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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... prison , after a general uprising , and to proclaim her Queen , with the help of Spanish troops from the Netherlands . For the past months Walsingham's spies had been mingling with the con- spirators , Mary's correspondence having been ...
... prison , after a general uprising , and to proclaim her Queen , with the help of Spanish troops from the Netherlands . For the past months Walsingham's spies had been mingling with the con- spirators , Mary's correspondence having been ...
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... prison . One must imagine that he had been greatly upset by the Lord Chief Justice in his final speech at Raleigh's trial , branding him as an evil influence and an atheist . A letter of deep distress from him to the Lords in Council is ...
... prison . One must imagine that he had been greatly upset by the Lord Chief Justice in his final speech at Raleigh's trial , branding him as an evil influence and an atheist . A letter of deep distress from him to the Lords in Council is ...
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... prison in London . Faige and Belle were afterwards to take charge of four vessels which were being fitted out at Le Havre and Dieppe , and with the aid of a map would join Raleigh's main expedition off the Guianan coast . If all this ...
... prison in London . Faige and Belle were afterwards to take charge of four vessels which were being fitted out at Le Havre and Dieppe , and with the aid of a map would join Raleigh's main expedition off the Guianan coast . If all this ...
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