Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Ralegh With Some Account of the Period in Wh
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Ralegh With Some Account of the Period in Wh
A T Thomson
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P. 48. T Osborne's Trad. Mem. P. 472. t Oldys, p. 148. § Remains, ]2mo. 1726. M2 138 LIFE OF SIR WALTER RALEGH. ledged by the King ; but that act of grace was the last ever accorded to him, and Cecil, who well knew that force alone could oblige Ralegh to succumb to his greater in- fluence, triumphed undisturbed and secure. The source of Cecil's apprehensions, the object of James's dislike, and the victim of the Spanish faction, a pretext was now only wanting to complete the ruin for which machi...nations were already in progress. An act of oppression, such as would, in the present day, make the country ring with clamor, soon intimated to Ra- legh the perilous situation in which he stood. One source of James's jealousy of Ralegh originated in his guardian- sliip of a female descendant of the Plantagenets, an heiress named Basset, who was thought by some persons to have a claim to the crown of England, and who had the more substantial possession of an estate worth three thousand a year. * This young person was betrothed to Walter Ra- legh, the eldest son of Sir Walter, a brave young man, who was afterwards killed in the expedition to Guiana.
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