Pipestaves, exporting of, from Munster,

ii. 81, 84, 418.

Pizarro, Gonzalo, expedition of, in
search of 'El Dorado,' i. 165.
Plessington, John, i. 622.

Plots and counterplots of 1602-1603,
ii. 436-482.

Plymouth, Ralegh's views as to the im-
portance of, i. 269.

Pole, Sir William, on John Hooker's
account of the Ralegh alliances and
pedigree, i. 5.

Ponte, Isabel, or Elizabeth de, second
wife of Walter Ralegh of Fardell,
i. 12.

Pope, Marshal of the Admiralty, ii.

Powell, Thomas, a captive in Barbary,
1581, ii. 31.

Prerogative of Parliaments, i. 552.
Prest, Agnes, a martyr for Protestantism
at Exeter, visit of Katherine Ralegh
to, i. 19.

Preston, Sir Amias, challenge of com-
bat given to Ralegh by, i. 419; ii.
312, 389.

Privateering adventures, i. 114, 149,
153, 216, 221, 229, 243; ii. 193,
246.
Privy Council, proceedings in relation
to the charges against Ralegh for the
capture of St. Thomas, and other
alleged offences, arising out of the
expedition to Guiana, 677-680; in-
structions to Wollaston and to Cham-
pion, respecting the custody of Lady
Ralegh, 685.

Prizes, prize-takers, and prize-money,
under Queen Elizabeth, i. 114, 149,
153, 216, 221, 229, 243.
Prugs, John, ii. 144.

Q.

Quesada, Francisco de, account of vic-
tory at Cadiz by, ii. 134.
Quesada, Hernan Perez de, expedition

of, in search of 'El Dorado,' i. 165.

Quito, entrance of the survivors of
Gonzalo Pizarro's Guiana expedition
into, i. 166.

R.

Radford, Arthur, is recommended by
Lady Ralegh to Sir R. Cecil, ii.
399.

Rakele, Ralegh's treatment of the Irish
insurgents at, i. 38.

Ralegh families of Devonshire, i. 7.
Ralegh, of Nettlecombe in Somerset,
pedigree of the family of, i. 6.
Ralegh, in Virginia, town of, i. 90.
Ralegh, Sir Carew, i. 467.
Ralegh, Carew, son of Sir Walter
Ralegh, i. 475, ii. 352; entreaty to
the King for his father's pardon,
488.

Ralegh, Elizabeth, Lady, wife of Sir
W. Ralegh, marriage, i. 135; paren-
tage, 136; notice of a family por-
trait of her, 137; her trust in Sir
Robert Cecil, 159; Henry Howard's
assertion of her intimacy with Lady
Shrewsbury in 1602, 311; Countess
of Beaumont's statement of a con-
versation with her about the ex-
amination of Ralegh, 379; letter
about the Wine l'atent, 458, ii.
408; her residence at Sherborne, in
1605, i. 472; has an annuity from the
Exchequer, 477, 480; payment to
her, for forbearance of a sum of £500
due to her from the King, 480; re-
moval of, from the Tower, 483; sells
an estate at Mitcham, in Surrey, in
aid of the preparations for the Guiana
expedition, 567; supplies Captain
Pennington to free his ship from de-
tention at the Isle of Wight, 600;
her imprisonment in her house at
Broad Street, 684; her last interview
with Sir Walter, 696; letter to Sir
N. Carew respecting the burial of
her husband, 697; buries him in St.
Margaret's chancel, 706.

Letters of, ii. 397-414. [See their
Table of Contents, ii. xxxi., xxxii.];
letter of farewell and consolation to
her from Ralegh, on the eve of his
expected execution, Dec. 1603, 284;
Ralegh asks for leave for her re-
turn to the Tower, 328; Ralegh's
letter of farewell to her, July 1603,
383.

Ralegh, George, nephew of Sir Walter,

i. 567; succeeds Sir Warham St.
Leger, and has the command-in-chief
of the expedition up the Orinoco,
615; the Admiral's instructions to
him, 616; sails on 10th Dec., ar-
rives at Yaya (‘Assapana' of Ra-
legh), 619; Jan. 1, 1618, makes Point
Araya, 620; and lands the men for
the expedition to the mine on same
day, .; is attacked at nightfall by
Spanish soldiers, and driven into St.
Thomas, 621, ii. 352; he ascends
the Orinoco for its exploration, i.
636; and rejoins Sir Walter at Tri-
nidad, 638.

Ralegh, Katherine, mother of Sir Wal-

ter, anecdote of the visit of, to Agnes
Prest, one of the Marian martyrs at
Exeter, i. 19, 76.

Ralegh, Walter, of Fardell, marriage

of, i. II; anecdote of his imprison-
ment in St. Sidwell's church, Exeter,
during the rising of the West, 15.
Ralegh, Sir Walter, pedigree and ge-
nealogy of, i. 2; books dedicated to
him, 3, 88, 275; his residence at
Oriel, 24; campaigns in France, 25;
is engaged in the retreat under Charles
Lewis of Nassau, after the battle of
Moncontour, ib.; his alleged service
in the Netherlands, under Sir John
Norreys, 33; was he author of the
verses prefixed to Gascoigne's Steele
Glasse, in 1576? 36; serves in the wars
of Ireland, 37; is joined in commis-
sion with Sir W. St. Leger for the
trial of James of Desmond. 38; lays
an ambush for Irish rebels at Rakele,
ib.; attends the Earl of Leicester to
the Netherlands, and is present at the
'joyful entrance' of the Duke of
Anjou into Antwerp, 43; brings
despatches from Cork, 46; Council
warrant for payment to him, for service
in Ireland, 47; Naunton's account of
his dispute with Lord Grey, 49;
is at Court, 51; Timias and Bel-
phoebe, 56; wishes to be bearer of
despatches to Leicester, 61; collects
Devonshire miners for the Nether-
land service, 62; obtains licences for
exportation of woollen broad-cloths,
ib.; obtains grant of the farm of
wines, 63; leases it to Richard Browne,
b.; licenses Keymer to sell wines at
Cambridge, ib.; correspondence with
the University and with Lord Burgh-
ley thereon, 64; suits with Browne on
the wine patent, 65; correspondence

with Solicitor-General Egerton, 65;
and minute of Privy Council thereon,
ib.; succeeds Francis, Earl of Bel-
ford, in the wardenship of the Stan-
naries, 67; succeeds Sir Christopher
Hutton, as Captain of the Queen's
Guard, .; Babington seeks his in-
tervention with the Queen, 69; grant
to Ralegh of Babington's estates, 70;
his rivalries with Essex, 71; the
Scene at North Hall during a
royal progress, 72; his first in-
terview with Arabella Stuart, 74;
his presence at Dartmouth, 79; is
about to sail with Sir H. Gilbert for
Newfoundland, but prohibited by the
Privy Council, tb.; Captain Hayes'
account of his venturing to sea, de-
spite the prohibition, and fighting
with the Spaniards, 81; resumes the
enterprise of Sir H. Gilbert, and
obtains a royal charter for creating
a fellowship for discovery of North-
west Passage, 84; founds the first
colony of Virginia at Roanoke, 86;
equips a new expedition, and gives
the command of it to Sir Richard
Grenville, 87; founds the town of
Ralegh in Virginia, 90; receives a
grant of a tract of land of 12,000
acres in the counties of Cork, Water-
ford, and Tipperary, 95; has a grant
of the castle and manor of Lismore,
96; builds Lismore Castle, h.; es-
tablishes a commerce in Irish timber,
97 has a lawsuit with Wingfield
about a castle in Munster, 98; com-
plains of the dealings of Sir William
Fitzwilliam with the tenantry of the
Ralegh estate in Munster, 98; opinion
of Ralegh on the danger of a new re-
bellion, 99; his commentary on head.
money for the killing of rebels, 105,
ii. 198; planting of the potato in
Ireland, i. 106; service against the
Spanish Armada, 111; commentary
on the tactics of Howard, 112; his
reprisals on Spaniards, 115, 116; suit
of Reynardson and others against
him, 114; service in the Portugal
expedition under Drake, 115; is
directed by Council to enforce the
restoration of certain Dutch ships,
which had been taken into Dart-
mouth, 117; supports a suit of Lord
Pembroke for grant of the New
Forest, 119; retirement from Court,
ib.; his relations with Essex, 120;
visits Spenser at Kilcolman Castle,

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120; their conversation and its results,
121; Ralegh's advice concerning the
Faery Queen," 123; Spenser ad-
dresses Ralegh in prose and verse,
126; parallels in the fortunes of
Ralegh and Spenser, 127; services
rendered by him to Spenser, 131;
returns to Court in 1591, 132; al-
leged combination with Essex in re-
lief to persecuted Puritans, ib.; his
zealous efforts on behalf of John
Udall, 133; parallelisms in fortune
of Essex and Ralegh, 135; his court-
ship and marriage of Elizabeth Throg-
morton, ib.; imprisonment in the
Tower, 140; scene there with Sir G.
Carew, 141; his correspondence from
thence with Cecil, 142; first appear
ance as an author, in his Report of the
Truth of the Fight at the Isles of the
Azores, 144; narrates the death of
Grenville at the Azores, ib.; Report
of the Service at Sea performed by
the Fleet of Sir Walter Ralegh,
149; intervention of Hawkins on his
behalf, and his letters to Burghley,
151; release from the Tower, under
charge of a keeper, 152; his journey
to Dartmouth, and reception there,
154; his meeting with his brother,
Sir J. Gilbert, ib.; his account of his
treatment in the partition of the
spoils of the Great Carrack of 1592,
157; his first ponderings about the
fabled 'El Dorado,' 159; residence at
Sherborne, 160; his love of garden-
ing, ib.; and of the enjoyments of a
country retirement, 161; his prepa-
rations for the first expedition to
Guiana, 172; sends Captain Whid-
don to Trinidad, ib.; and himself
sets sail from Plymouth, 173; con-
versations of, at Trinidad, with Antonio
de Berreo, 170, 174, 176; captures a
Spanish ship near the Canary Islands,
173; attacks and captures the Spanish
town of St. Joseph, and liberates five
Indian caciques, who had been tortured
by Berreo, 174; his word-pictures of
the scenery of Guiana, 181; account
of the metallic ores of Guiana, and
of their assay, 189, 196; and of the
furious inundations of the Guiana
rivers, 183, 186; his voyage down the
Brazo Macareo and Cano Macareo
to Point Hicacos, 185; notice of
his conversations with Topiawari on
the productions, climate, geography,
and inhabitants of Guiana, 187, 190,

192; causes the ores of Guiana to
be assayed by London goldsmiths and
refiners, 189; the voyage homeward,
195; calls at Cumana, St. Mary's,
and Rio de la Hacha, ib.; reaches
England, ib.; despatches Keymis on
a second voyage to Guiana, 196;
urgent request for his services in the
expedition against Cadiz, 206; his
delay to join the fleet and its causes,
207; has to press mariners in Kent,
ib.; is detached from the main body
of the fleet, at the head of his own
squadron and that of the Nether-
lands, in order to a blockade of Cadiz
Harbour, 209; on his return, protests
against the resolve to attack the town
before attacking the Spanish fleet,
210; his successive remonstrances with
Essex and with the Lord Admiral,
211; writes to the Lord Admiral as
to the best order of battle, ib.; is
chosen to head the attack, ib.; leads
the van of the English fleet into Cadiz
harbour, 212; captures the St.
Philip and the St. Matteo, 216; is
severely wounded, ib.; but causes
himself to be carried in a litter to the
land-fight, ib.; his despatch to Secre-
tary Cecil on the gallantry of Essex,
217; brings the first authentic details
of the Cadiz victory to England, ib.;
is still excluded from Court, 225; re-
appears at Court, 226; resumes the
personal command of the Queen's
Guard, ib.; frequent conferences be-
tween him, Essex, and Sir R. Cecil,
227; draws up a State paper on the
defence of the English coasts, 231;
acts, with Essex, as purveyor and
contractor for the equipment of the
fleet newly prepared against Spain,
232; commands, as Rear-Admiral,
a squadron in the 'Islands' Voyage,'
233; his account of the great storm
of July, 234; sends a message to the
Lord General Essex, 237; and re-
joins the other squadron at Flores,
ib.; the scene in the flag-ship, 238;
particulars of the capture of Fayal,
239; his estimate of the strength and
weakness of Spain, 245; extent and
variety of his opposition to Spanish
policy, 246; his intervention to heal
the quarrel between Essex and Not-
tingham, 250; renewed conferences
between Ralegh, Essex, and Cecil,
251; incident in the Presence Cham-
ber during a game of Primero, 251;

doubtful allegation of an offer to him
of the government of Ireland, 253;
renewal of Essex's ill-will to him,
254; allegation by Essex of a plot by
Ralegh and Cobham to kill the Earl
after his return from Ireland, 255;
Blount's attempt to assassinate him
on the Thames, 257; his entreaty
for Ralegh's forgiveness, and the as-
surance of it, 258; Ralegh's counsel
to Sir Robert Cecil on the treatment
of Essex, in 1600, 259, ii. 213-
223; tradition of his sadness after
witnessing the execution of Essex,
i. 260; is returned to Parliament as
knight of shire for Devon, 268;
parliamentary labours of, ib.; his
speeches on the power and resources
of Spain, 269; on subsidies and on
the incidence of taxation, 270; on
compulsory church-going, 272; on
the Tillage and Hemp Acts, ib. ;
on tillage and on a free trade in
corn, ib.; on the tin mines of Corn-
wall, and on other monopolies, 273;
advocates a free trade in corn, ib.;
his administration of the Stannaries
and of the Duchy of Cornwall,
273, 276; attends the Duke of Biron
and his train in London and at
Basing, 277; causes copies to be made
by one of his servants of a tract on
the Succession, entitled Reasons why
the King of Scots is unacceptable to
the People of England, 291; ad-
dresses to Elizabeth a discourse "In
defence of the Queen's not nomina-
ting a Successor," 295; proofs, in the
"Secret Correspondence," that James'
mind was poisoned against Ralegh
rather by H. Howard than by Cecil,
304; his counsel to Cecil on the
Spanish invasion of Ireland, 320;
his opinion as to the giving of head-
money for the killing of Irish rebels,
321; his advice to Queen Elizabeth
on the treatment of Cormac Mac-
Dermod, 323; conference with Len-
nox, 326; conversation with Cecil on
the mission of Lennox, and on what
had passed between them, 327; his
meeting with Sully at Dover, 330;
his view of the relations between
England and France, 331; joint-stock
privateering adventure with Cecil and
others, 333; alleged conversations
between Watson and G. Brooke
about the supposed designs and
plots of Ralegh, 353; alleged con-

ference between Lord Grey and
Ralegh at Cobham House, 353; in-
timacy, and frequent conferences, be-
tween Ralegh and Cobham, 359;
journeys into Northamptonshire to
meet King James, accompanied by
Sir R. Crosse, 362; meets the King
at Burghley, ib.; Secretary Lake's
account of his reception, 363; is
summoned to the Council Chamber,
and informed of the King's pleasure
that the office of Captain of the
Guard should thenceforth be dis-
charged by Sir Thomas Erskine, ib.;
has a new warrant, by letters patent,
for the government of Jersey, 364; his
interview with James at Beddington
Park, ib.; presents the King with a
Discourse touching a War with Spain,
365; writes to Cobham about the
arrest of Copley in Sussex, ib. ; at-
tends the Court at Windsor, 366;
is summoned from the terrace to the
Council Chamber, ib.; denies all
knowledge of a plot to surprise the
King's person, or of any plot con-
trived between Cobham and Aren-
bergh, 367; writes afterwards to the
Lords of the Council to suggest that
Matthew La Renzi had probably been
an agent of some communication
between Cobham and Arenbergh,
368; Ralegh's subsequent committal
to the Tower, 373; Cecil's account
of his attempt, or alleged attempt,
to commit suicide, 375; Beaumont's
account and comment, 377; Beau-
mont asserts, on the authority of Lady
Ralegh, that Ralegh was examined
about his visits to the Marquis of
Rosny, 379; his indictment at Staines,
383; erasures on the jury panel, 385,
note; is deprived of the Lieutenancy
of Cornwall, 386; notices of the
character and authority of the MS.
reports of his trial at Winchester, 385,
note; goes from London to Win-
chester to take his trial, 386; opening
of the indictment, 387; trial, 358-
436; his account of the character of
Cobham, 397; and of the reasons of
their frequent meetings in the spring
of 1603, 401; his appeal to the
jury on the condition and policy of
Spain, 398; demand for Cobham's
production before him, face to face,
407, 425, 426; Chief Justice Popham's
answer, 409; Lord Cecil's interpo-
sition on that point, 426; Ralegh

produces Cobham's second letter of
retractation, 435; his speech after the
verdict of the jury, ib.; his message
to the King, ib.; Count Beaumont's
account of the King's long hesitation
as to the execution of the sentence,
442; and of the intercession of Lords
of the Council, 443; and of that of
the Spanish Ambassador, 445; his
own eager suit for life unworthy of
him, 446; witnesses the mock-execu-
tion scene of the 10th of Dec. 449;
Beaumont's account of his beha-
viour there, 450; is succeeded in
the Wine Patent by Lord Notting-
ham, 458; is befriended by Lord
Cecil, 461; obtains the assignment
of a lease of the manor of Sherborne
and its dependencies, 463; retro-
spective account of his endeavours to
convert the lease of Sherborne into
an estate of inheritance, ib.; convey-
ance of his landed estates in trust
for his son Walter, 465; execution
of a new conveyance of his landed
estates in trust for his son Walter
Ralegh, 467; memorials of him at
Sherborne, 478; grants an annuity to
Walter Gawen, 480; returns to the
Tower, 482; is removed to the prison
of the Fleet, and why, 483; decline
of his health during his imprisonment
in the Tower, 491; is befriended by
Prince Henry, who makes repeated
intercessions for his pardon, 492; his
Discourses on the Savoyan, or Spanish,
propositions of 1611, for a double
marriage with England, 497; his
Discourse of the Invention of Ships,
504; his Observations concerning the
Royal Navy and Sea Service, ib. ; the
lost treatise of the Art of War by Sea,
505; his interview with Lord Salis-
bury, 502; and with Lord Northamp-
ton and other members of the Privy
Council, ib.; is put for several months
under close imprisonment, 503; sends
an elixir to Prince Henry in the
Prince's last illness, 511; his unad-
vised expression about its potency,
and Queen Anne's inference there-
from, 512; the History of the World,
where was it written? 488; its design
and plan, 517; the History of the
Four Monarchies of Antiquity in-
tended as an Introduction to a
History of England, 518; its new
portraits in old dresses, 523; Ra-
legh's treatment in it of ques-

tions of morals, 538; probable fal-
sity of Winstanley's story as to the
cause of its remaining incomplete,
541; the helpers in the work, and
the origin of Mr. Isaac Disraeli's
'Discoveries of its Secret History,'
543; Ralegh's other pursuits during
his imprisonment in the Tower, 548;
the statements of Oldys and of Dis-
raeli as to the assistance rendered to
Ralegh in the composition of the
History of the World, 543-548; the
Prerogative of Parliaments, and the
occasion of its composition, 552;
his proffers of service to the King of
Denmark, and to the French Hugue-
nots, 560; negotiations for his libera-
tion from the Tower with Sir George
Villiers and his relatives, 562; Coun-
cil Minute on the liberation, 563; he
makes a tour of London, 564; nego-
tiations of the Ambassador of Savoy
with Secretary Winwood and King
James I. respecting a projected expe-
dition, under the command of Ralegh,
for an attack on Genoa, 576, 579-
584; is obliged to furnish the King
with minute particulars of the plan
and projected route of the expedition
to Guiana, which are communicated
to Gondomar, 588; his alleged con-
versations with Lord Keeper Bacon
about the terms and legal effect of
his commission for Guiana, 589;
and his bravado about an alleged
purpose to attack the Spanish
Plate fleet, if the mine should fail,
591; Count des Marêts' account of a
visit to Ralegh, on board the ship
Destiny, 592; survey of his fleet in
the Thames, made by officers of the
English Admiralty, and a copy of it
given to Gondomar, 597; second visit
of Des Marêts, and allegation of Ra-
legh's proffer of service to the King of
France, 595; receives, from Sylvanus
Scory, a poetical remonstrance
against his departure from England,
598; his fleet sails from the Thames,
599; his orders to the fleet, issued
at Plymouth, 600; the fleet sails from
Plymouth, ib.; meets with a gale
near Scilly, 601; its long detention
at Cork, ib. ; his intervention there
in suits between Pine and Lord Boyle,
ib.; departure from Cork, 602; ex-
tracts from the journal of his voyage,
604, 610, 612, 616; gives chase to
four French vessels near Cape St.