Sir Walter Ralegh: A BiographyAt the Clarendon Press, 1891 - 413 pages |
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... Queen's name should not be compromised . The leaders were to represent themselves as servants of the Prince of Orange . The English Government might , in proof of good faith , punish any naval officers who had abetted the project . Mr ...
... Queen's name should not be compromised . The leaders were to represent themselves as servants of the Prince of Orange . The English Government might , in proof of good faith , punish any naval officers who had abetted the project . Mr ...
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... Queen , and to his continuing interest in Irish affairs , Ralegh owed his regular entrance into the public service . In 1580 he was commis- sioned as captain of a hundred foot - soldiers raised to fight the insurgents of Munster , and ...
... Queen , and to his continuing interest in Irish affairs , Ralegh owed his regular entrance into the public service . In 1580 he was commis- sioned as captain of a hundred foot - soldiers raised to fight the insurgents of Munster , and ...
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... Queen's reign they had bought good English arms , and fought on even terms . One of his first public acts was to join Sir Warham St. Leger in trying and executing at Cork in August , 1580 , Sir James Fitzgerald , the Earl of Desmond's ...
... Queen's reign they had bought good English arms , and fought on even terms . One of his first public acts was to join Sir Warham St. Leger in trying and executing at Cork in August , 1580 , Sir James Fitzgerald , the Earl of Desmond's ...
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... Queen , through the influence , it is said , of Burleigh , refused her sanction . Next year Ralegh was writing again to Grey in vehement censure of Ormond . He repudiated any complicity in the defencelessness of the great wood of ...
... Queen , through the influence , it is said , of Burleigh , refused her sanction . Next year Ralegh was writing again to Grey in vehement censure of Ormond . He repudiated any complicity in the defencelessness of the great wood of ...
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... Queen and the lords took no slight mark of the man and his parts ; for from thence he came to be known , and to have access to the Queen and the lords . ' It is natural to suppose that Ralegh's Irish campaigns were con- cerned with his ...
... Queen and the lords took no slight mark of the man and his parts ; for from thence he came to be known , and to have access to the Queen and the lords . ' It is natural to suppose that Ralegh's Irish campaigns were con- cerned with his ...
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