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amusing endless busyness , showed the absurdity of this charge , in words he was to repeat memorably at his trial : God doth know , and I can give an account of it , that I have spent forty thousand pounds of mine own against that King ...
amusing endless busyness , showed the absurdity of this charge , in words he was to repeat memorably at his trial : God doth know , and I can give an account of it , that I have spent forty thousand pounds of mine own against that King ...
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Hallam makes one good point only , when , after admitting the preposterous nature of the charges , he adds : “ If ... is “ very probable that the charge of plotting to raise Arabella to the throne was partly at least founded in truth .
Hallam makes one good point only , when , after admitting the preposterous nature of the charges , he adds : “ If ... is “ very probable that the charge of plotting to raise Arabella to the throne was partly at least founded in truth .
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The King is to take no risk , to be at no charges ; all is to depend on " this hazard of a reed , ” this ... He is able to remind the Privy Council that they had once gone so far as to offer to be at the charge to transport Kemys into ...
The King is to take no risk , to be at no charges ; all is to depend on " this hazard of a reed , ” this ... He is able to remind the Privy Council that they had once gone so far as to offer to be at the charge to transport Kemys into ...
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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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