Note 598 — Chapter XI
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Sir Kenelm Digby was supposed to be deep in a scheme that the catholics, in 1649, should support the commonwealth with all their power, in return for liberty of religion. Carte's Letters, i. 216 et post. We find a letter from him to Cromwell in 1656 (Thurloe, iv. 591) with great protestations of duty.