Under the wild skies of Dartmoor stood a dark Inn of long-standing.
Within the old walls and beneath the twisting beams, candles flickered and guttered, casting long shadows across the tables.
The landlord poured ale from a barrel beside a huge granite fireplace.
Elizabeth I was dead and heir, King James I, had issued a warrant for the arrest of the late Queen’s Favourite.
England’s most famous explorer was once again a wanted man.
A charge of treason was at his heels and the hounds had been loosed.
They were on the hunt.
It was the evening of July 19th in the year 1603 and Sir Walter Raleigh sat quietly in a corner of the Old Exeter Inn.
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