Raleigh's romance, rivals and venture at roanoke

From: Express & Echo (Exeter UK) | Date: November 5, 2007 | Copyright information

During Raleigh's period in favour with Elizabeth I, among the gifts she showered him with was Durham House, a Thames- side mansion in London's Strand.

There, he encouraged influential friends to invest in another plan his half-brother Sir Humphrey Gilbert had to colonise North America.

In 1580, to attract finance, Sir Humphrey offered huge hypothetical stakes of land, including three million acres to the poet Sir Philip Sidney.

Walter Raleigh risked pounds2,000 in the venture, but initially the Queen was sceptical, saying that Gilbert was "a man not noted for good hap by sea". However, ...

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