old the King 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.