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Life of Sir Walter Raleigh
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Description	Founded on original documents, some of them never before published, including a view of the most important transactions in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I; sketches of Burleigh, Essex, secretary Cecil, Sidney, Spenser, and other eminent contemporaries; with a vindication of his character from the attacks of Hume and other writers by Patrick Fraser Tytler.
Shelfmark	ABS.1.76.313
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1832 [Date published]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Biographies (literary works) Courtiers Explorers Authors
Person / organisation:	James VI, King of Scotland, 1566-1625 [Associated name] Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) [Printer] Tytler, Patrick Fraser, 1791-1849 [Author] Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) [Printer] Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618 [Subject of text] Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 [Associated name]
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