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Excerpt from Raleghana, Vol. 3: Remarks on the Ancestry of Sir Walter Ralegh
These thoughts have been forcibly impressed on the mind of the writer, in his endeavour to investigate the ancestry of Sir Walter Ralegh, owing to the circumstance of these objectionable elements (not the sole ones) being present in so many of the accepted authorities on the subject. Ruskin asserted, It is not easy to be accurate in an account of anything, however simple. How much more difficult, then, to construct a pedigree, where facts, tradition, imagination, and carelessness (if nothing worse), are so much interwoven to produce a continuous line of descent
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