The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-03
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enough omst generously vice. for an
occasion to exercise his virtues; out OF
such apprehensions
AT place now called Old Wives
LEG. IN Chilham Parish. but formerly
oia"oods Lees from an owner of that
name. Is an annual race between voun q
maidens and bachelors "of good cor.
Versation and between the ages OF six
Teen and twenty four" tho two vic.
tors' maid and a bachelor. being en-
Titled to the sum of ten pounds each
under the will of Sir Dudley Dixges
Inc race is run on the 18th of Nav.
and is generally attended by a large
concourse of people. both Of gentry
a Biographical Dictionary of the Judge.
of EnsIand-108a-1s70.
DiSges. Dudley. whose pedigree. pr..
pared by himself, commences in the
reigh of Henry Ill. was the grandson
Vi leonard Digses. "ins!gnem mathe-
matieum' and the son of Thomas.
ma thematicum insignissimum." by
ahne' the daughter of Sir Warhann de
senueeer. Both of these prosenitors
30 eminent for their mathematical
studies. were resident at Digges Court,
Barham. In Kent. where Sir Dudley
was born in 1883 He was entered a
gentlemen commoner of University
Coiese In Oxford, where he took tho
degree OF B. A in 1901. and In the
mnltitudinous distribution of hon
OTIS oy KING James. he was knighted
soon after the accession.
He was. member for Tewkesburv
from 1904 to 1911. Part of this time
ne spent abroad. and in 1911 he /,
mentioned as busy with the dlscov
cry OF the northwest passage" and In
1914 as moving every stone to OBJ.
tain employment" Zeal. st. Papers
'ioli)' so,22b) He was subsequently
employed on mission to The Hague
whether he then held any office at
court ls uncertain; but he probably did
SO In october. 1915, when he debosed.
on tho trial of Weston for the murder
OF Sir Thomas Overbury, that the
knight had impaired to him his read.
ness TO be employed In an embassy Ia
RUSSIA, to which the King had appoint
ca MN he was certainly gentleman
OF the Kings privy chamber In 1918.
Tor he Is so described In a commission
of that date appointing him "ambas.
sador OF the great duke and lord OF
all Russia. to treat concerning O loan
from the King to the duke" or this
voyage. In which John Tradescant ac-
companied him as a naturalist, there
is DIS. account preserved in tho Ash
mclean Museum. Notes and Queries.
list 6. III, 3s2.)
In the Parliament OF 1891, SO fatal
to Lord Chancellor Bacon. Sir Dudley
sat again for Tewkesbury. and was
ono OF the committee that brought
forward the charges against the noble
delinquent. Though he seems to have
taken altogether a moderate and con.
cilitory part, the King thought other.
wise. for, though not included among
the "iIl-tempered spirits" mentioned in
his proclamation on the dissolution
whom he committed TO the Tower ST,
Dudley and few others were pun.
tehed by boiug sent into Ireland on a
frivolous commission. They were dis.
missed from their penal employment in
February. 1923, receiving each thirty
shillings q day for 124 days. from DC
tober 26. when they entered on their
commission (Pell Records 1853
Archbishop Abbot. in his narrative,
says that Sir Dudley had been "a great
servant" of the Duke of buckingham,
who. he presumes. lost his friendship
for some unworthy carriage offered to
him. and also alludes to Sir Dudley
being committed to the fleet and kept
there for seven or eight weeks, with
out any known reason for his impris-
onment. (Rushworth. l., 1909
1t Is apparent that these two per-
sons bore great illwill towards each
other. for Sir Dudley. In the second
Parliament of Charles I. C1626), was
one of the most active managers of
the impeachment against the duke.
In the conference with the lords, hav-
Ing made some allusion to the plaster
administered to the late Ning, Buck
ingham endeavored to fasten upon him
expressions which were little less thar
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thereupon obtained his committal to
the Tower. There was evidently o
wilful Misrepresentation of the words
used and on the murmured resent
ment of the Commons Sir Dudley was
released. after three days detention
(Whitelocke, 6) In the next year he
suffered another Imprisonment in the
fleet. for some uniting words" at
the council table. (cal. ST. Papers
us2D. 2. 64)
In Charles Ills Parliament (l62s)
Sir Dudley was returned for the coun.
~ OF Kent and took a prominent part
in forwarding the petition OF Right.
being appointed to open the confer
ence with the peers on tho subject
The lord president In reporting to the
house described him as IMAM of
volubility and elegance Of speech"
This parliament was angrily dis
was not called until eleven years af-
forwards In the interim Sir Julius
Caenr being a very old man, the re-
version OF his Office of master OF the
rolls had been granted to Sir Hum
phrey May. an old officer and constant
supporter OF the court. but he dying
IN fourteen months. the reversion in
the following November $500 was
given TO Sir Dudley Dlgges. who.
though a strenuous advocate for the
liberty of the subject. had. since the
death of his enemy. the duke. shown
no disposition to oppose government
measures. and had probably resumed
tanning this grant he entered himself
as a member of the society OF Gray's
Inn. and. honoris causa, was inme.
diately made q bencher. He had TO
walt for nearly ave years and a half
before Sir Julius Caesar died. but In
the meantime he was admitted one
OF the masters In chancery on January
%. 1881. He thus had slight oppor-
tunity of acquiring some professional