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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... followed this by capturing twenty - three castles , massacring all who resisted , including as he blithely admitted women and children . His habit of making an avenue to his tent with severed heads has already been mentioned ; pris ...
... followed this by capturing twenty - three castles , massacring all who resisted , including as he blithely admitted women and children . His habit of making an avenue to his tent with severed heads has already been mentioned ; pris ...
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... followed . He sent her twelve ounces of amber- gris perfume , an ounce of extract of amber , ' a great glass of rosewater in high estimation here ' , a cutwork ruff and , oddly for such a staunch anti - Catholic , a ' very excellent ...
... followed . He sent her twelve ounces of amber- gris perfume , an ounce of extract of amber , ' a great glass of rosewater in high estimation here ' , a cutwork ruff and , oddly for such a staunch anti - Catholic , a ' very excellent ...
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... followed by the English . A messenger had been sent , warning the English that the town was Spanish , but no notice had been taken . San Thome was stormed and pillaged , and houses were burnt . Afterwards another messenger was sent ...
... followed by the English . A messenger had been sent , warning the English that the town was Spanish , but no notice had been taken . San Thome was stormed and pillaged , and houses were burnt . Afterwards another messenger was sent ...
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