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Sir Walter Ralegh

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Noun1.Sir Walter Ralegh - English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize VirginiaSir Walter Ralegh - English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)


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9781906359188 Sir Walter Ralegh in Ireland, (reprint, 1883) Hennessy, Sir John Pope.
ASK any schoolboy what he knows about Sir Walter Ralegh and you are bound to get two answers - he was the man who covered a puddle with his cloak so that good Queen Bess could walk dry shod,and he brought tobacco to England.
Beer discusses various appearances in manuscript of 'Even such is time' and Ralegh's letter to his wife in Sir Walter Ralegh and His Readers in the Seventeenth Century: Speaking to the People (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), pp.
 
 
 
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