Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

John

Last Name:

Digby

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1684

Inscription:

From: https://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/mansfield-woodhouse/hmonumnt.php

Deo Opt: Max: Sacrum et Memoriae
IOHANNES DIGBY Militis et Lvciae conjugis jplius
HIC
ortu clarus, et maiorum suorum licet non omnino dignitati equalis uirtute
tamen military clarior : uir in Exemplum natus bonitati similimus, uirtutibus tum
ad priuatum cultumtum ad publicam utilitatem spectantibus instructisimus insigriem
tam prudentiam tam in Principem patriames singularem fidem ad honoratissimum
sumini imperator’ officium in comitat’ EBOR’: NOTT’: et LINCOL’ : voluntate serenissimi
Regis prouectus Hoces officio ita perfunctus est ut gratissimum suis memorium sum […]cimo
omnium desiderio loco demum mox sata sedens posteris reliquerit […]
Illa Ab antique splendidaq TRIGGOTORVM familia in comi : EBOR : orta mari[…]ida
social, et in educandis pie’ liberis, curandaq re domestica mater familias incomparabila
Ille ohijt ANNO AETATIS SV[E] OCTOG[…]IMO SECVNDO VIXERUNT CONIVG[…]S
Illa ANNO AETATIS SVE NONAGESIMO SECVNI […]AGINTA ANNOS ET QVINQVE MENSES


Sacred to the Almighty and the most great God, and to the memory of John Digby, knight and Lucy his wife.
This
Of famed birth and of greater ...... allow none equal in dignity in any way, nevertheless by virtue more famed than any other knight; at the same time a man born into the example of goodness, notable by virtue as much in private life as in public in the instruction of sinners as much in prudence as in principal for his native country; of singular faith, advanced to the ordering of the most powerful and honourable office in the counties of York, Notts and Lincs and by his office thus discharged ..... by his memory..... of wishes, and at length sitting in the place granted by fate to his descendants .... from the most ancient and splendid family of Trygotts in the county of York came his wife, faithful in public life and in things domestic, mother of the family and most careful in the pious education of children able in all things.
He died in the 82nd year of his life and was survived five months by his wife in the 92nd year of her life.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

See: http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/page/sir_john_digby?path=0p32p329p