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Sir Walter Raleigh's Trial was held at Winchester Castle in December 1603

Added: (Wed Aug 04 2004)

At Sir Walter Raleigh's trial held at Winchester Castle in 1603, Raleigh was tried before a Jury and convicted of treason. He was sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered on the 13th December 1603. This sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment at the Bloody Tower, Tower of London. Raleigh was held prisoner from December 1603 until 1617, when he was released so that he could undertake his second voyage to Guiana. The verbatim account of Raleigh's trial (1603), his speech on the scaffold at Westminster (29th October, 1618), his Apology to King James I of England (1618) and his Letters Patent to discover Guiana (1617)are included in The King's Quinto: The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) written by Barbara O'Sullivan (ISBN: 1413708285). Also included in the book is information on how the Elizabethans cleaned their teeth, the money they spent, the clothes they wore, the food they ate and the make up the Elizabethan women wore.

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