Great Ralegh

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Hugh De Sélincourt. Great Ralegh

Great Ralegh

Table of Contents

PREFACE

GREAT RALEGH

CHAPTER I

BIRTH

CHAPTER II

EARLY DAYS

CHAPTER III

TOWARDS MANHOOD

CHAPTER IV

THE ARRIVAL

CHAPTER V

QUEEN'S FAVOURITE

CHAPTER VI

THE GREAT ENTERPRISE

CHAPTER VII

BUSINESS MAN

CHAPTER VIII

AGAINST SPAIN

CHAPTER IX

RALEGH AND SPENSER

CHAPTER X

EVIL TIMES

CHAPTER XI

THE KINGDOM IN GUIANA

CHAPTER XII

CADIZ AND FAYAL

CHAPTER XIII

THE UNDERMINING

CHAPTER XIV

SUCCESSION PLOTS

CHAPTER XV

THE TRIAL

CHAPTER XVI

THE KING'S FARCE

CHAPTER XVII

THE LONG IMPRISONMENT

CHAPTER XVIII

THE LAST JOURNEY

CHAPTER XIX

DEATH

FOOTNOTES

INDEX

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Hugh De Sélincourt

Published by Good Press, 2019

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This tells a less sombre tale, and when Nash begins to be scurrilous about John Harvey, the third brother, and records "the olde reakes hee kept with the wenches in Queenes Colledge Lane" (how strangely places retain their character!), the tale becomes less sombre still.

The Queen, too, would make journeys with royal visitors to the University, as in 1566, when Stowe tells with pride that she made "on the sodain an oration in Latin to the whole universitie of Oxford in the presence of the Spanish ambassadors;" so that neither university would be out of touch with the great world. Nor did the undergraduates keep at the same respectful distance from royalty that they are wont to now, as another delightful story of Nash about Harvey shows, who when the Court was at Audley End came "ruffling it out huffty-tuffty on his suite of velvet, to doo his countrey more worship and glory." He disputed with the courtiers and maids of honour, and at last was brought to kiss the Queen's hand, and the Queen was pleased to say that he looked like an Italian, a compliment from which he never quite recovered.

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