it was very strange that his Majesty
    should slight so much his ancient amity with the most noble state
    of Europe, for the affections which he bore to a man (meaning Sir
    Kenelm) whose father was a traitor, his wife a ——­, and himself a
    pirate, altho’ he made not the least reply (as long as the
    ambassador remained in England) to those great reproaches, yet
    after, when the quality of his enemy was changed (by his return) to
    that of a private person, Sir Kenelm posted after him to Italy. 
    There sending him a challenge (from some neighbouring state) he
    found the discreet Magnifico as silent in Italy as himself had been
    in England, and so he returned home.”

p. xxii 1. 13 The Memoirs were edited by Sir N.H.  Nicolas from the
    Harleian MS. 6758 in 1827.

p. xxii 1. 28 “outburst of vile poetry.”  See Poems from Sir K.D.’s
    papers, ed.  Warner.  Roxburghe Club, 1877.

p. xxiii 1. 16 “hermit.”  The portrait of Digby in this guise, painted
    by Janssen, in the possession of T. Longueville, Esq., is
    reproduced in Mr. Longueville’s life of his ancestor.  Says Pennant
    in his Journey from Chester to London, ed. 1782, “I know of no
    persons who are painted in greater variety than this illustrious
    pair [Digby and his wife]:  probably because they were the finest
    subjects of the time.”

p. xxv 1. 3 “duel ... with a French lord.”  See the curious little
    pamphlet, Sir Kenelme Digby’s Honour Maintained, 1641.

p. xxvi 1.  I The Observations on Religio Medici, together with the
    correspondence between Browne and Digby, are often reprinted with
    the text of R.M.

p. xxvi 1. 5 “glass-making.”  See Longueville, pp. 255-6

p. xxix 1. 11 Descartes.  Des Maizeaux. Viede Saint-Evremond, pp.
    80-6.

p. xxxi 1. 8 A Late Discourse made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and
    Learned Men at Montpellier.  By Sir K.D., Kt.  Rendered faithfully
    into English by R. White. 2nd ed., 1658.  The original was in
    French.  Longueville gives a loathsome receipt for the Sympathetic
    Powder from an original in the Ashmolean.  “To make a salve yt
    healeth though a man be 30 miles off.”  But vitriol is the only
    ingredient Digby mentions; and the receipt given by his steward
    Hartman [see Appendix], and sold by him, is more likely to be
    Digby’s.  Of course, there were many claimants to the credit of the
    invention of sympathetic powders.

p. xxxiii 1. 4 “house in Covent Garden.”  For a brief account of this
    house, see an article on Hogarth’s London in the English Review,
    February, 1910.

p. xxxiv 1. 6 “history of the Digby family.”  This has disappeared.

p. xxxiv 1. 13 “Catalogue of the combined collection.” Bibliotheca
    Digbeiana, 1680.  See also Edwards’s Memoirs of Libraries, II,
    118, and Sir K.D. et les Anciens Rapports des Bibliotheques
    Francaises avec la Grande Bretagne.  L. Delisle. 1892.