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 529
... things , how the King is at once putting in hand what he promised me about matters of religion and about Walter Rale , who has been declared a traitor and a pirate and as such has been sent to the Tower , waiting for our master , Your ...
... things , how the King is at once putting in hand what he promised me about matters of religion and about Walter Rale , who has been declared a traitor and a pirate and as such has been sent to the Tower , waiting for our master , Your ...
Page 535
... things he seems to make most recking of are his chemical stuffs , amongst which there are so many spirits of things , that I think there is none wanting that ever I heard of , unless it be the spirit of God . Wilson wanted to remove all ...
... things he seems to make most recking of are his chemical stuffs , amongst which there are so many spirits of things , that I think there is none wanting that ever I heard of , unless it be the spirit of God . Wilson wanted to remove all ...
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... things that should never have been said : about the Aremberg affair ; and about catching the Mexican treasure fleet in 1618. It is clear that there was more to be said about his dealings with Cobham , and he may have behaved deviously ...
... things that should never have been said : about the Aremberg affair ; and about catching the Mexican treasure fleet in 1618. It is clear that there was more to be said about his dealings with Cobham , and he may have behaved deviously ...
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