P. 324, l. 10 from bottom, _for_ '"I know"--or, according to the Apology, "I know not"' _read_ '"I know," according to the Apology--or, according to another account, "I know not."' P. 335, ll. 11-14, _omit_ sentence 'Mr.... mob,' which, entirely in error, attributes to Dr. Gardiner the opinion of another writer. P. 373, l. 9 from bottom, _for_ 'God hold me and' _read_ 'God hold me in.' P. 398, l. 22, _omit_ 'and a fund of materials not yet properly manufactured.' _SIR WALTER RALEGH._ CHAPTER I. GENEALOGY. The Raleghs were an old Devonshire family, once wealthy and distinguished. At one period five knightly branches of the house flourished simultaneously in the county. In the reign of Henry III a Ralegh had been Justiciary. There were genealogists who, though others doubted, traced the stock to the Plantagenets through an intermarriage with the Clares. The Clare arms have been found quartered with those of Ralegh on a Ralegh pew in East Budleigh church. The family had held Smallridge, near Axminster, from before the Conquest. Since the reign of Edward III it had been seated on the edge of Dartmoor, at Fardell. There it built a picturesque mansion and chapel. The Raleghs of Fardell were, writes Polwhele, 'esteemed ancient gentlemen.' But the rapacious lawyers of Henry VII had discovered some occasion against Wimund Ralegh, the head of the family in their day. They thought him worth the levy of a heavy fine for misprision of treason; and he had to sell Smallridge. [Sidenote: _Ralegh's Parents._] [Sidenote: _Their Character._]