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When the whole enterprise had failed , and the King and his party had to find some colorable pretext for sending him to the scaffold , these French negotiations were one of the counts most pressed against Ralegh .
When the whole enterprise had failed , and the King and his party had to find some colorable pretext for sending him to the scaffold , these French negotiations were one of the counts most pressed against Ralegh .
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French Embassy in London . La Chesnée told him that his master , the Resident " Le Clerc , wished to see him . The Government discovered this visit , and laid a snare , hoping that Ralegh might be beguiled into something that might be ...
French Embassy in London . La Chesnée told him that his master , the Resident " Le Clerc , wished to see him . The Government discovered this visit , and laid a snare , hoping that Ralegh might be beguiled into something that might be ...
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that he would ever want to have said ; and on the French negotiations , the little that he could say at such an hour and to so general a public must necessarily be a statement exceedingly complicated , compressed and comprehensive .
that he would ever want to have said ; and on the French negotiations , the little that he could say at such an hour and to so general a public must necessarily be a statement exceedingly complicated , compressed and comprehensive .
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh, Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Jul 2010 |
| Length | 416 pages |
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