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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... wrote to Thynne that he was planning to study cosmography and the art of navigation under an ' excellent fellow who dwelleth here in London ' - who surely must have been Hariot . Another student of Hariot , who became a friend of Browne ...
... wrote to Thynne that he was planning to study cosmography and the art of navigation under an ' excellent fellow who dwelleth here in London ' - who surely must have been Hariot . Another student of Hariot , who became a friend of Browne ...
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... wrote to Philip on 11 July . He told how , according to Raleigh , Drake and Hawkins were to have joint command of this large fleet ( he exaggerated the size ) , and on some of the ships there would be flat bottomed boats . It was ...
... wrote to Philip on 11 July . He told how , according to Raleigh , Drake and Hawkins were to have joint command of this large fleet ( he exaggerated the size ) , and on some of the ships there would be flat bottomed boats . It was ...
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... wrote blaming Raleigh , Cobham and Sir George Carew , ' infamous here for their service'.2 So he wrote to the Queen in June : Is it not lamented of your Majesty's faithfullest subjects , both there and here , that Cobham and Raleigh - I ...
... wrote blaming Raleigh , Cobham and Sir George Carew , ' infamous here for their service'.2 So he wrote to the Queen in June : Is it not lamented of your Majesty's faithfullest subjects , both there and here , that Cobham and Raleigh - I ...
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