Raleigh's jailer and Guradian of Pocahontas' infant
Raleigh's jailer and Guradian of Pocahontas' infant son.- Stucley (Sir Lewis) To the Kings most Excellent Maiestie. The humble petition and information...touching his owne behaviour in the charge committed unto him, for the bringing up of Sir Walter Raleigh, and the scandalous aspersions cast upon him for the same, first edition, first issue, with drop-head title preceded by original blank leaf A1, woodcut decorations, old marbled boards, rebacked, [STC 23401; Sabin 93235; Church 374A], 4to, Imprinted...by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1618.
⁂ The scarce true separate first issue, issued with a drop-head title not a title-page. Stucley, Vice-Admiral of Devon, guardian of the infant son of the famous Pocahontas, and apparently King's spy, was appointed keeper of Raleigh on the latter's return from the Orinoco. Because of his supposedly unfair conduct, he became hugely unpopular and known as Sir Judas Stucley. He issued this pamphlet in his own defence. He also refers to the old grudge he had against Raleigh for deceiving his father on a voyage to Virginia in 1584. A year after this was published Stucley was convicted of clipping coin and, despite being pardoned by the King, he died a social outcast, raving mad, on the island of Lundy.
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Raleigh's jailer and Guradian of Pocahontas' infant son.- Stucley (Sir Lewis) To the Kings most Excellent Maiestie. The humble petition and information...touching his owne behaviour in the charge committed unto him, for the bringing up of Sir Walter Raleigh, and the scandalous aspersions cast upon him for the same, first edition, first issue, with drop-head title preceded by original blank leaf A1, woodcut decorations, old marbled boards, rebacked, [STC 23401; Sabin 93235; Church 374A], 4to, Imprinted...by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1618.
⁂ The scarce true separate first issue, issued with a drop-head title not a title-page. Stucley, Vice-Admiral of Devon, guardian of the infant son of the famous Pocahontas, and apparently King's spy, was appointed keeper of Raleigh on the latter's return from the Orinoco. Because of his supposedly unfair conduct, he became hugely unpopular and known as Sir Judas Stucley. He issued this pamphlet in his own defence. He also refers to the old grudge he had against Raleigh for deceiving his father on a voyage to Virginia in 1584. A year after this was published Stucley was convicted of clipping coin and, despite being pardoned by the King, he died a social outcast, raving mad, on the island of Lundy.
