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===[[name::Dudley]] [[name::DIGGES]] or [[name::DIGGS]] [[date of birth::1614]]-[[date of death::1643]]===
  
 
====Biographical Note====
 
====Biographical Note====
Son of [[son of::Sir Dudley Digges]] of Chilham Castle, [[Father lived at::Kent]].  [[has degree::BA]] [[educated at::University College, Oxford]] [[graduated in::1632]]; [[has appointment::fellow of All Souls College, Oxford]] [[is appointed in::1632]], [[has degree::MA]] [[graduated in::1635]]. Entered at [[has profession::barrister|Gray’s Inn]] 1641. Enlisted with the [[has profession::soldier|royalist forces]] at the beginning of the Civil War, and died of camp fever in Oxford shortly afterwards.
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Son of [[crossreference::Sir Dudley Digges]] of [[location::Chilham Castle, Kent]].  BA [[education::University College, Oxford]] 1632; [[occupation::fellow]] of [[organisations::All Souls College, Oxford]] 1632, MA 1635. Entered at [[organisations::Gray’s Inn]] 1641. Enlisted with the royalist forces at the beginning of the Civil War, and died of camp fever in [[location::Oxford]] shortly afterwards.
  
 
====Books====
 
====Books====
Digges bequeathed his library of ca. [[size of library::1300 books and pamphlets]] to All Souls (the largest gift the Library there had then received); the books were temporarily stored in the Warden’s lodging until 1665, when new shelving was built.  A ms catalogue of the donation was made at this time but some books were disposed of as duplicates, or unwanted.  The collection includes some older material, but dates largely from [[collection dates from::the late 16th/early 17th century]], and ranges across [[subject of books::theology]], [[subject of books::classics]], [[subject of books::history]], [[subject of books::dictionaries]] and [[subject of books::grammars]], with a little [[subject of books::medicine]] and [[subject of books::law]]; there are a number of [[printed in language::French]], [[printed in lanugage::Spanish]] and [[printed in language::Italian]] books. Examples:
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Digges [[bequest::bequeathed]] his library of ca.1300 books and pamphlets to [[beneficiary::All Souls College, Oxford|All Souls]] (the largest gift the Library there had then received); the books were temporarily stored in the Warden’s lodging until 1665, when new shelving was built.  A [[format::manuscript]] catalogue of the donation was made at this time but some books were disposed of as duplicates, or unwanted.  The collection includes some older material, but dates largely from the late 16th/early 17th century, and ranges across [[subject::theology]], [[subject::classics]], [[subject::history]], [[subject::lexicography|dictionaries]] and [[subject::grammars]], with a little [[subject::medicine]] and [[subject::law]]; there are a number of [[language::French]], [[language::Spanish]] and [[language::Italian]] books.
  
====Characteristic markings====
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====Characteristic Markings====
 
Most of Digges’s books are in plain and simple bindings of his time.  He sometimes wrote in “Dudleius Digges”, but typically did not inscribe them.
 
Most of Digges’s books are in plain and simple bindings of his time.  He sometimes wrote in “Dudleius Digges”, but typically did not inscribe them.
  
 
====Sources====
 
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<cite>DNB</cite>; Morgan; E. Craster, <cite>History of All Souls College Library</cite>, 1971, 60-63.
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*Craster, E. ''History of All Souls College Library'', 1971, 60-63.
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*Morgan, P. ''Oxford libraries outside the Bodleian''. 2nd edn, Oxford, 1980.
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*Stoker, David. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7636  "Digges, Dudley (1613–1643), royalist political writer."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.
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Latest revision as of 00:52, 22 April 2022

Dudley DIGGES or DIGGS 1614-1643

Biographical Note

Son of Sir Dudley Digges of Chilham Castle, Kent. BA University College, Oxford 1632; fellow of All Souls College, Oxford 1632, MA 1635. Entered at Gray’s Inn 1641. Enlisted with the royalist forces at the beginning of the Civil War, and died of camp fever in Oxford shortly afterwards.

Books

Digges bequeathed his library of ca.1300 books and pamphlets to All Souls (the largest gift the Library there had then received); the books were temporarily stored in the Warden’s lodging until 1665, when new shelving was built. A manuscript catalogue of the donation was made at this time but some books were disposed of as duplicates, or unwanted. The collection includes some older material, but dates largely from the late 16th/early 17th century, and ranges across theology, classics, history, dictionaries and grammars, with a little medicine and law; there are a number of French, Spanish and Italian books.

Characteristic Markings

Most of Digges’s books are in plain and simple bindings of his time. He sometimes wrote in “Dudleius Digges”, but typically did not inscribe them.

Sources