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Having been three years in the printing, Ralegh’s History finally appeared in early December 1614. Only weeks after its publication, on 22 December, the work was suppressed by Archbishop Abbott, on royal command. Ralegh’s public voice and its politically challenging message had been silenced by the Stuart state, for the time being at least.
Tell men of high condition, that mannage the estate, their purpose is ambition, their practise onely hate.
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© 1997 Anna R. Beer
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Beer, A.R. (1997). A Dialogue betweene a Counsellor of State and a Justice of peace. In: Sir Walter Ralegh and his Readers in the Seventeenth Century. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371606_3
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