The King's Quinto: The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) [Anglais] [Relié]

The King's Quinto is told through the voice of John Talbot, a real life servant to Sir Walter Raleigh. After Sir Walter Raleigh's arrest in 1603, after the death of Queen Elizabeth I, Raleigh is accused of being involved in the Spanish Bye and Main Plot which was a plot to deprive King James I of his throne and an attempt to place Lady Arabella Stuart on the throne in his place. Raleigh is accused of trying to cause the kidnap of King James I and to make him tolerate the Roman Catholic religion. 16 people were involved in the Spanish Bye and Main Plot and of the 16 conspirators, several were hung drawn and quartered including two priests, Watson and Clark. Raleigh was found guilty of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Tower of London and was held prisoner in the Bloody Tower from 1603 until 1617. Raleigh was released from prison in 1617 in order that he might lead an expedition to Guiana in search of gold, which he said he had located during his earlier expedition to Guiana in 1596. Raleigh returned without the gold and was again imprisoned in the Tower of London. He was executed on 29th October 1618. The book includes Raleigh's trial at Winchester in 1603, his speech on the scaffold, his apology to King James I of England and various of his letters (one of which was a letter written to the King's Secretary, Winwood wherein Raleigh explains that he was betrayed to the Spaniards before he set sail to Guiana, that his son was murdered and that Lawrence Kemys committed suicide on board ship. Raleigh explained that his men were ambushed, tied back and back and had their throats cut. The trial and speech are included courtesy of Hampshire Record Office. The book also includes Raleigh's Letters Patent to Discover Guiana issued by King James I of England. Also included in the book is an extract from Raleigh's book, The Great Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana which was a bestseller in 1596 and is included courtesy of The British Library.

The King's Quinto, the Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552(4?) -1618), took 7 years to research and write. The book will include 7 of her pencil portrait drawings, which are Francois Clouet copies of the French Royal family from the Medici period; Clouet's originals are in the Louvre in Paris. Barbara O'Sullivan has also written a collection of short stories, sonnets and poems, and has won several poetry competitions. The book, The King's Quinto was written after Barbara O'Sullivan met the actor Walter Sparrow (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, who played the role of the old blind man Duncan) and Walter Sparrow invited Barbara to write a film script and Walter Sparrow was instrumental in locating a translation of the verbatim account of Sir Walter Raleigh's trial. Walter Sparrow passed away on the 31st May, 2000 and was unaware that Barbara O'Sullivan had found a publisher for this work. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Broché .

Raleigh was also imprisoned in the Tower of London by Queen Elizabeth,
although only for a short period of time. Raleigh was arrested on the 7th
August, 1592 and taken to the Brick Tower, at the Tower of London, after
news of his secret marriage to Elizabeth Throckmorton reached Queen
Elizabeth. Bess had been the Queen's Maid of Honour at Court and after
Raleigh's secret marriage their first son, Damerei Raleigh was born on 29th
March 1592 but appears to have died in infancy. Raleigh was released
during September to quell the riots among the sailors who were looting the
treasure ship, the Matre de Dios, but Bess was held captive until the end
of the year.

Raleigh fought at the Battle of Cadiz in 1596 and was injured in the shin
of his left leg by a canon ball and walked with the aid of a walking stick
thereafter.

The book includes Raleigh's trial at Winchester in 1603, after the death of
Queen Elizabeth, when King James I succeeded to the throne of England.
Raleigh was arrested together with Lawrence Kemys and they were committed
to the Bloody Tower on 14th July, 1603, having been implicated in the
Spanish Bye and Main Plot, which was a plot by 16 men to kidnap King James
I, in an effort to persuade him to tolerate the Roman Catholic religion.
After Raleigh's trial, at which he was found guilty of treason on 13th
December 1603, and sentenced to suffer a traitor's death, and to be hung,
drawn and quartered, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and
Raleigh was imprisoned in December 1603, in the Bloody Tower at the Tower
of London for 13 years. Whilst a prisoner in the Tower, Raleigh wrote the
History of the World down to BC 130, and he was a also a keen scientist and
used to work in a little converted hen house, together with his friend, who
was a also a prisoner, Henry Percy 9th Earl of Northumberland who was
nicknamed "The Wizard Earl" for his interest in science; together they
invented tobacco curing. Percy had been imprisoned in the Martin Tower,
due to his implication in the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, and remained the
King's prisoner for 18 years. The book includes the interrogations of
Henry Percy, by kind permission of the Duke of Northumberland. Also
included in the book are Raleigh's speech on the scaffold, his apology to
King James I of England, and his Letters Patent to discover Guiana for his
second voyage.

Raleigh and Kemys were released by orders of King James I (Mary Queen of
Scots son), on the 17th March, 1617, and Raleigh set off on his second
voyage to Guiana and hoped to mine for gold. Raleigh and his men were
betrayed to the Spaniards before they arrived in Guiana and were ambushed.
Raleigh's eldest son, Wat Raleigh was murdered, and Raleigh was
heartbroken. Lawrence Kemys then committed suicide by stabbing himself.
Many of Raleigh's men were murdered and tied back to back and had their
throats cut by the Spaniards. Raleigh almost certainly knew that if he
returned to England without the gold he would either become the King's
prisoner once more or that he would be executed. Raleigh was committed to
the Wardrobe Tower on 10th August 1618 and was executed on the day of The
Lord Mayor's Show, on 29th October 1618, after the King refused to grant
him a pardon. His body is laid to rest at St. Margaret's Church,
Westminster in the chancel near the altar. Raleigh's head was given to his
son Carew Raleigh, who passed it to his mother, and Lady Raleigh had the
head embalmed and carried it with her in a red leather bag for most of her
life and on her death in 1647, the head passed to her son Carew, who had
the head buried in the Raleigh family vault at a church in West Horsley in
Surrey. The head was still in the vault in 1703 "when it was seen by Sir
John Nicholas, when the grave of his wife Penelope cut into the Raleigh
family vault."

Some of Raleigh's letters to his wife are included in the book, together
with extracts from Sloane MS 1133 courtesy of The British Library, being
Raleigh's account of his Guiana voyage.

The story of the King's Quinto is told through the voice of John Talbot,
Raleigh's real life servant. In this book you will find out what the
Elizabethans ate, wore and how they cleaned their teeth and also what
preparations the Elizabethan women used as make up. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Broché .