Round the (Next) Bend
Simon Adams: Sir Walter Ralegh, 6 July 2000
The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh
edited by Agnes Latham and Joyce Youings.
Exeter, 403 pp., £45, July 1999,0 85989 527 0 Show More
edited by Agnes Latham and Joyce Youings.
Exeter, 403 pp., £45, July 1999,
“... could there be of demonstrating that commitment than bringing to justice the notorious pirate Sir Walter Ralegh? Gondomar had already returned to Spain by the time of Ralegh’s execution in October (he couldn’t stand the British climate), but it was widely seen as his work. He had, quite unwittingly, created a martyr. Ralegh became the last of the great ... ”