Project Gutenberg 2012-05-04 Public domain in the USA. 98 Longueville, Thomas 1844 1922 De Longueville, Thomas Longueville, Thomas de 03026653 The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Pat McCoy, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) "The Life of a Conspirator" by Thomas Longueville is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The biography delves into the life of Sir Everard Digby, a notable figure entangled in the infamous Gunpowder Plot, exploring his motivations, character, and the consequences of his actions during a tumultuous period for Catholics in England. At the start of the biography, the author introduces Digby as an interesting yet tragically flawed character, highlighting the challenges posed by the political and religious climate of his time. Longueville discusses Digby's noble lineage, his upbringing, and his conversion to Catholicism, indicating his internal struggle influenced by the severe persecution Catholics faced under Queen Elizabeth and King James I. The opening chapters also provide insight into Digby’s early life at court, his marriage, and the hospitable environment of his estate, Gothurst, establishing context for his later involvement in the conspiracy that would seal his tragic fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/39612/39612-h/images/cover.jpg en Gunpowder Plot, 1605 Digby, Everard, Sir, 1578-1606 DA Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: History - European Browsing: History - General 822534 822272 2024-09-16T15:12:16.849408 2023-09-17T09:34:28.127954 text/html text/html 841715 2012-05-04T17:06:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 504629 2012-05-04T17:09:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 517781 2024-09-16T15:12:32.133299 application/epub+zip 527533 2024-09-16T15:12:19.265332 application/epub+zip 334095 2024-09-16T15:12:17.868369 application/epub+zip 777025 2024-09-16T15:12:40.045240 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 723107 2024-09-16T15:12:30.677358 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 548196 2022-09-18T07:15:09.739093 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 643011 642783 2024-09-16T15:12:13.676346 2023-09-17T09:34:25.204947 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 642369 2012-05-04T17:01:43 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 236790 2012-05-04T17:01:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 642302 2012-05-04T17:01:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 236494 2012-05-04T17:01:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20616 2024-09-16T15:12:40.208241 application/rdf+xml 14784 2024-09-16T15:12:18.063337 image/jpeg 2195 2024-09-16T15:12:17.966326 image/jpeg 503008 2024-09-16T15:12:16.923374 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog