Dangerous times no matter which side of the religious divide you fell even for folk heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh, courtier, soldier, poet.

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Sir Walter Raleigh had lived there briefly in the late sixteenth century.

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Middle Temple hosted the first performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 1602, and in 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh received a charter here from Elizabeth I to establish the colony of Virginia in North America.

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For those who like to combine their celebrity spotting with their spooking, be on the lookout for the ghosts of Thomas Becket, the young Dukes of York, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Jane Grey, a bear and Queen Anne Boleyn.

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