[8] He had been created a peer by Raleigh’s preferment, and was the first to receive a title in America.
[9] See White’s personal account of his failure in Hakluyt’s Voyages.
[10] “The report of an English spy at Madrid to Lord Burleigh certifies that about this period a young man calling himself Arthur Dudley was then resident at the court of Spain, who had given it out that he was the offspring of Queen Elizabeth by the Earl of Leicester.”—Strickland’s Lives of the Queens of England. See also Ellis’s Letters, Second Series; and Doctor Lingard’s translation from the Records of Simanca.
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