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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Page 166
... attacks on Church abuses and in particular on the ' Martin Marprelate ' tracts * were held by the bishops as an indirect attack on the Queen herself as supreme governor of the Church in England . Thus in February 1589 she had issued a ...
... attacks on Church abuses and in particular on the ' Martin Marprelate ' tracts * were held by the bishops as an indirect attack on the Queen herself as supreme governor of the Church in England . Thus in February 1589 she had issued a ...
Page 200
... attack on religion itself but on the Church's failure to obtain its spiritual goals . Raleigh's interventions in Parliament on the freedom of thought , in connection with the bill penaliz- ing the Brownists , had come to be regarded as ...
... attack on religion itself but on the Church's failure to obtain its spiritual goals . Raleigh's interventions in Parliament on the freedom of thought , in connection with the bill penaliz- ing the Brownists , had come to be regarded as ...
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... attack on Cadiz as the surest way of damaging the war capability of Spain . He had certainly been giving the English information on undefended and weak points along the coast . Whether or not he received a pension from Elizabeth is ...
... attack on Cadiz as the surest way of damaging the war capability of Spain . He had certainly been giving the English information on undefended and weak points along the coast . Whether or not he received a pension from Elizabeth is ...
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