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 BRISTOL 321 Dive (or Dyves),(') of Bromham, Beds., da. of Charles Walcott, of Walcott, Salop. He d. 21 Jan. 1652/3, at Paris, aged 66, and was bur. in what had been a cabbage garden, but was then a Protestant churchyard. C") Will dat. 3 Dec. 1651, at St. Germain-en-laye, pr. 30 July i66o.() His widow d. 12 Sep. 1658, and was bur. at Sherborne, aged 84. M.I. II. 1653. 2. George (Digby), Earl of Bristol, Cffc.jS. and h., b. Oct. 1612, at Madrid. He ent., 1626, atMagd. Coll. Oxford, of which Univ. he was cr. M.A. 31 Aug. i636.('^) M.P. for Dorset, 1640-41. In Nov. 1640 he was one of the Managers for the im- peachment of the Earl of Strafford, but having recognised the injustice of the charges made against him, voted (21 Apr. 1641) against his attainder, and is wrongly said to have been in consequence expelled the House. He was sum. to Pari. v. p., in his father's Barony, 9 June i64i() by writ directed Georgia Digby chivaler, and took his seat the next day. He ever after adhered to the Royal cause, being Col. of a Reg. of Horse and Gov. of Nottingham, 1642; P.C. 28 Sep. 1643; Sec. of State, Sep. 1643-45; High Steward of the Univ. of Oxford, 1643-46, and again, 1660-63. Lieut. Gen. (north of Trent) 1645. Excepted from pardon, 24 Oct. 1648 by the Parl.jO (which, in Mar. 1648, had proscribed him and his father) when he retired abroad and became Lieut. Gen. in the French Army, 1651. Was nom. and inv. K.G. at Paris, Jan. 1652/3; inst. 15 Apr. 1661. Sec. of State and Lieut. Gen. for England, 1657, till incapacitated by having become a Roman Catholic. He m. Anne, 2nd da. of Francis (Russell), 4th Earl of Bed- ford, by Catharine, da. and coh. of Giles (Brydges), 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudley. He d. at Chelsea, 20, and was bur. 24 Mar. 1676/7, at (') His s.. Sir Lewis Dyves, was a well-known Royalist. (*>) Lady Fanshawe, in her Memoirs, says her son was buried between the Earl of Bristol and Dr. Steward. (^) In his character by Clarendon he is described as " of a grave aspect, a presence that drew respect, [and] a very handsome man [who] by the extraordinary favour of King James to his person [was] Ambassador to Spain before he was 30. Though he was a man of great parts and a wise man in Council he was passionate and supercilious and was too voluminous in discourse, so that he was not considered there with much respect." G.E.C. " Well accomplished, and of great parts natural and acquired, as gallant with his sword as eminent with his tongue or pen, but he had likewise so much of a romantick spirit, and of such superfined politics ... so as these eminences made him never prosperous either to himself or his master." (Sir Philip Warwick's Memoin, 1701, p. 279). "The wisest, most experienced, most cautious of living statesmen." [Life of Clarendon, by Sir Henry Craik, vol. i, p. 123). He was something of a poet. V.G. (^) For a list of peers cr. M.A. on this occasion, see note sub Henry, Earl of Sunderland [June 1643]. V.G. (') Lordi" Journals. Not 15 Car. I, as in Dugdale's Summonses. For a list of eldest sons of peers sum. v.p. to Pari., see vol. i. Appendix G. V G. (') See note "f" on previous page. 42