tion, 312-322. His return to Eng- land; proclamation against him, 322. Attempts to escape, 327. Recommitted to the Tower, 330. His examination by the commis- sioners, 332. Relation of his con- versations with Sir Robert Wil- son, 338-347. The queen entreats for his pardon, 349. Warrant for his execution, 352. His last inter- view with Lady Raleigh, 355. His behaviour on the scaffold, 359-365. His execution, 365. Reflections on his character, 366-372.
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Raleigh, Sir Walter, his Account of Guiana defended against Hume's attack (Appendix), 373. He insti- tutes a club at the Mermaid, 374- 376. Alleged attempt to stab him- self, 376. Hume's errors in his account of, 377-381. Cecil's enmity to, 381. Plot against-its origin and secret history, 383-396. Errors of Mr D'Israeli regarding his History of the World, 396-400. Wilson's notes of his conversations, pre- served in the State-paper Office, 400. Confinement in the Tower- His unpublished manuscripts, 402- 405. Inventory of his jewels and trinkets, 405. His portrait, 406. Roanoak, island of, North America, 52, 54, 64.
Roch, Lord, capture of, in the Irish civil war, 31.
S. Sarmiento, Pedro, Spanish governor of the Straits of Magellan, anec- dote of, 56. Sidney, Sir Philip, his character, 36, 111.
Spanish Armada, for the invasion of England, 67-70. Sails from the Tagus, 78. Dispersed and driven back, 79. Sails the second time; its arrival off the Lizard, 80. En- gaged by the English fleet, 81-85. Anchors before Calais. 86. Its discomfiture, 87-89, and wreck in the North Seas, 90, 91. Spenser, Edmund, is present at the siege of Rakele, 27. His share of the Earl of Desmond's domains, 60.
Is visited by Raleigh; their friend- ship, 102-106. Is introduced to Queen Elizabeth, 108. Stanneries, warden of, nature of the office; Raleigh's appointment, 60. Stewart, Arabella, conspiracy re-
garding, a fiction, 229, 241. Stuart, Sir Robert, commands a Scottish force at the battle of Rimenant, 24.
Stukely, Sir Lewis, commissioned to arrest Sir Walter Raleigh, 323, 324. His treacherous conduct, 329. Sully, Duke of, passage from his
Memoirs regarding Raleigh, 378. Sussex, Earl of, his character, 35.
T. Tobacco, its first introduction into England by Raleigh, 57. Hariot's description of, 58. Tounson, Dr, dean of Westminster, his account of the last hours of Sir Walter Raleigh, 357-366. Trinidad visited by Raleigh, 136. Tyrone, Earl of, heads the rebellion in Ireland, 177.
V. Virginia, so named by command of Queen Elizabeth, 49. Settlement of, 51. Difficulties of the infant colony, 52-55. Second settlement of, 64.
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White, John, appointed governor of Virginia, 64. His return to England, 66. Wilson, Sir Thomas, appointed to the charge of Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower, 335. Conduct to his prisoner, 336. His relation of conversations with Sir Walter, 338-347, of which he sends a daily report to the king and Secretary Naunton, 341. Letter to the king, enclosing one from Raleigh, 345. Is Second letter to the king, 349. recalled from the Tower, 351. Notes of conversations with Ra- leigh, preserved in the State-paper Office (Appendix), 400-402. Winwood, Secretary, Raleigh's let- ter to, 309.
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