Sir Walter RaleighYou have lived like a star at which the world has gazed, said the judge at Sir Walter Raleigh's trial. He was fortune's tennis ball, said another contemporary, to many others he was an arrogant liar. |
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... arrived with a ' rabble of all sorts of people , and everyone laden with somewhat , as if it had been a great market ... arriving from New Granada and Caracas ( possibly Berrío's son and Domingo de Vera ) . Topiawari feared the arrival ...
... arrived with a ' rabble of all sorts of people , and everyone laden with somewhat , as if it had been a great market ... arriving from New Granada and Caracas ( possibly Berrío's son and Domingo de Vera ) . Topiawari feared the arrival ...
Page 299
... arrival of English ships , and beacons were being lit. When Essex arrived off Finisterre he found that not only was the Warspite missing , but so were twenty other ships from the squadron . He had in fact known that the Warspite had ...
... arrival of English ships , and beacons were being lit. When Essex arrived off Finisterre he found that not only was the Warspite missing , but so were twenty other ships from the squadron . He had in fact known that the Warspite had ...
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... arrival . On the following day some cannon was fired from the fort , and it was seen that trenches were being dug on the beach . So on the fourth day , Essex having still not arrived , Raleigh sent boats ashore to a bay north of Horta ...
... arrival . On the following day some cannon was fired from the fort , and it was seen that trenches were being dug on the beach . So on the fourth day , Essex having still not arrived , Raleigh sent boats ashore to a bay north of Horta ...
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