Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 84: what you’re looking at

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78 Roanoke of Roanoke Halt. his youth, more particularly in that last dis- astrous enterprise undertaken by the gallant Sir Walter Raleigh, which failed so lamentably through the treachery, it hath been averred, of his own royal master, and which cost that ill-starred gentleman his head. While Charles the First ruled the realm he had occupied some small post, I know not what, about the court, and siding with that monarch in his vain struggle against the will of his people had shared his misfortunes and defeat. It was at this time, when the king had fallen to rise no more, that he had come to Roanoke with his daughter, then eleven years of age, and had there resided under the appearance of a simple yeoman. At the restoration he had returned to court, though more than sixty years of age, and had in all probability died there in due time but that the love of desperate deeds had not burned out within him, and he was per- suaded by the notorious ruffian Blood to take part in his well-nigh successful attempt to hang the Duke of Ormond on Tyburn tree ; and though the chief offender was afterwards pardoned not only that, but even his mur- comichbooks.com