The life of Sir Walter Ralegh from his birth to his death on the scaffold ... : the whole compiled from the most approved authorities and curious manuscripts
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The life of Sir Walter Ralegh from his birth to his death on the scaffold ... : the whole compiled from the most approved authorities and curious manuscripts
Printed for the booksellers in town and country, 1740
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Published anonymously. By William Oldys. An apparently unauthorized reprint, with slight changes from the text which first appeared prefixed to the 1736 edition of Ralegh's History of the world. -- NYPL
"The trial of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt. for high treason at Winton the 17th of November 1603, 1 Jac. I": p. [528]-576
"The whole compiled from the most approved authorities and curious manuscripts."
Contents of Works
- 1. An Account of his family, its antiquity, dignity, power, and wealth
- 2. His gradual rife, and the steps he took in his youth to that fame and reputation which he enjoyed in his riper years
- 3. His gallant actions in France in behalf of the Hugonots, and in Ireland against the Rebels
- 4. His several Naval expeditions to America and other parts; with his discovery of Virginia
- 5. The share he had in the glorious and ever memorable victory which the English Fleet obtained over the Spanish Armada in the year 1588
- 6. A relation of a most desperate engagement between Sir Richard Greenvil in the revenge against the whole Spanish Fleet
- 7. The trial at large of Sir Walter Ralegh, his condemnation, long imprisonment in the Tower, and execution
