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XV.—Additional Information respecting the Life and Services of Sir Walter Raleigh, in a Letter from J. Payne Collier, V.P. to William Durrant Cooper, Esq. F.S.A.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

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In my recent letter to Mr. Ouvry of notes, memoranda, and documents, containing new materials for a Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, I brought the incidents with which he was connected down to the year 1584, when, as I established, he had received the honour of knighthood. I now continue the subject, and request you to be the medium of communicating what follows to our Society. The particulars, as in the former instance, are many of them minute; but, I apprehend, they are all of them more or less important, in reference to the character and conduct of a man who was highly distinguished in so many capacities, as a politician, a courtier, a soldier, a navigator, a poet, a patron, a philosopher, and a historian.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1852

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page 154 note a Tytler's Life of Raleigh, p. 71. Camden gives no date, but says merely that “Arthur Lord Grey, Sir Francis Knolles, Sir John Norris, Sir Richard Bingham, and Sir Roger Williams, knights and excellent soldiers, were made choice of to consult about the best way of managing the war at land.” —Kennett, ii. 543.

page 158 note a “The next year (1594) he was so entirely restored to the Queen's favour, that he obtained from her Majesty a grant of the manor of Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, which had been alienated from the see of Salisbury by bishop Caldwell, and was doubtless one of those church lands for accepting which he was censured.”— Chalmers, Biogr. Diet. xxv. 504.

Tytler says “that Raleigh's efforts in Parliament procured his partial restoration to the royal favour is evident, from his obtaining at this time a grant of the manor of Sherborne, Dorsetshire.”—P. 128.