Brief Lives, Vol. 2

Chapter 184: Walter Raleigh, son of Sir Walter (1593-1617).

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A collection of concise biographical sketches of contemporaries and earlier figures recorded by an antiquarian observer, combining factual entries—births, offices, publications, and inscriptions—with personal anecdotes, hearsay, heraldic and parish-register notes, bibliographic references, and occasional critical judgments. Entries range from terse records to extended reminiscences, often citing documentary sources or witness statements, and reflect an informal, detail-driven approach aimed at preserving lives, reputations, and local traditions for reference and remembrance.

Walter Raleigh, son of Sir Walter (1593-1617).

[854]Sir Walter Ralegh's eldest son, Walter, by his first wife, was killed in America, as you may find in the Historie of the World, which see.

My cosen Whitney [855] was coetanean with this Walter Ralegh at Oxon. I have now forgot of what house he was of [856]: but I remember he told me that he was a handsome lusty stout fellow, very bold, and apt to affront. Spake Latin very fluently; and was a notable disputent and courser, and would never be out of countenance nor baffeled; fight [857] lustily; and, one time of coursing, putt a turd in the box, and besmeared [858] it about his antagonist's face.