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Raleigh, Sir Walter

  1. An English explorer of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He is best known for his expeditions to the Americas and for introducing tobacco and the potato, two products of the New World , into England .


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Raleigh is often considered a near-ideal English gentleman of the Renaissance . A well-known legend holds that he spread his coat over a mud puddle so that Queen Elizabeth I would not have to soil her feet by walking through it.
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Raleigh, Sir Walter, trial of, i. 1-71; position on accession of James I., 2; overtures of, to French and Spaniards, 3, 4; examination and arrest, 5; indictment, 11-13; Coke's opening, 13-23; Cobham's examination, 23, 24; Raleigh's answer, 25, 26; Cobham's second examination, 26, 27; Raleigh's answer, 27, 28; his connection with Cobham, 29, 30; two witnesses required, 31-33; examinations of Watson, etc.,

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Railway Conciliation Boards, and their working, 111, 112 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1, 3 Regina v.

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He has written a score of excellent adventure stories, such as The Dancing Floor, Greenmantle, The Path of the King, and has shown a brilliant flair for dishing up heroes in immensely scholarly, reasonable and sound biographies: Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Scott.

Pimpernel, 43 Pinax, 151 Plantain, 9, 18, 29, 30, 135 Plantarum seu Stirpium historia, 94 Plantin, Christophe, 93, 94, 96 Platearius, Matthaeus, 66, 69 Pliny, 8, 10, 31, 88, 89 Plukenet, Leonard, 218 Pocahontas, Princess, 98 Porta, Giambattista, 233 Potato, 103, 116, 138 Practica Petrocelli Salernitani, 11 Priest, Dr., 98, 103 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 59 Pulteney, Richard, 94 Purfoot, Thomas, 94 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 105 Ram’s little Dodoen, 96, 212 Raspberry, 100 Ray, John, 81, 217 Red Indian plant-lore, 120, 125 et seq.

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Raleigh, Sir Walter, gorgeous costumes of, 525; last words of, 296.

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