Dudley Digges (writer)

[1] He entered University College, Oxford, in 1629, proceeding BA on 17 January 1632 and MA on 15 October 1635.

[a][1][2] In September 1642 he is mentioned as one of a "delegacy" appointed to provide means for defending Oxford against the Parliament during the Civil War.

[b] He died at Oxford on 1 October 1643 of the malignant camp fever (presumably typhus) then raging there, and was buried in the antechapel of All Souls.

Anthony Wood described him as "advantaged by a great memory, and excellent natural parts, which he improved by close studying, he became a general scholar and a good poet and linguist".

In Oxford, he contributed Royalist poems to collections published by the University, including Musarum Oxoniensium and Solis Britannici perigaeum coronæ Carolinæ, both in 1633, and Flos Britannicis versis novissimi filiola Carolæ et Mariæ, in 1637.