After his father's death in 1595, his mother married Thomas Russell of Alderminster, now in Warwickshire,[3] who was named by William Shakespeare as one of the two overseers of his will.
Leonard Digges matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1603, the year of his mother's remarriage, and graduated BA in 1606.
The book was a copy of Rimas by Lope de Vega (published in 1613); it still survives, in the library of Balliol College.
a great master of the English language, a perfect understander of the French and Spanish, a good poet, and no mean orator".
The previous year, Digges and Jonson had both contributed commendatory verses to a work translated by Mabbe and published by Blount.