A Step Up for Captain Raleigh

Seventeenth-century historian Thomas Fuller told how Walter Raleigh had left a message on Queen Elizabeth I’s window testing her likely reception of him, and received a teasing reply beneath encouraging him to try his luck. He had already come favourably to her notice, when the well-dressed soldier sacrificed a cloak to save Elizabeth wetting her feet in a puddle.

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