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Title: Sir Walter Ralegh
A Biography

Author: William Stebbing

Release Date: April 10, 2008 [EBook #25029]

Language: English

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SIR WALTER RALEGH

_STEBBING_

HENRY FROWDE, M.A.

PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

[Illustration]

LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK

[Illustration: SIR WALTER RALEGH
_From the Duke of Rutland's Miniature_]

SIR WALTER RALEGH

A Biography

By

WILLIAM STEBBING, M.A.

FORMERLY FELLOW OF WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD
AUTHOR OF
'SOME VERDICTS OF HISTORY REVIEWED'

_REISSUE_

_WITH A FRONTISPIECE AND A LIST OF AUTHORITIES_

Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1899

Oxford

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

BY HORACE HART, M.A.
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE vii

LIST OF AUTHORITIES xiii

CORRIGENDA xxvii

CHAP.

I. GENEALOGY 1

II. IN SEARCH OF A CAREER (1552-1581) 6

III. ROYAL FAVOUR (1581-1582) 22

IV. OFFICES AND ENDOWMENTS (1582-1587) 32

V. VIRGINIA (1583-1587) 42

VI. PATRON AND COURTIER (1583-1590) 53

VII. ESSEX. THE ARMADA (1587-1589) 60

VIII. THE POET (1589-1593) 69

IX. THE REVENGE (September, 1591) 82

X. IN THE TOWER. THE GREAT CARACK (1592) 88

XI. AT HOME; AND IN PARLIAMENT (1592-1594) 100

XII. GUIANA (1594-1595)