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It can hardly be said that Elizabeth’s treatment of Ralegh was vindictive; he was debarred from her presence, and that meant not exercising his office as Captain of the Guard. But he was left in possession of his important public offices in the West Country: too useful a servant of the state to forgo his services.
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© 1962 A. L. Rowse
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Rowse, A.L. (1962). The Distractions of Disgrace. In: Ralegh and the Throckmortons. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81625-5_10
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