Crossword-Solution: DIGGES 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The three Governors of this period--Bennett, Digges, and Mathews are all chosen by the Assembly, which, but for the Navigation Laws,* might almost forget the Home Government.

None knew better than Digges their squalid and slovenly condition, or was more anxious to effect a reformation therein.

From Digges’ rhymes in the Folio of 1623, we know that Shakespeare already had his “Stratford monument.” _The existing object is what he had_; the monument in Dugdale is what, I hope, no architect of 1616–23 could have imagined or designed.

Gabriel Harvey in 1593, in his’ Pierces Supererogation,’ page 190, exclaims ‘and what profounde Mathematician like Digges, Hariot, or Dee esteemeth not the pregnant Mechanician?’ MrJ.O.Halliwell’s Collection of Letters referred to on page 174, though falling late under our eye, is most acceptable and thankfully used.

Ann Maria married Lewis Digges, old Commodore Burghe's boy that he set free before he died, and they have moved up to Washington to better themselves, and they're doing right well, as I hear.