...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor. — Raleigh Trevelyan, Sir Walter Raleigh : Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethian Age
...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor. — Raleigh Trevelyan, Sir Walter Raleigh : Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethian Age
...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor. — Raleigh Trevelyan, Sir Walter Raleigh : Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethian Age
...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor. — Raleigh Trevelyan, Sir Walter Raleigh : Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethian Age
...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor. — Raleigh Trevelyan, Sir Walter Raleigh : Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethian Age
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...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.

— Raleigh Trevelyan, Sir Walter Raleigh : Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethian Age
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