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... honour and safety which the King's Majesty might reap by that plantation , if it were followed to effect . I do still humbly beseech your Majesty that I may rather die in serving the King and my country , than to perish here .
... honour and safety which the King's Majesty might reap by that plantation , if it were followed to effect . I do still humbly beseech your Majesty that I may rather die in serving the King and my country , than to perish here .
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The letter is a desperate appeal for freedom , addressed to one of whose goodwill he is assured : Our late worthy Prince of Wales was extreme curious in searching out the nature of my offences : the Queen's Majesty hath informed herself ...
The letter is a desperate appeal for freedom , addressed to one of whose goodwill he is assured : Our late worthy Prince of Wales was extreme curious in searching out the nature of my offences : the Queen's Majesty hath informed herself ...
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much as to think you would attempt it without leave — that you should not presume to resort either to his Majesty's Court , the Queen's , or Prince's ; nor go into any public assemblies whatsoever , without especial licence obtained ...
much as to think you would attempt it without leave — that you should not presume to resort either to his Majesty's Court , the Queen's , or Prince's ; nor go into any public assemblies whatsoever , without especial licence obtained ...
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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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