Chapter 1

P.

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-- _Leicester's Commonwealth_, 'by Robert Parsons, Jesuite, London, 1641' (according to Lowndes, and the _Dictionary of National Biography_, falsely attributed to him. Reprinted IV. _Harleian Miscellany_, 576-583. Originally printed abroad as early as 1584): p. 33.

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R.

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-- _Apology for his Voyage to Guiana_, first printed 1650, and generally annexed to his _Select Essays_, also published in 1650. Reprinted with the same essays, 1667. In the Oxford ed. of _Works_, viii. 479-506: pp. 320, 321, 324. 336.

-- _Discourse of War in General_: p. 11 [viii. 279].

-- _Discourse touching a War with Spain_: p. 17 [viii. 304-5].

-- _Instructions to his Son, and to Posterity_: pp. 167 [viii. 563], 187 [viii. 558].

-- _Letters_: pp. 20, 42, 56, 87, 88, 92-3, 95, 103, 106, 107, 151-2, 183, 233, 237-8, 257, 262, 293, 317, 324, 329, 349-50 [viii. 627-66].

-- _Match between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont_: p. 256 [viii. 224-36].

-- _Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy_: p. 256 [viii. 237-52].

-- _Maxims of State_: p. 286 [viii. 2].

-- _Orders to Commanders_: p. 313 [viii. 682-8].

-- _Poems_: pp. 12, 56, 72-81, 102, 103, 258 [viii. 697-736].

-- _Prerogative of Parliaments_: pp. 148 [viii. 199], 159 [viii. 187], 178 [viii. 178], 259 [viii. 179], 285 [viii. 154], 286 [viii. 213].

-- _Relation of Cadiz Action_: pp. 127 [viii. 668], 131 [viii. 674].

-- _Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Isle of Azores_ (not in _Works_), 1591. See Hakluyt.

-- _History of the World_: pp. 10 [vi. 211], 35 [vii. 789], 50 [iv. 684], 52 [v. 318], 65 [vi. 101-2], 66 [vi. 81-2], 85 [vi. 113-4], 134 [vii. 789-90], 137 [vi. 103-5], 162 [ii. 151-2], 167 [vi. 458-63], 204 [v. 210], 208 [ii. Preface, 2], 270 [vi. 83], 396 [vii. 900].

-- _Lives_, by Oldys and Birch. See Oldys and Birch.

-- CAREW, _Observation upon Sanderson's History_. See Heylin.

_Record Office MSS._: pp. 343 [Dom. Cor. James I, xcviii. § 79], 357 [Dom. Cor. James I, xcix. § 74], 373 [Dom. Cor. James I, Nov. 7, 1618], 383 [Dom. Cor. James I, Oct. 5, 1619], 385 [Dom. Cor. James I, ciii. §§ 76 and 21].

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S.

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SPEDDING, JAMES. See Francis Bacon.

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T.

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U.

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V.

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W.

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CORRIGENDA

P. 5, l. 12, _for_ 'him. It has not been' _read_ 'his career. Until lately it had not even.'

P. 5, ll. 22-26, _for_ 'In fact no trace ... face of Ralegh's words' _read_ 'But a few years ago an entry was discovered in the Registers of St. Mary Major, Exeter, of the burial in that church on February 23, 1581, of "Mr. Walter Rawlye, gentelman." Katherine Ralegh, as appears from her will, found in 1895, died in 1594.'

P. 89, l. 10, _omit_ 'published in 1615.'

P. 90, l. 2 from bottom, _omit_ 'in 1615 by Ralegh and his wife.'

P. 102, l. 28, _for_ 'absence of the detail of private life' _read_ 'barrenness in Oldys's biography of the detail of private life.'

P. 209, l. 7, _for_ 'Wolvesey Castle, the old episcopal palace, now a ruin' _read_ 'the great Hall of the Castle.'

P. 233, l. 20, _for_ 'Send me my life' _read_ 'Lend me my life.'

P. 248, l. 4, _omit_ 'and there remained all the years of his imprisonment.'

P. 248, l. 8, _for_ 'died on Tower Hill' _read_ 'was buried in St. Peter's Chapel in the Tower.'

P. 256, l. 14, _for_ 'the Duke' _read_ 'the Dukes.'

P. 258, l. 8 from bottom, 'Historical scavengers, Aubrey and Osborn,' _omit_ 'Aubrey and Osborn.'

P. 269, l. 11, _for_ 'against the phrase' _read_ 'against misuse of the phrase.'

P. 285, l. 12, _for_ 'a statement in the Dialogue' _read_ 'a statement in the Preface to the History.'

P. 317, l. 2, _for_ 'November 17' _read_ 'November 14, 1617.'

P. 324, l. 10 from bottom, _for_ '"I know"--or, according to the Apology, "I know not"' _read_ '"I know," according to the Apology--or, according to another account, "I know not."'

P. 335, ll. 11-14, _omit_ sentence 'Mr.... mob,' which, entirely in error, attributes to Dr. Gardiner the opinion of another writer.

P. 373, l. 9 from bottom, _for_ 'God hold me and' _read_ 'God hold me in.'

P. 398, l. 22, _omit_ 'and a fund of materials not yet properly manufactured.'

_SIR WALTER RALEGH._