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XX. Communicated by T. W. Wrighte, M. A. Secretary. From the Papers bequeathed to the Society of Antiquaries of London. By the late John Thorpe, Esq. M. A. and F. S. A.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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This “briefe discourse” addressed to her most excellent majesty queen Elizabeth, was written, probably about the year 1582, by that most excellent mathematician of his time, and skilful engineer, “Thomas Digges, Esquire, sonne and “ heyre of Leonard Digges, of Wotton, in the county of Kent, Esquire, and of “ Bridget his wife, daughter to Thomas Wilford, Esquire, which Thomas deceased the 24th day of August, Ann. Dom. 1595,” Stowe's Survey of London, ed. 1720, B. iii. vol. I. p. 71, 72. For a more particular account of the life of this eminent person, see Wood's Athen, and the Biograph. Britannica.
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page 213 note [b] “When Queen Elizabeth sent some of her forces to the assistance of the “oppressed inhabitants of the Netherlands, Mr. Digges was appointed Muster” master-general of them, whereby he had an opportunity of becoming perfectly “skilled in military affairs, &c.” Biograph. Brit.
page 215 note [c] “King Henry VIII. expended 630001 upon a pier to restore the haven, but in vain” Historicial Description of a second antient Picture in Windsor Castle, by John Topham Esq. F. R. S. F. S. A. Lambard's Perambulation o Kent, p. 147, Camden's Britannia, ed. 1789. Vol.I. P. 120. Harris's Hist. Kent, P. 103.
page 219 note [d] Thomas Digges is said to have written “England's Defence: a Treatise “concerning Invasion; or a Brief Discourse of what orders were best for re-“pulsing of foreign Enemies, if at any Time they should invade us by Sea, in “Kent, or elsewhere,” in 1599, (there must be a mistake in this date, as he died in 1595, it was written probably in 1590): but not published till 1686. London, fol. in five sheets. There was a tract of the same nature published at the end of his Stratioticos, edit. 1590, intituled, “A Briefe Discourse what “Orders were best for repulsing of foraine Forces, if at any Time they should “invade us by Sea, in Kent, or elsewhere.” It contains only five leaves in 4to.—Biograph, Brit.
page 221 note [e] “See the petition of the mayor, jurates, and commonalty of Dover, presented “to the Lords of the Council, stating the importance of the harbour of Dover” &c. &c. preserved by Mr. Topham, in his “Historical Description of a Second “Picture as Windfold Castle,” p. 14.
page 222 note [f] See “Plat of the Town and Harbour of Dover, temp. Queen Elizabeth” published with “A. D. Peterson of an Antient Picture in Windsor Castle,” &c. by John Topham, Esq., F.R.S. F.S.A.