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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... told that ... ' Hariot's name , not surprisingly , was bandied around . John Jessop , minis- ter of Gillingham , Dorset , said that he had heard that ' one Herryott of Sr Walter Rawleigh his howse hath brought the godhead into question ...
... told that ... ' Hariot's name , not surprisingly , was bandied around . John Jessop , minis- ter of Gillingham , Dorset , said that he had heard that ' one Herryott of Sr Walter Rawleigh his howse hath brought the godhead into question ...
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... told about the people who lived beyond the mountains - where Raleigh believed was Manoa . With a great sigh Topiawari told him that his eldest son had been killed in a battle there . These people had ' come as far off as the sun slept ...
... told about the people who lived beyond the mountains - where Raleigh believed was Manoa . With a great sigh Topiawari told him that his eldest son had been killed in a battle there . These people had ' come as far off as the sun slept ...
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... told him that he would die , at which , said Sánchez de Ulloa , ' Raleigh lost consciousness for a time , and on coming to himself , I am told he spoke most wildly . " He was taken back to the Tower and put in a different room . " They ...
... told him that he would die , at which , said Sánchez de Ulloa , ' Raleigh lost consciousness for a time , and on coming to himself , I am told he spoke most wildly . " He was taken back to the Tower and put in a different room . " They ...
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