# Raleigh

Author: Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928; Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27580

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Raleigh+Gosse&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Walter Raleigh was born, so Camden and an anonymous astrologer combine to assure us, in 1552. The place was Hayes Barton, a farmstead in the parish of East Budleigh, in Devonshire, then belonging to his father; it passed out of the family, and in 1584 Sir Walter attempted to buy it back. 'For the natural disposition I have to the place, being born in that house, I had rather seat myself there than anywhere else,' he wrote to a Mr. Richard Duke, the then possessor, who refused to sell it. Genealogists, from himself downwards, have found a rich treasure in Raleigh's family tree, which winds its branches into those of some of the best Devonshire houses, the Gilberts, the Carews, the Champern...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/raleigh-27580/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/raleigh-27580/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/raleigh-27580/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/raleigh-27580/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/raleigh-27580/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/raleigh-27580/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/raleigh-27580/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/raleigh-27580/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/raleigh-27580/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/raleigh-27580/chapters/9/index.md)