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 224
... taken a Spanish ship laden with firearms , also a Flemish ship from which he had taken twenty butts of wine . All in good privateering tradition . Raleigh would have been sorry to have missed Popham , but not so pleased if he had known ...
... taken a Spanish ship laden with firearms , also a Flemish ship from which he had taken twenty butts of wine . All in good privateering tradition . Raleigh would have been sorry to have missed Popham , but not so pleased if he had known ...
Page 278
... taken , apart from the fort that fell some while afterwards . The citizens of Cadiz ( known in Spain as Gaditanos ) fled into the churches - there were 3,000 crowded in the cathedral . Orders had been expressly given by Essex that ...
... taken , apart from the fort that fell some while afterwards . The citizens of Cadiz ( known in Spain as Gaditanos ) fled into the churches - there were 3,000 crowded in the cathedral . Orders had been expressly given by Essex that ...
Page 507
... taken refuge there . This time there were no welcoming parties by local chieftains , and Lord Boyle kept his distance – rumours of troubles had already reached him , and Pennington seems to have already had a rough reception from the ...
... taken refuge there . This time there were no welcoming parties by local chieftains , and Lord Boyle kept his distance – rumours of troubles had already reached him , and Pennington seems to have already had a rough reception from the ...
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