Sir Walter Raleigh: In Life & Legend
1754), p. ii, 10.

    9 P E. J. Hammer, 'New light on the Cadiz expedition of 1596', Historical Research 70 (1997), 182-202.

    10 R. B. Wernham, The Return of the Armadas, the Last Years of the Elizabethan War Against Spain, 1595-1603 (Oxford, 1994), pp. 96-102. On learning, directly from Ralegh, that the fleet were to penetrate the harbour, Essex had tossed his hat so far into the air that it was blown into the sea.

    11 See below, Chapter Eleven, pp. 245-7.

    12 Letters of Ralegh, pp. 148-50.
    13 Works of Rategh, viii, pp. 667-74, at 672.

    14 TNA, SP 12/259/94-6.

    15 Rowse, Ralegh and the Throckinortons, p. 202.

    16 Letters of Ralegh, p. 150.
    17 Sir George Gifford to the Earl of Southampton, 5 July 1596, Hatfield MS 199/54. See also a predictably partial account of Ralegh's actions from Sir George Carew, Hatfield MS 41/99.

    18 See for example Hatfield MS 42/9.

    19 Hatfield MS 51/86, a letter petitioning for appointment to the Guard; N. E. McClure (ed.), The Letters of John Chamberlain (Philadelphia, 1939), i, p. 31.

    20 HMC, Dc L'Isle and Dudley, ii, pp. 285-6.

    21 Letters of Chamberlain, i, p. 43, letter dated 30 August 1598.

    22 Hatfield MS 46/32.
    23 Tooker to Cecil, 23 July 1596, Hatfield MS 42/79.

    24 Letters of Ralegh, pp. 154-6.

    25 A. R. Beer, My just Desire: the life of Bess Ralegh, wife to Sir Walter (New York, 2003), p. 101.

    26 Letters of Ralegh, p. 160.

    27 Beer, My Just Desire, p. 101; N. Mears, 'Regnum Cecilianum? A Cecilian perspective of the Court', in J. Guy (ed.), The Reign of Elizabeth I: court and culture in the last decade (Cambridge, 1995), p. 46-64 at 56-8.

    28 HMC, De L'Isle and Dudley, ii, p. 251.

    29 A. M. C. Latham, 'Sir Walter Ralegh's will', Review of English Studies NS 22 (1971), 129-36, at 130.

    30 The MS is at Sherborne, and is printed in full in Letters of Ralech, pp. 381-7.

    31 Hatfield MS 58/51.
    32 Hatfield MS 56/87, dated 1 November 1597.
    33 Letters of Ral(gh, pp. 161-3, at 162.

    34 Ibid., p. 164.

    35 Wernham, Return of theArunadas, pp. 166-7. Letters of Ralegh, pp. 166-8.

    36 Letters of Rnle h, p. 169.

    37 HW, Book 5, Chapter 1, Section 9.

    38 On the Islands Voyage see also Arthur Gorges's account in S. Purchas, Purchas his PiI~rimes (London, 1625), pt 4, pp. 1,938-69.

    39 See 1? E. J. Hammer, Elizabeth's Wars: war, government and society in Tudor Enrland, 15441604 (Basingstoke, 2003), pp. 202-3;Wernham, Return oftheArmadas, pp. 175-6.

    40 Letters of Rale,Eh, p. 173.

    41 Hatfield MS 55/88.
    42 Hatfield MS 55/108.

    43 Hatfield MS 56/98; Letters of Ralegh, p. 171.

    44 Letters of kale,Eh, p. 152.
    45 P. E. J. Hamner, The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: the political career of Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex, 1585-1597 (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 385-6.

    46 Ibid., p. 403.

    47 Hatfield MS 351 (HMC, Salisbury, xxiii, p. 21-2).

    48 P Croft, 'Rex pacificus: Robert Cecil and the 1604 peace with Spain', in G. Burgess et at. (eds), The Accession of James I: historical and cultural consequences (Basingstoke, 2006), pp. 140-54.

    49 On the wider debate over continued hostilities, see A. Gajda, 'Debating war and peace in late Elizabethan England', Historical Journal 52 (2009), 851-78.

    50 W. A. Wallace, John White, Thomas Harriot and Walter Ralegh in Ireland (London, 1985), p. 22.

    51 See Letters of Chamberlain, i, pp. 34, 40.

    52 HMC, Dc L'Isle and Dudley, ii, p. 332. In July 1599, Sir Charles Danvers in London suggests to his friend and patron the Earl of Southampton that Ralegh is the 'earnestest suitor' for the vacant Chancellorship of the Duchy, though Sir John Fortescue is doing such a good job as caretaker that the Queen is unlikely to make a swift choice (Hatfield MS 71/104).

    53 'Let Ralegh and Carey prate. They are infamous here for their service.' Gelli Meyrick to Edward Reynolds, [August 1599]. Hatfield MS 179/84.

    54 W. Camden, Annals, or, the Historic of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth (London, 1635), p. 534.

    55 Letters of
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