diggswell

Updated: June 18, 2025

'Trust me, gentle lords, said the Baron of Diggswell, 'ye shall have what ye demand when I learn that Lady Emma Darcy has not suffered from my imprudence. At this moment Lady Matilda, returning, said that her fair friend, on her recovery, had calmly and deliberately insisted that she had seen Fitzosborne before, in the most dangerous crisis of her life.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Complete

Here the first person they encountered was the Baron Fitzosborne of Diggswell, now divested of his armour; at the sight of whom the Lady Emma changed colour, and exclaiming, "It is the same!" sunk senseless into the arms of Matilda. "She is bewildered by the terrors of the day," said Eleanor; "and we have done ill in obliging her to descend."

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley