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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... given as flagship to the Lord High Admiral , Charles Lord Howard of Effingham . He was delighted with her . ' I pray tell her Majesty from me ' , he wrote to Burghley , ' that her money was well given for the Ark Royal , for I think her ...
... given as flagship to the Lord High Admiral , Charles Lord Howard of Effingham . He was delighted with her . ' I pray tell her Majesty from me ' , he wrote to Burghley , ' that her money was well given for the Ark Royal , for I think her ...
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... given him some hold over sections of the gentry . Arguments continued about the Council's policy on Ireland , and he then grandly announced that as the greatest man in the kingdom only he was fit to save that country for England . The ...
... given him some hold over sections of the gentry . Arguments continued about the Council's policy on Ireland , and he then grandly announced that as the greatest man in the kingdom only he was fit to save that country for England . The ...
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... given to Tounson the next morning . Afterwards he slept for two or three hours . During the night Bess wrote to her brother , Sir Nicholas Carew at Bed- dington in Surrey : † I desire , good brother , that you will be pleased to let me ...
... given to Tounson the next morning . Afterwards he slept for two or three hours . During the night Bess wrote to her brother , Sir Nicholas Carew at Bed- dington in Surrey : † I desire , good brother , that you will be pleased to let me ...
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