I wrote to Mr. Prideaux to move you for the purchase of Hayes[LXXIX.],
a farme sometime in my father's possession. I will most willingly give
whatsoever in your conscience you shall deeme it worth, and if at any
time you shall have occasion to use me, you shall find me a thankefull
friend to you and yours. I am resolved, if I cannot entreat you, to
build at Colliton; but for the naturall disposition I have to that
place, being borne in that house, I had rather seate myselfe there
then any where els; I take my leave, readie to countervaile all your
courtesies to the utter of my power.
_Court, the xxvi
of July, 1584._
Your very willing friend,
In all I shall be able,
WALTER RALEGH.
[LXXIX.] ☞ Hayes is in the parish of East Budleigh. He was not buryed
at Exeter by his father and mother, nor at Shirburne in Dorset; at
either of which places he desired his wife (in his letter the night
before he dyed) to be interred. His father had 80 yeares in this farme
of Hayes, and wrote 'esquier.'
<_Addenda._>
<_His last lines._>
[847]Even such is tyme, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joyes, and all we have,
And payes us but with age and dust.
Within the darke and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our wayes,
Shutts up the story of our dayes.
But from which grave and earth and dust
The Lord will rayse me up I trust.
These lines Sir Walter Ralegh wrote in his Bible, the night before he
was beheaded, and desir'd his relations with these words, viz. 'Beg my
dead body, which living is denyed you; and bury it either in Sherburne
or Exeter church.'
<_His burial-place._>
[848]The bishop of Sarum <Seth Ward> saieth that Sir Walter Raleigh
lyes interred in St. Marie's church at Exon, not the cathedral: but
knowes not if any inscription or monument be for him.
[849]<James Harrington> lyes buried in the chancell of St. Margarite's
church at Westminster, the next grave to the illustrious Sir Walter
Raleigh, under the south side of the altar where the priest stands.
Sir Walter Raleigh hath neither stone nor inscription. Mr. Ashmole was
the first told me of Sir Walter Raleigh. His son[850] was buryed since
the king's restauration in his father's grave.
<_MS. account of his trial._>
[851]I am promised the _very originall_ examination of Sir Walter
Ralegh, in the Tower, by Lord Chancellor Bacon, George Abbot
(archbishop of Canterbury), and Sir Edward Coke, under their owne
hands, to insert in my booke.
<_His 'History of the World.'_>
[852]An attorney's father (that did my businesse in Herefordshire,
before I sold it[853]) maryed Dr. <Robert> Burhill's widdowe. She sayd
that he <Burhill> was a great favourite of Sir Walter Ralegh's (and, I
thinke, had been his chaplayne): but all or the greatest part of the
drudgery of his booke, for criticismes, chronology, and reading of
Greeke and Hebrew authors, was performed by him for Sir Walter Ralegh,
whose picture my friend haz as part of the Doctor's goods.
=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.
=Walter Raleigh=, grandson of Sir Walter (16---1663).
[859]Sir Walter Ralegh, _m._ ...
|
Carew Ralegh, _m._ ... lady Ashley[860]; but he had a
of ... in com. | former wife: but by which wife he had
Surrey, esq. | the issue Mr. Thomas Mariet knowes not.
|
Sir Walter Raleigh.
|
+---------------+--------+----------------------+
| | |
1. ..., _m._ ... Wilks. 2. ..., _m._ Sir John 3. ..., _m._ John Knight of
Elowys. Barwick Green
in Warwickshire.
He was knighted[861] by king Charles II at the same time when Sir
Thomas Overbury was, and some wished that they might both have better
fortunes than the other Sir Walter Ralegh and the other Sir Thomas
Overbury. So you see Sir John Elowys married a daughter and co-heire of
Sir Walter Raleigh.
=... Ralphson= (---- -1683/4).
[862]Mr. ... Ralphson, a nonconformist, was buried in London at ...,
March 14th, 1683/4; above a 1000 persons were at his funerall.
_Note._