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; family lease of fish tithes, 2; latest mention of, his age, 16 Raleigh, Sir Walter, Lives of, v.; correspondence of, v.; bibliography by Dr. Brushfield, vi.; love of birthplace, 1; connections and parentage, 1; earliest record of, 2; education and career at Oxford, 3; convicted of assault, 7; goes to Ireland, 9; with Spenser, 10, 43, 48, 49; character whilst in Ireland, 14; pecuniary position, 16, 30, 34, 42, 116, 126, 129, 133, 141, 162, 189, 190, 194; his person in 1582, 20; mother wit and audacious alacrity, 22; success as a courtier, 23; Royal gifts to, 24, 25; continues Sir H. Gilbert's efforts, 28; and Virginia, 29, 37, 41, 125; granted licence to export woollen broad-cloths, their nature and value, 29, 30; resides at Durham House, 31; receives knighthood, 31; successful expedition to Azores, 33; elegy on Sir Philip Sidney, _ib._; experience as an Irish colonist, 34; zenith of personal success, 35; part in fighting Armada, 37; privateering expeditions, their excuse, 40, 41; forced return to Ireland, 42; his poem of _Cynthia_, 45; developes his Irish estates, 47; introduces the potato, 48; and Puritans, his toleration, 50; _Report on Grenville's fight in the_ '_Revenge_,' 51; obtains Sherborne Castle, 52-53; clandestine relations with Elizabeth Throckmorton, 55; embroilment between Queen and Mrs. Throckmorton, 55-57; confined in the Tower, 57; failure in health, 59, 63, 110, 114, 168, 187, 199, 200; released to quell disturbance in Devon, 61; his popularity in Devon, 61; marriage with E. Throckmorton, 63; eagerness for service, 64; attracted to Guiana, 66; and Guiana gold, 75-77; publishes _Discovery of Guiana_, 84; merit as a writer of travel, 85; his _Of the Voyage for Guiana_, 87; naval skill first fully recognised, 89; taking of Cadiz, brilliant triumph for, 91; his _Relation of the Action in Cadiz Harbour_, 92; details of his Cadiz command, 92-99; wounded in the leg, 98; preparation for third Guiana expedition, 101; lauded by literary classes on return from Cadiz, 102; intimacy with Cecil and Brooke family, 102; exertions to provoke second attack on Spain, 105; sails with fleet to attack Azores; success at Fayal, which provokes Essex, 105-109; only nominally in Queen's favour, 111; his _Prerogative of Parliament_, 112, 183-184; seeks various
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