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… at the Tower, on returning from a visit to Sir Walter Raleigh, then also buried alive in the river-side fortress, …
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… in the mire of the roadway between gardens and park, young Raleigh spread his cloak that his queen might pass dry-shod. …
Old and New London
… on a chill October morning in the year 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh was led forth to die by the headsman's axe. On the morning of Raleigh's execution his keeper brought a cup of sack to him, … forward "to see him," he said, "and pray God for him." Raleigh took a richly embroidered cap from his own head, and …
Old and New London
… Harvey (Ironmonger) was mayor: during his show Sir Walter Raleigh was executed, the time being specially chosen to draw …
Old and New London
… but what there are, are interesting. Poor suffering Lady Raleigh, when driven from the side of her imprisoned husband, … of Tower Hill is Tower Docks, where luckless Sir Walter Raleigh, in disguise, after his escape from the Tower in … there commenced his "Fairy Queen," urged on by Sir Walter Raleigh. He seems to have spent about seventeen years in that …
Old and New London
… have been there represented. There blushed the chivalry of Raleigh. There wept the servile patriotism of Coke. There …
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… he listened to the advice of those who would have had Raleigh, Cecil, and Cobham banished from the Queen's … friends, to whom he stated that his life was threatened by Raleigh and Cobham. "In consequence of this news, Lords …
Old and New London
… her turn, when she became queen, bestowed it on Sir Walter Raleigh. On his attainder, however, the property was restored …
Old and New London
… we have to remember that he reviled Essex and insulted Raleigh. King James once said of Coke in misfortune that he … We may mention specially Plowden, the jurist, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas Overbury (who was poisoned in the Tower), …
Old and New London
… for the Crown was a collateral ancestor of Sir Walter Raleigh. The mayor's defence for putting the Kentish men into … place has neither air nor light, and is known as Walter Raleigh's cell. Absurd legend! The main floor consists of two … in the solid wall, and the largest of these is also called Raleigh's cell, though he was never confined there. Mr. Dixon …