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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... fleet should proceed to Vigo and negotiate for their release . Soon afterwards the Privy Council issued letters of marque whereby permissions for reprisal against Spanish ships . would be granted to merchants who had suffered losses ...
... fleet should proceed to Vigo and negotiate for their release . Soon afterwards the Privy Council issued letters of marque whereby permissions for reprisal against Spanish ships . would be granted to merchants who had suffered losses ...
Page 257
... fleet , at present lying at Lisbon , was preparing to chase after Drake and Hawkins . A letter had reached him from the Canaries reporting an unsuccessful attempt by the English to land there . But , unknown to both English and ...
... fleet , at present lying at Lisbon , was preparing to chase after Drake and Hawkins . A letter had reached him from the Canaries reporting an unsuccessful attempt by the English to land there . But , unknown to both English and ...
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... fleet . Vere therefore advised Essex not to weaken the expedition he had planned for Cadiz . One imagines that Elizabeth would only reluctantly have agreed to Raleigh's participation , and that it would have been at the insistence of ...
... fleet . Vere therefore advised Essex not to weaken the expedition he had planned for Cadiz . One imagines that Elizabeth would only reluctantly have agreed to Raleigh's participation , and that it would have been at the insistence of ...
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