storical scavengers, Aubrey and Osborn,'
_omit_ 'Aubrey and Osborn.'

P. 269, l. 11, _for_ 'against the phrase' _read_ 'against misuse of
the phrase.'

P. 285, l. 12, _for_ 'a statement in the Dialogue' _read_ 'a
statement in the Preface to the History.'

P. 317, l. 2, _for_ 'November 17' _read_ 'November 14, 1617.'

P. 324, l. 10 from bottom, _for_ '"I know"--or, according to the
Apology, "I know not"' _read_ '"I know," according to the
Apology--or, according to another account, "I know not."'

P. 335, ll. 11-14, _omit_ sentence 'Mr.... mob,' which, entirely in
error, attributes to Dr. Gardiner the opinion of another writer.

P. 373, l. 9 from bottom, _for_ 'God hold me and' _read_ 'God hold me
in.'

P. 398, l. 22, _omit_ 'and a fund of materials not yet properly
manufactured.'

_SIR WALTER RALEGH._

CHAPTER I.

GENEALOGY.

The Raleghs were an old Devonshire family, once wealthy and
distinguished. At one period five knightly branches of the house
flourished simultaneously in the county. In the reign of Henry III a
Ralegh had been Justiciary. There were genealogists who, though others
doubted, traced the stock to the Plantagenets through an intermarriage
with the Clares. The Clare arms have been found quartered with those of
Ralegh on a Ralegh pew in East Budleigh church. The family had held
Smallridge, near Axminster, from before the Conquest. Since the reign of
Edward III it had been seated on the edge of Dartmoor, at Fardell. There
it built a picturesque mansion and chapel. The Raleghs of Fardell were,
writes Polwhele, 'esteemed ancient gentlemen.' But the rapacious lawyers
of Henry VII had discovered some occasion against Wimund Ralegh, the
head of the family in their day. They thought him worth the levy of a
heavy fine for misprision of treason; and he had to sell Smallridge.

[Sidenote: _Ralegh's Parents._]

[Sidenote: _Their Character._]

Wimund married into the Grenville family; and in 1497 his son and heir,
Walter, was born. Before the boy attained majority the father died. As
Dr. Brushfield, a Devon antiquarian, to whose diligence and enthusiasm
all students of the life of Walter Ralegh are indebted, has shown,
Walter Ralegh of Fardell, on the termination of his minority, in 1518,
was possessed, in addition to Fardell, of the manors of Colaton Ralegh,
Wythecombe Ralegh, and Bollams. He may be presumed to have succeeded to
encumbranc