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Sir Walter Ralegh's Legacy: His History Of The World In The Seventeenth Century., Steven Preston Carriger May 2007

Sir Walter Ralegh's Legacy: His History Of The World In The Seventeenth Century., Steven Preston Carriger

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This thesis looks at the life and works of Sir Walter Ralegh. Specifically, this study will look at Ralegh's History of the World and its influence on two men, Oliver Cromwell and James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. This study will look at the impact this work may have had on the lives of these two men through their letters and public lives.

Necessarily this study will look mainly at the primary sources of these men including the letters and speeches of Cromwell as compiled by Thomas Carlyle and the Memoirs of Montrose, compiled and edited by Mark Napier. Obviously Ralegh's …