Who Killed Sir Walter Ralegh?
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Who Killed Sir Walter Ralegh?

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
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Who Killed Sir Walter Ralegh?

About this book

For 400 years, the true story behind Sir Walter Ralegh's downfall, his conviction for high treason and his eventual beheading has been shrouded in mystery. Was he deliberately set up by the brilliant but untrustworthy Sir Robert Cecil? Why did his friend Lord Cobham denounce him at his trial? And how could this towering figure of the Elizabethan age be accused of conspiring with his old enemy Spain to overthrow the king? In Who Killed Sir Walter Ralegh? Richard Dale draws on his legal background to unravel the extraordinary plots and intrigues that marked the last months of Elizabeth's reign and the first weeks of James' succession. In the bitter struggle for position, wealth and royal favour, only the most ruthless and devious could hope to win, but would the dwarfish, hunchbacked Cecil eventually prevail over the swashbuckling Ralegh? And in the eyes of posterity, who was the real victor?

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Information

Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780752456669
eBook ISBN
9780752467023
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction: Brought to Bay
  6. 1 Sir Walter Ralegh
  7. 2 Sir Robert Cecil
  8. 3 Shifting Alliances
  9. 4 Preparing for the Great Day of Mart
  10. 5 The Death of a Queen
  11. 6 The Lion Provoked
  12. 7 Treason: The Raptor Strikes
  13. 8 Holding the Line
  14. 9 Preparing for the Trial
  15. 10 The Trial
  16. 11 Was he Guilty?
  17. 12 The Aftermath
  18. 13 The Tower
  19. 14 The Final Gamble
  20. 15 The Last Act: Old Palace Yard, 29 October 1618
  21. Epilogue
  22. A The Prisoner’s Dilemma
  23. B Extract from letter of Robert Cecil to Sir Thomas Parry, 4 August 1603
  24. C Extract from letter of Robert Cecil to Sir Thomas Parry, 1 December 1603
  25. D Extract from Sir Edward Coke’s Prosecution Document
  26. Bibliography
  27. Copyright