M. T., 1642), by P. H. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Printed paper cald The Lord Digbies speech to the bill of attainder of the Earle of Strafford. Torne in peices [sic] and blowne away. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1641) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A briefe relation, abstracted out of severall letters, of a most hellish, cruell, and bloudy plot against the city of Bristoll,: hatched and contrived by the malignants of the said city, Prince Rupert, George Lord Digby, and their fellow cavalliers, to have massacred, murdered, plundered, and destroyed, not only the well affected in the said city, but all others, that had not the mark of the beast upon them; happily discovered and prevented by the goodnesse and mercy of God, upon Tuesday the 7th this instant March, a few houres before it should have been put in execution. March 13. 1642. Ordered by the House of Commons, that this relation be forthwith printed. H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. (London : Printed by Richard Bishop for Lawrence Blaiklock, at the Signe of the Sugar loafe, neere Temple Barre, 1642 [i.e. 1643]), by I. H. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true relation of the taking of Roger Manwering Bishop of St. Davids coming from Ireland in a disguis'd habit, in the ship call'd the Eagle, the 28. of June, 1642.: By Captaine John Pointz. Also the relation of the sudden rising of the Lord Strange in Lankashire, and of his intention of the taking of the magazine of Larpoole. Likewise concerning the Lord Digbies coming over in the ship call'd the Providence, his being chased at sea by our ships. And how Sir Edward Stradling, and Colonell Ashburnham were with a French-man of war taken coming from Holland in a pinnace, going for Yorke. Unto which is annexed a conspiracie against Sir Henry Tichbourn Governour of Droghedagh, by Captain Garner; and how Tradagh had like to have been betrayed by the rebels. Also an order against proclaiming any proclamation, order, or declaration, contrary to any order or ordinance of both Pouses [sic] of Parliament. Hen. Elsing. Cler. Parl. D. (London : Printed by Tho: Banks, July 9. 1642), by John Pointz and England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Lord George Digbies apologie for himselfe: published the fourth of January, Anno Dom. 1642. ([London : s.n.], 1642), by George Digby Bristol (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Three letters intercepted by Sir Tho: Fairfax in Cornvval. The first, from the E: of Glamorgan to His Majesty; the second, from the Lord George Digby to his lady, the third, to his servant Walsingham; concerning their proceedings in Ireland. Sent by Mr. Peters to the Honorable House of Commons, and read in the said House. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that these letters be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. (London, : Printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Honorable House of Commons., March 26. 1646), by Edward Somerset Worcester, George Digby Bristol, and England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An ansvver to a pamphlet intituled the Lord George Digby his apologie for himselfe; plainly discovering the cunning untruths, and implicit malice in the said pamphlet against the just and legall proceedings of the Honourable the High Court of Parliament. (London : Printed for Thomas Iohnson, Anno Dom. 1643) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Bibliotheca Digbeiana, sive, Catalogus librorum in variis linguis editorum quos post Kenelmum Digbeium eruditiss. virum possedit illustrissimus Georgius Comes Bristol nuper defunctus : accedit & alia bibliotheca non minus copiosa & elegans : horum auctio habebitur Londini ... Aprilis 19, 1680. ([London] : H. Brome and B. Tooke, [1680]), by George Digby Bristol and Kenelm Digby (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sir John Evelyn his report from the committee appointed to consider of the printing of the Lord Digbyes speech concerning the bill of attainder of the Earl of Strafford whereunto is added the order for the burning of the said speech. ([London? : s.n.], 1641), by John Evelyn (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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